Faith and Resistance

Sarah Marusek

Description

What kind of decolonial possibilities exist in today's world? Exploring the rise of Islamic activism in Lebanon and the Middle East, and drawing transnational parallels with other revolutionary religious struggles in Latin America and South Africa, Sarah Marusek offers a timely analysis of the social and political evolution of Islamic movements.



The growing popularity of Islamic movements means that many groups, which emerged in opposition to Western imperialism, are now also gaining increasing economic and political powers.



Based on more than two and a half years of ethnographic fieldwork in Lebanon, Marusek paints a picture of how resistance is lived and reproduced in daily lives, tracing the evolution of the ideas and practices of the charities affiliated with Hizbullah and the wider Islamic resistance movement.



Adopting a dialectical approach, Faith and Resistance discusses the possibility for resistance groups to reconcile acquiring power with their decolonial aspirations. In doing so, the book acts as a guide for liberation struggles and those engaged in resistance the world over.
List of Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction

2. The Rise of Religious Activism in Lebanon and Beyond

3. Deconstructing Terrorism and Resistance

4. Lebanon’s Resistance Charities

5. The Imam Al-Sadr Foundation

6. The Problem of Resistance and Power

Conclusion

Notes

References

Index

Sujets

• Political Ideologies
• Political Freedom
• Post-Colonialism
• Political Science
• Modern
• HISTORY
• Hezbolá
• Religión
• Yihad
• Irán
• Corán
• 21st century
• Political science of religion
• Israel
• Iraq
• Inequality
• Charity
• Marxism
• Modern history
• Sectarianism
• General officer
• Rationality
• Orientalism
• Qur'an
• Palestinian people
• Jihad
• Imperialism
• Colonialism
• Capitalism
• Religion
• Djihad
• Impérialisme (jeu vidéo)
• General
• Faith
• Coran
• Oppression
• Lebanon
• War
• Orientalisme
• Irak
• Love
• Obermodern-Zutzendorf
• Iran

Informations

• Publié par: Pluto Press
• Date de parution: 20 mai 2018
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781786802323
• Langue: English

Extrait

Faith and Resistance

Decolonial Studies, Postcolonial Horizons

Series editors: Ramón Grosfoguel (University of California at Berkeley) Barnor Hesse (Northwestern University) S. Sayyid (University of Leeds) Since the end of the Cold War, unresolved conjunctures and crises of race, ethnicity, religion, diversity, diaspora, globalization, the West and the non-West have radically projected the meaning of the political and the cultural beyond the traditional verities of Left and Right. Throughout this period, Western developments in ‘international relations’ have become increasingly defined as corollaries to national ‘race-relations’ across both the European Union and the United States, where the reformation of Western imperial discourses and practices have been given particular impetus by the ‘war against terror’. At the same time, hegemonic Western continuities of racial profiling and colonial innovations have attested to the incomplete and interrupted institutions of the postcolonial era. Today we are witnessing renewed critiques of these postcolonial horizons at the threshold of attempts to inaugurate the political and cultural forms that decolonization now needs to take within and between the West and the ‘non-West’. This series explores and discusses radical ideas that open up and advance understandings of these politically multicultural issues and theoretically interdisciplinary questions. Also available

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