Understanding Sectarianism

Makdisi, U. (2001)

Article / Letter to editor

The civil war in Lebanon is over. Sectarianism is not. This simple observation should make all scholars who analyse sectarianism (or communalism) pause and reflect on the nature of the problem that they are so often called upon to explain. In Lebanon and elsewhere - in India, Indonesia, the Philippines, and the Balkans - religious violence and sectarian political discourse have not diminished in the modern world, and in fact, in many instances have been exacerbated in it.

• Lebanon

• All authors: Makdisi, U.
• Date: 2001
• Journal: ISIM Newsletter
• Volume: 8
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 19 - 19
• Publisher: ISIM, Leiden