Shi'ite Lebanon: Transnational Religion And The Making Of National identities
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/ Roschanack Shaery - Eisenlohr
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New York
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: Columbia University Press
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, 2008.
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xix, 288 p.
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: ill.
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History and society of the modern Middle East
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Code E.Book: 3166
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Index
CONTENTS NOTE
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Introduction : claiming cultural citizenship in Lebanon, from margin to center -- The nation in the making -- Two nations and one state : Shi°ite and Maronite Lebanon -- Schooling and the creation of Lebanese Shi°ite public identity -- Transnational debates and local struggles -- Shi°ite piety and the Palestinian cause : the history of a discourse -- The politics of Shi°ite authenticity since 1982-- Iranian cultural politics in Lebanon -- Epilogue