Belated Arabo-Islamic difference in excess: racialised religious practice under modernity/coloniality in Lebanon
Through an exercise of decolonial listening, this article works with hijab-wearing women in Lebanon, a small Arab-majority confessional country, to voice, conceptualise, and analyse their lived experience within ‘mainstream Lebanese society’. Investigating their ‘social form’, it advances this lived...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2022
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| In: |
Journal of contemporary religion
Year: 2022, Volume: 37, Issue: 2, Pages: 223-242 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Lebanon
/ Head covering
/ Experience
/ Exclusion
/ Othering
/ Rückständigkeit
/ Postcolonialism
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion BJ Islam KBL Near East and North Africa |
| Further subjects: | B
Lebanon
B modernity / (de)coloniality B Islam B social inequalities B dehumanisation B Religious Discrimination |
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Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Summary: | Through an exercise of decolonial listening, this article works with hijab-wearing women in Lebanon, a small Arab-majority confessional country, to voice, conceptualise, and analyse their lived experience within ‘mainstream Lebanese society’. Investigating their ‘social form’, it advances this lived experience as a belated Arabo-Islamic difference in excess, with a ‘wounded habitus’. Accordingly, it argues that a racialisation due to wearing the hijab is experienced through exclusion from citizenry, modernity, and, most violently, humanity. The article thus showcases religion (Islam) as a persistent key nexus of exclusion where imagined national identities, global coloniality, and Empire entwine to enforce a pervasive experience of dehumanising subordination for the erasure of modernity’s (religious, Muslim) Other. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-9419 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of contemporary religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/13537903.2022.2045782 |
