From the Throes of Anguished Mourning

Shi'i Ritual Lamentation and the Pious Publics of Lebanon

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3175677
AutoresFouad Gehad Marei (0000-0003-1133-3700, University of Birmingham, autor de correspondencia)
Año2020
Volumen11
Número1
Páginas133-147
Fecha de publicación2020-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaReligion and Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2150-9298 • E-ISSN: 2150-9301
EditorialBerghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.3167/arrs.2020.110110
OpenAlexW3114468882
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas29

Drawing on a study of Shi'i ritual lamentation in Lebanon, this article examines how religious actors and pious publics employ literary, recitational, theatrical, and socio-technological methods to cultivate imaginal engagements with the other-worldly. These methods are analyzed, demonstrating how they locate pious Shi'is in religious meta-narratives that transcend the linearity of time, taking place simultaneously in the Elsewhere and in the here-and-now. I argue that this produces transposable and lasting dispositions that constitute the Shi'i self, immerses subjects in this-worldly-oriented modes of religiosity, and bestows upon Shi'i politics and the imagined community a profound emotional legitimacy. I posit that cultivated engagements with the Elsewhere are constitutive experiences in modes of religiosity that emphasize a symbiosis between human action and metaphysical intervention, thus complicating the question of agency and intentional action

Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Legitimacy · Literature · Metaphysics · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Religiosity · Social science · Sociology · Gender Studies · Islamic Studies and History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Middle East Politics and Society · Philosophy