LEADER 04098nam 22007453 450 001 9910862084603321 005 20230530195945.0 010 $a9781503631564 010 $a1-5036-3156-7 024 7 $a10.1515/9781503631564 035 $a(CKB)5860000000042065 035 $a(OCoLC)1281787187 035 $aEBL7012505 035 $a(AU-PeEL)EBL7012505 035 $a(DE-B1597)627948 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781503631564 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7012505 035 $a(EXLCZ)995860000000042065 100 $a20220613d2022 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurbn#---muuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aSextarianism $esovereignty, secularism, and the state in Lebanon /$fMaya Mikdashi 210 1$aStanford, California :$cStanford University Press,$d[2022] 215 $a1 online resource (190 pages) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 1 $a1-5036-2887-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tIntroduction. Sextarianism --$tChapter 1 Afterlives of a Census: Rethinking State Power and Political Difference --$tChapter 2 A Fire in the Archive: History, Ethnography, Multiplicity --$tChapter 3 Regulating Conversion: Sovereignty, Bureaucracy, and the Banality of Religion --$tChapter 4 Are You Going to Pride? Evangelical Secularism and the Politics of Law --$tChapter 5 The Epidermal State: Violence and the Materiality of Power --$tEpilogue --$tAcknowledgments --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aThe 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. 606 $aPower (Social sciences)$zLebanon 606 $aReligion and state$zLebanon 606 $aSecularism$zLebanon 606 $aSex$xPolitical aspects$zLebanon 606 $aCultural pluralism$xPolitical aspects$zLebanon 606 $aHISTORY / Middle East / General$2bisacsh 607 $aLebanon$xPolitics and government$y1990- 607 $aLebanon$xEthnic relations 610 $aLebanon. 610 $aarchival research. 610 $abureaucracy. 610 $afeminist theory. 610 $alaw. 610 $apolitical theory. 610 $areligious conversion. 610 $asectarianism. 610 $asecularism. 610 $asexual difference. 615 0$aPower (Social sciences) 615 0$aReligion and state 615 0$aSecularism 615 0$aSex$xPolitical aspects 615 0$aCultural pluralism$xPolitical aspects 615 7$aHISTORY / Middle East / General. 676 $a956.92045 700 $aMikdashi$b Maya$01740842 801 0$bAU-PeEL 801 1$bAU-PeEL 801 2$bAU-PeEL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910862084603321 996 $aSextarianism$94166688 997 $aUNINA