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This comparative ethnography of a Muslim and a Christian Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon focuses on contrasting social belonging processes through a ritualization approach. Leonardo Schiocchet ...
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  • 27 March 2022
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This comparative ethnography of a Muslim and a Christian Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon focuses on contrasting social belonging processes through a ritualization approach. Leonardo Schiocchet argues that contrasts emerge out of the intersectionality of religiosity, nationhood, refugeeness and politics, and synthesizes academic research on piety and moral self-cultivation and on the everyday life of religious communities. He contributes to the literature on refugees at large, and Palestinian refugees in particular, with the unique dense socio-historical portrait of two refugee camps for which there is almost no recorded literature.
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Pages: 264
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Series: Forced Migration Studies Series
Publication Date: 27 March 2022
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783837660746
Format: Paperback
BISACs: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies
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»The book clearly illustrates and deconstructs how religion, nation politics, identity, and belonging can be integrated into the daily life of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. This is a must read for anyone interested in gaining a deep insight into Palestinian lives in refuge in Lebanon.«
Leonardo Schiocchet has a PhD in anthropology (Boston University, 2011) and a Habilitation in social and cultural anthropology (University of Vienna, 2022). He is a researcher at the Institute for Social Anthropology (ISA) at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), a member of the Refugee Outreach & Research Network (ROR-n), and principal investigator of the FWF project The Austro-Arab Encounter. Since 2005, his work has focused on social belonging processes among Arab forced migrants.

Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Introduction 7
Chapter 1: A Disposition toward Suspicion 37
Chapter 2: Settling in Lebanon: An Oral Historical Account 57
Chapter 3: Ritual Tempo in Al-Jalil 83
Chapter 4: Ritual Tempo in Dbayeh 113
Chapter 5: On Ritual, Religion, and Time 157
Chapter 6: Al-umd: Sacralization and Ritualization of Palestinianness 183
Chapter 7: Economies of Trust 201
8. Conclusion 231
References 239
Index 252