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Christian Political Activism in Lebanon: A Revival of Religious Nationalism in Times of Arab Upheavals
Author(s) -
Felsch Maximilian
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
studies in ethnicity and nationalism
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.204
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 1754-9469
pISSN - 1473-8481
DOI - 10.1111/sena.12262
Subject(s) - nationalism , islam , democracy , state (computer science) , politics , power (physics) , political science , religious studies , population , political economy , middle east , sociology , law , economic history , history , theology , demography , philosophy , physics , algorithm , quantum mechanics , computer science
In response to the spread of Islamic extremism and the Christian exodus in most of the Middle East, many Lebanese Christians are opting for an isolationist, religious‐nationalist policy, aimed at internal self‐determination and national domination. By doing so, they not only accept a further national disintegration of Lebanon's society, but they also prevent essential democratic reforms. Following Georg Jellinek's three elements theory of the state, the paper analyzes Lebanese Christian nationalism in terms of its territorial, population, and state power dimensions.