Sectarianism

About: Sectarianism is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1054 publications have been published within this topic receiving 12893 citations. The topic is also known as: sectarian conflict.

Islamic Britain: Religion, Politics and Identity Among British Muslims

Abstract: Britain's Muslim communities Islam in South Asia Bradford - Britain's "Islamabad" Islamic institutions in Bradford the "'Ulama" - the making and influence of a British Muslim leadership beyond sectarianism - the role of the Council for Mosques looking forward - Muslim communities in the 1990s.

Political sectarianism in America

Abstract: A poisonous cocktail of othering, aversion, and moralization poses a threat to democracy Political polarization, a concern in many countries, is especially acrimonious in the United States (see the first box). For decades, scholars have studied polarization as an ideological matter—how strongly Democrats and Republicans diverge vis-à-vis political ideals and policy goals. Such competition among groups in the marketplace of ideas is a hallmark of a healthy democracy. But more recently, researchers have identified a second type of polarization, one focusing less on triumphs of ideas than on dominating the abhorrent supporters of the opposing party (1). This literature has produced a proliferation of insights and constructs but few interdisciplinary efforts to integrate them. We offer such an integration, pinpointing the superordinate construct of political sectarianism and identifying its three core ingredients: othering, aversion, and moralization. We then consider the causes of political sectarianism and its consequences for U.S. society—especially the threat it poses to democracy. Finally, we propose interventions for minimizing its most corrosive aspects.

The Culture of Sectarianism: Community, History, and Violence in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Lebanon

Abstract: (2001). The Culture of Sectarianism: Community, History, and Violence in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Lebanon. History: Reviews of New Books: Vol. 29, No. 3, pp. 129-129.

The Culture of Sectarianism : Community, History, and Violence in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Lebanon

Abstract: Focusing on Ottoman Lebanon, Ussama Makdisi shows how sectarianism was a manifestation of modernity that transcended the physical boundaries of a particular country. His study challenges those who have viewed sectarian violence as an Islamic response to westernization or simply as a product of social and economic inequities among religious groups. The religious violence of the nineteenth century, which culminated in sectarian mobilizations and massacres in 1860, was a complex, multilayered, subaltern expression of modernization, he says, not a primordial reaction to it. Makdisi argues that sectarianism represented a deliberate mobilization of religious identities for political and social purposes. The Ottoman reform movement launched in 1839 and the growing European presence in the Middle East contributed to the disintegration of the traditional Lebanese social order based on a hierarchy that bridged religious differences. Makdisi highlights how European colonialism and Orientalism, with their emphasis on Christian salvation and Islamic despotism, and Ottoman and local nationalisms each created and used narratives of sectarianism as foils to their own visions of modernity and to their own projects of colonial, imperial, and national development. Makdisi's book is important to our understanding of Lebanese society today, but it also makes a significant contribution to the discussion of the importance of religious discourse in the formation and dissolution of social and national identities in the modern world.

Compassionate Communalism: Welfare and Sectarianism in Lebanon

Abstract: The idea behind the book, Compassionate Communalism, materialized after Dr. Melani Cammett read an article in the New York Times about a healthcare facility in Baghdad that was taken over by a newly formed religious party during the American invasion of Iraq. Cammett was fascinated by the phenomenon of access to welfare services in a state where public welfare was crumbling. In that sense, Lebanon became her next logical research field as it is known for welfare provisions by non-state actors. Cammett wanted to understand why non-state actors distribute welfare and the reasons behind choosing to serve their in-group constituents to branch out to out-groups.