Secular Coexistence in Lebanon

Christians, Muslims and Subjects of Law

Raja Abillama (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2025
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
9781399507554 (ISBN)

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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	07.08.2025
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
ISBN-13	9781399507554 / 9781399507554
Zustand	Neuware