Normalization through Religious Representation
A Lebanese Druze Response to the “Muslim Question”
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20206593 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alexander D M Henley (University of Oxford, corresponding author), Alexander Henley |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 363-387 |
| Publication date | 2022-05-05 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Implicit Religion (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1463-9955 • E-ISSN: 1743-1697 |
| Publisher | Equinox Publishing (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1558/imre.20626 |
| OpenAlex | W4312689927 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 13 |
This article examines a secular liberal state’s demand for religious representation of minorities, exploring how one heterodox Muslim community has responded to this demand in a context of intense public scrutiny. In order to gain recognition and rights as a legitimate religious community in modern Lebanon, Druze leaders created a new figurehead to look something like the head of a Christian church. Their project offers a striking case of how a secular democracy can end up generating the “religion” it expects to find; how the politics of religious representation can transform Muslim communities that lack a church-like structure; how ambiguous the notion of “religious representation” turns out to be when these Muslims try to do it from scratch; and how much harder heterodox Muslims often have to work to gain recognition within a world religions paradigm
Aesthetics · Epistemology · Islam · Political science · Politics · Scrutiny · Secularism · Social science · Sociology · Theology · Gender Studies · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Middle East Politics and Society · Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender · Philosophy · Religious studies
The Druze Community and the Lebanese State
In the Shadow of Sectarianism
Marriage, Divorce and Succession in the Druze Family
Shaykh al‐'Aql and the Druze of Mount Lebanon
Religious Sectarianism in the Lebanese Political System
Remaking the Mosaic
"Re-posing the "Muslim Question
"Muslims' integration as a way to defuse the "Muslim Question
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |