Belated Arabo-Islamic difference in excess: racialised religious practice under modernity/coloniality in Lebanon

Through an exercise of decolonial listening, this article works with hijab-wearing women in Lebanon, a small Arab-majority confessional country, to voice, conceptualise, and analyse their lived experience within ‘mainstream Lebanese society’. Investigating their ‘social form’, it advances this lived...

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Main Author: Kassem, Ali (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Carfax Publ. 2022
In: Journal of contemporary religion
Year: 2022, Volume: 37, Issue: 2, Pages: 223-242
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Lebanon / Head covering / Experience / Exclusion / Othering / Rückständigkeit / Postcolonialism
IxTheo Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
AG Religious life; material religion
BJ Islam
KBL Near East and North Africa
Further subjects:B Lebanon
B modernity / (de)coloniality
B Islam
B social inequalities
B dehumanisation
B Religious Discrimination
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Summary:Through an exercise of decolonial listening, this article works with hijab-wearing women in Lebanon, a small Arab-majority confessional country, to voice, conceptualise, and analyse their lived experience within ‘mainstream Lebanese society’. Investigating their ‘social form’, it advances this lived experience as a belated Arabo-Islamic difference in excess, with a ‘wounded habitus’. Accordingly, it argues that a racialisation due to wearing the hijab is experienced through exclusion from citizenry, modernity, and, most violently, humanity. The article thus showcases religion (Islam) as a persistent key nexus of exclusion where imagined national identities, global coloniality, and Empire entwine to enforce a pervasive experience of dehumanising subordination for the erasure of modernity’s (religious, Muslim) Other.
ISSN:1469-9419
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of contemporary religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/13537903.2022.2045782