From the Throes of Anguished Mourning Shi‘i Ritual Lamentation and the Pious Publics of Lebanon
Marei, Fouad Gehad LU
(2020)
In Religion and Society
11(1).
p.133-147
- Abstract
Drawing on a study of Shi‘i ritual lamentation in Lebanon, this article examines how religious actors and pious publics employ literary, recitational, theatrical, and socio-technological methods to cultivate imaginal engagements with the other-worldly. These methods are analyzed, demonstrating how they locate pious Shi‘is in religious meta-narratives that transcend the linearity of time, taking place simultaneously in the Elsewhere and in the here-and-now. I argue that this produces transposable and lasting dispositions that constitute the Shi‘i self, immerses subjects in this-worldly-oriented modes of religiosity, and bestows upon Shi‘i politics and the imagined community a profound emotional legitimacy. I posit that cultivated... (More)
Drawing on a study of Shi‘i ritual lamentation in Lebanon, this article examines how religious actors and pious publics employ literary, recitational, theatrical, and socio-technological methods to cultivate imaginal engagements with the other-worldly. These methods are analyzed, demonstrating how they locate pious Shi‘is in religious meta-narratives that transcend the linearity of time, taking place simultaneously in the Elsewhere and in the here-and-now. I argue that this produces transposable and lasting dispositions that constitute the Shi‘i self, immerses subjects in this-worldly-oriented modes of religiosity, and bestows upon Shi‘i politics and the imagined community a profound emotional legitimacy. I posit that cultivated engagements with the Elsewhere are constitutive experiences in modes of religiosity that emphasize a symbiosis between human action and metaphysical intervention, thus complicating the question of agency and intentional action.
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- author
- Marei, Fouad Gehad
LU
- publishing date
- 2020
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- eschatology, Hezbollah, Islam, Lebanon, ritual practice, sectarianism, Shi‘ism
- in
- Religion and Society
- volume
- 11
- issue
- 1
- pages
- 15 pages
- publisher
- Berghahn Journals
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85099141063
- ISSN
- 2150-9298
- DOI
- 10.3167/ARRS.2020.110110
- project
- Alterumma - Creating an Alternative umma: Clerical Authority and Religio-political Mobilisation in Transnational Shii Islam
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- no
- additional info
- Funding Information: This article is part of a project that has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (Grant agreement No. 724557). The fieldwork informing this research was funded by a fellowship of the German Orient-Institut in Beirut (OIB). Funding Information: This article is part of a project that has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union‘s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (Grant agreement No. 724557). The fieldwork informing this research was funded by a fellowship of the German Orient-Institut in Beirut (OIB). Publisher Copyright: © 2020 The Author(s)
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