04098nam 22007453 450 991086208460332120230530195945.097815036315641-5036-3156-710.1515/9781503631564(CKB)5860000000042065(OCoLC)1281787187EBL7012505(AU-PeEL)EBL7012505(DE-B1597)627948(DE-B1597)9781503631564(MiAaPQ)EBC7012505(EXLCZ)99586000000004206520220613d2022 uy 0engurbn#---muuuutxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierSextarianism sovereignty, secularism, and the state in Lebanon /Maya MikdashiStanford, California :Stanford University Press,[2022]1 online resource (190 pages)Description based upon print version of record.1-5036-2887-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter --Contents --Preface --Introduction. Sextarianism --Chapter 1 Afterlives of a Census: Rethinking State Power and Political Difference --Chapter 2 A Fire in the Archive: History, Ethnography, Multiplicity --Chapter 3 Regulating Conversion: Sovereignty, Bureaucracy, and the Banality of Religion --Chapter 4 Are You Going to Pride? Evangelical Secularism and the Politics of Law --Chapter 5 The Epidermal State: Violence and the Materiality of Power --Epilogue --Acknowledgments --Notes --Bibliography --IndexThe Lebanese state is structured through religious freedom and secular power sharing across sectarian groups. Every sect has specific laws that govern kinship matters like marriage or inheritance. Together with criminal and civil laws, these laws regulate and produce political difference. But whether women or men, Muslims or Christians, queer or straight, all people in Lebanon have one thing in common—they are biopolitical subjects forged through bureaucratic, ideological, and legal techniques of the state. With this book, Maya Mikdashi offers a new way to understand state power, theorizing how sex, sexuality, and sect shape and are shaped by law, secularism, and sovereignty. Drawing on court archives, public records, and ethnography of the Court of Cassation, the highest civil court in Lebanon, Mikdashi shows how political difference is entangled with religious, secular, and sexual difference. She presents state power as inevitably contingent, like the practices of everyday life it engenders, focusing on the regulation of religious conversion, the curation of legal archives, state and parastatal violence, and secular activism. Sextarianism locates state power in the experiences, transitions, uprisings, and violence that people in the Middle East continue to live.Power (Social sciences)LebanonReligion and stateLebanonSecularismLebanonSexPolitical aspectsLebanonCultural pluralismPolitical aspectsLebanonHISTORY / Middle East / GeneralbisacshLebanonPolitics and government1990-LebanonEthnic relationsLebanon.archival research.bureaucracy.feminist theory.law.political theory.religious conversion.sectarianism.secularism.sexual difference.Power (Social sciences)Religion and stateSecularismSexPolitical aspectsCultural pluralismPolitical aspectsHISTORY / Middle East / General.956.92045Mikdashi Maya1740842AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910862084603321Sextarianism4166688UNINA