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Practicing Sectarianism explores the imaginative and contradictory ways that people live sectarianism. The book's essays use the concept as an animating principle within a variety of sites across Lebanon and its diasporas and over a range of historical periods. With contributions from historians and anthropologists, this volume reveals the many ways sectarianism is used to exhibit, imagine, or contest power: What forms of affective pull does it have on people and communities? What epistemological work does it do as a concept? How does it function as a marker of social difference?
Examining social interaction, each essay analyzes how people experience sectarianism, sometimes pushing back, sometimes evading it, sometimes deploying it strategically, to a variety of effects and consequences. The collection advances an understanding of sectarianism simultaneously constructed and experienced, a slippery and changeable concept with material effects. And even as the book's focus is Lebanon, its analysis fractures the association of sectarianism with the nation-state and suggests possibilities that can travel to other sites. Practicing Sectarianism, taken as a whole, argues that sectarianism can only be fully understood—and dismantled—if we first take it seriously as a practice.
Contents
Introduction: Practicing Sectarianism in Lebanon
-Lara Deeb, Tsolin Nalbantian, and Nadya Sbaiti
1. No Room for This Story: Education and the Limits of Sectarianism during the Mandate Era
-Nadya Sbaiti
2. Negotiating Citizenship: Shi'i Families and the Ja'fari Shari'a Courts
-Linda Sayed
3. The Archive Is Burning: Law, Unknowability, and the Curation of History
-Maya Mikdashi
4. Donating in the Name of the Nation: Charity, Sectarianism, and the Mahjar
-Reem Bailony
5. Along and beyond Sect? Olfactory Aesthetics and Rum Orthodox Identity
-Roxana Maria Arãs
6. From Murder in New York to Salvation from Beirut: Armenian Intrasectarianism
-Tsolin Nalbantian
7. Inequality and Identity: Social Class, Urban Space, and Sect
-Joanne Randa Nucho
8. When Exposure Is Not Enough: Sectarianism as a Response to Mixed Marriage
-Lara Deeb
