On the Jesuit-Maronite Provenance of Lebanon's Criminalization of Homosexuality
Article 534 of the Lebanese Penal Code, effectively, criminalizes homosexual practices. Most commentators have claimed that its existence in modern Lebanon is a "colonial relic," specifically of the French Mandate, 1920-1946. But since 1791, French penal codes have not criminalized same-se...
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| Τύπος μέσου: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Άρθρο |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2020]
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Journal of law and religion
Έτος: 2020, Τόμος: 35, Τεύχος: 3, Σελίδες: 380-406 |
| Τυποποιημένες (ακολουθίες) λέξεων-κλειδιών: | B
Libanon
/ Ποινικό δίκαιο
/ Ομοφυλοφιλία (μοτίβο)
/ Ποινικοποίηση
/ Ιησουίτες (μοτίβο)
/ Maroniten
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| Σημειογραφίες IxTheo: | CB Χριστιανική ύπαρξη, Πνευματικότητα KBL Εγγύς Ανατολή, Βόρεια Αφρική KCA Θρησκευτικά Τάγματα, Μοναχισμός ΧΑ Δίκαιο |
| Άλλες λέξεις-κλειδιά: | B
Lebanon
B Maronite B Jesuit B Aquinas B Article 534 B Sectarianism B conviviendum B same-sex relations B France B Confessionalism |
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| Σύνοψη: | Article 534 of the Lebanese Penal Code, effectively, criminalizes homosexual practices. Most commentators have claimed that its existence in modern Lebanon is a "colonial relic," specifically of the French Mandate, 1920-1946. But since 1791, French penal codes have not criminalized same-sex relations. I argue, instead, that Article 534 was the product of native religious, legal, and moral thinking among the Maronites, reinforced by the Thomistic and post-Tridentine moral theology taught in Lebanon by the Jesuit missions. Thomistic and post-Tridentine moral theology classified same-sex relations as worthy of condemnation as "unnatural acts" - the same language used in Article 534. Therefore, as a product of Lebanese political and religious sectarianism, Article 534 is a specific case of a congenial collaboration of Jesuit moral theology and a conservative Maronite ethical and legal koine. |
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| ISSN: | 2163-3088 |
| Περιλαμβάνει: | Enthalten in: Journal of law and religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/jlr.2019.42 |