Shi'ite Lebanon: Transnational Religion and the Making of National Identities

Roschanack Shaery-Eisenlohr

June, 2008
Cloth, 312 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14426-1
$37.50 / £22.00

Preface

Acknowledgments

Note on Transliteration

Introduction: Claiming Cultural Citizenship in Lebanon from Margin to Center

Part 1 The Nation in the Making

1. Two Nations and One State: Shi'ite and Maronite Lebanon

2. Schooling and the Creation of Lebanese Shi'ite Public Identities

Part 2 Transnational Debates and Local Struggles

3. Shi'ite Piety and the Palestinian Cause: The History of a Discourse

4. The Politics of Shi'ite Authenticity Since 1982

5. Iranian Cultural Politics in Lebanon

Epilogue

Notes

References

Index

Related Subjects

• Anthropology
• Middle East Studies

About the Author

Roschanack Shaery-Eisenlohr completed her Ph.D. at the University of Chicago and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Washington University.

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