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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| Формат: | Электронный ресурс Статья |
| Язык: | Английский |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2020]
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Journal of law and religion
Год: 2020, Том: 35, Выпуск: 3, Страницы: 380-406 |
| Нормированные ключевые слова (последовательности): | B
Libanon
/ Уголовный закон
/ Гомосексуальность (мотив)
/ Криминализация
/ Иезуиты (мотив)
/ Maroniten
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| Индексация IxTheo: | CB Христианская жизнь KBL Ближний Восток KCA Монашество; религиозные ордена XA Право |
| Другие ключевые слова: | 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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| Итог: | 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 |
| Второстепенные работы: | Enthalten in: Journal of law and religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/jlr.2019.42 |