Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Transformation of Shi'ite Islam: Towards a Lebanese/Senegalese Religious Integration?

这项由布朗大学人类学博士生进行的研究，考察了伊斯兰教在塞内加尔适应和同化黎巴嫩移民方面的作用，并调查了两个相互接触了一个世纪的穆斯林民族(黎巴嫩什叶派和塞内加尔逊尼派)最近如何以及为什么改变了信仰和习俗。黎巴嫩人和塞内加尔人之间的宗教相似性以前并不是融合的原因，种族界限仍然很强。随着黎巴嫩什叶派酋长于1978年建立黎巴嫩伊斯兰学院，这种情况开始改变。这项研究的具体目标是：1)探讨黎巴嫩宗教习俗在移民和同化过程中的变化；2)评估塞内加尔黎巴嫩社区与黎巴嫩的联系，以及这些联系如何影响文化和宗教认同；3)重新形成关于移民、移民同化和跨民族主义的理论。除了对这些理论领域作出贡献外，这些调查结果还与移民人口对接受国的影响的政策关切直接相关。

This study, conducted by a doctoral student in anthropology from Brown University, examines the role of Islam in the adaptation and assimilation of Lebanese migrants in Senegal and investigates how and why the beliefs and practices of two Muslim peoples in contact with each other for a century (Lebanese Shi'ites and Senegalese Sunnis) have recently been transformed. Religious similarities between Lebanese and Senegalese have not previously been a cause for integration, and racial boundaries have remained strong. This began to change with the founding of the Lebanese Islamic Institute in 1978 by a Shi'ite sheikh from Lebanon. The specific objectives of this study are to: 1) explore how Lebanese religious practices change in the process of migration and assimilation; 2) evaluate ties to Lebanon among the Lebanese community in Senegal and how these ties influence cultural and religious identity; 3) reformulate theories of migration, immigrant assimilation and transnationalism. In addition to contributing to these theoretical arenas, the findings are directly relevant to policy concerns regarding the impacts of migrant populations on receiving countries.