Secular Coexistence in Lebanon
Christians, Muslims and Subjects of Law
Seiten
2023
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
9781399507547 (ISBN)
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
9781399507547 (ISBN)
A study of the coexistence of Muslims and Christians in Lebanon through an investigation of Lebanese law.
A study of the coexistence of Muslims and Christians in Lebanon through an investigation of Lebanese law. The book considers coexistence as an organizing or structuring principle of the modern Lebanese state, and of its legal order. It analyses the kind of legal arrangement that coexistence dictates, and the legal processes that sustain coexistence. It reaches beyond the law to describe or provide an account of coexistence as constitutive of a secular sensibility or form of life, a sensibility or form of life that finds its articulations in specific ways of thinking, doing, and feeling. It describes some of the concepts, practices, and attitudes of coexistence, through which Muslims and Christians in Lebanon are secured a place and secured in place, enabled and constrained to make legible their ‘religious’ difference and distinctiveness through marriage and its consequences (the family), and to keep in check, restrain, or contain their ‘religious’ passions. It proposes that the coexistence of Muslims and Christians in Lebanon is Lebanese secularism.
A study of the coexistence of Muslims and Christians in Lebanon through an investigation of Lebanese law. The book considers coexistence as an organizing or structuring principle of the modern Lebanese state, and of its legal order. It analyses the kind of legal arrangement that coexistence dictates, and the legal processes that sustain coexistence. It reaches beyond the law to describe or provide an account of coexistence as constitutive of a secular sensibility or form of life, a sensibility or form of life that finds its articulations in specific ways of thinking, doing, and feeling. It describes some of the concepts, practices, and attitudes of coexistence, through which Muslims and Christians in Lebanon are secured a place and secured in place, enabled and constrained to make legible their ‘religious’ difference and distinctiveness through marriage and its consequences (the family), and to keep in check, restrain, or contain their ‘religious’ passions. It proposes that the coexistence of Muslims and Christians in Lebanon is Lebanese secularism.
Raja Abillama is a sociocultural anthropologist. He teaches at Fordham University in New York, and has taught at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul, North Carolina State University, and Georgetown University.
Introduction: An Anthropology of Coexistence
PART I MODES OF BELONGING
1. Securing the Religious in Place
2. Tabdīl al-Dīn, Secular Displacement and Religious Conversion
PART II FORMS OF LIFE
3. Christian Marriage, Medical Knowledge and the Attributes of the Person
4. Conduct and Judgment between the Shariʿa and the Law
PART III DISPASSIONATE BODIES
5. Offending the Religious
6. The Religious Offended
Epilogue
References
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 05.12.2023 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781399507547 / 9781399507547 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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