Dissertation Research: Social and Political Process Among Shia Moslems in Lebanon

9904287Donham / Deeb该项目支持埃默里大学人类学学生的论文研究，研究黎巴嫩贝鲁特伊斯兰什叶派社区的政治方法和态度。学生将考察三个机构地点，一个“伊斯兰主义者”（原教旨主义者），一个民族主义者和一个世俗的什叶派社区，以了解当地的宗派主义观念（当地人相互看待的主要方式）如何影响他们与更大的民族社区的关系，评估这些观念如何影响黎巴嫩重建的社会议程，并调查性别在这些不同群体中的作用。学生将使用参与者观察、档案研究、调查、扩展案例研究、半结构化访谈、家谱、叙事和同伴小组访谈，在一个民族主义组织中，该组织在该市经营着20多所小学、中学和职业学校，黎巴嫩大学中聚集了许多世俗的什叶派教师和学生，以及一个伊斯兰组织，在黎巴嫩经营着20多所学校、医院和孤儿院。并与国际什叶派清真寺网络有联系。除了加深我们对宗教团体如何在国家建设中组织起来的理解之外，该项目还支持培训一名年轻的社会科学家，并将为讨论中东当前的政治气候提供信息，因为什叶派在黎巴嫩的重建和争夺该地区影响力的斗争中发挥着关键作用。

9904287Donham / Deeb This project supports the dissertation research of an anthropology student from Emory University studying the political approaches and attitudes of Islamic Shia communities in Beirut, Lebanon. The student will examine three institutional sites, an "Islamist" (fundamentalist), a nationalist, and a secular Shia community, to see how local conceptions of sectarianism (the dominant way local people view each other) affects their relation to the larger national community, to assess how these conceptions affect social agendas with regards to Lebanon's reconstruction, and to investigate the role of gender in these diverse groups. The student will use participant-observation, archival research, surveys, extended case studies, semi-structured interviews, genealogical, narrative and peer group interviews in a nationalist organization which runs over twenty elementary, secondary and vocational schools in the city, the Lebanese University in which many secular Shia faculty and students congregate, and an Islamist organization which runs over twenty schools, hospitals and orphanages in Lebanon, and which is linked to an international Shia network of mosques. In addition to furthering our understanding of how religious communities organize themselves in nation-building, the project supports the training of a young social scientist, and will inform discussions of the current political climate in the Middle East, as the Shia play a critical role in the rebuilding of Lebanon and the struggles for influence in the region.