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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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2020]
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Journal of law and religion
Année: 2020, Volume: 35, Numéro: 3, Pages: 380-406 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Libanon
/ Législation pénale
/ Homosexualité
/ Criminalisation
/ Jésuites
/ Maroniten
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| Classifications IxTheo: | CB Spiritualité chrétienne KBL Proche-Orient et Afrique du Nord KCA Monachisme; ordres religieux XA Droit |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | 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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| Résumé: | 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 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Journal of law and religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/jlr.2019.42 |