Roschanack Shaery-Eisenlohr "Shi'ite Lebanon: Transnational Religion and the Making of National Identities"
Columbia University Press | 2008-06-10 | ISBN: 0231144261 | 312 pages | PDF | 21 MB
By recasting the relationship between religion and nationalism in the Middle East, Roschanack Shaery-Eisenlohr proposes a new framework for understanding Shi'ite politics in Lebanon. Her study draws on a variety of untapped sources, reconsidering not only the politics of the established leadership of Shi'ites but also institutional and popular activities of identity production…