Weiss - In the Shadows of Sectarianism [d0aeb1c0]
Tags: books, sectarianism
- Puts forward a different typology of "sectarianism" that doesn't restrict it to one identity
- Underlying understanding of sectarianism is that it is the polar opposite of state building
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Argues that sectarianization of the Lebanese Shi'a communities during the french mandate in lebanon was pushed both
- above: form of elite and colonial divide and rule
- below: sect-specific rights and religious recongition
- argues that we cannot blame sectarianism as a pure product of colonialism