{"product_id":"practicing-sectarianism-2","title":"Practicing Sectarianism","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePracticing Sectarianism\u003c\/i\u003e explores the imaginative and contradictory ways that people live sectarianism. The book's essays use the concept as an animating principle within a variety of sites across Lebanon and its diasporas and over a range of historical periods. With contributions from historians and anthropologists, this volume reveals the many ways sectarianism is used to exhibit, imagine, or contest power: What forms of affective pull does it have on people and communities? What epistemological work does it do as a concept? How does it function as a marker of social difference?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExamining social interaction, each essay analyzes how people experience sectarianism, sometimes pushing back, sometimes evading it, sometimes deploying it strategically, to a variety of effects and consequences. The collection advances an understanding of sectarianism simultaneously constructed and experienced, a slippery and changeable concept with material effects. And even as the book's focus is Lebanon, its analysis fractures the association of sectarianism with the nation-state and suggests possibilities that can travel to other sites. \u003ci\u003ePracticing Sectarianism\u003c\/i\u003e, taken as a whole, argues that sectarianism can only be fully understood—and dismantled—if we first take it seriously as a practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Lara Deeb","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43574019522742,"sku":"9781503633872","price":21.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9781503633872_6eb29fba-dac2-4137-afb7-b22ec21ac5eb.jpg?v=1727357985","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/practicing-sectarianism-2","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}