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Shiʻite Lebanon : transnational religion and the making of national identities
Title
Shiʻite Lebanon : transnational religion and the making of national identities / Roschanack Shaery-Eisenlohr.
ISBN
9780231144261 (cloth : alk. paper)
0231144261 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780231513135 (ebook)
0231513135 (ebook)
Published
New York : Columbia University Press, c2008.
Physical Description
xix, 288 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 29, 2008
Series
History and society of the modern Middle East
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-274) and index.
Contents
Introduction : claiming cultural citizenship in Lebanon, from margin to center
The nation in the making
Two nations and one state : Shiʻite and Maronite Lebanon
Schooling and the creation of Lebanese Shiʻite public identity
Transnational debates and local struggles
Shiʻite piety and the Palestinian cause : the history of a discourse
The politics of Shiʻite authenticity since 1982
Iranian cultural politics in Lebanon
Epilogue.
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