| Description |
326 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: On Constructing an Intellectual Craft -- I. On the Dialectics of Tradition and Modernity in Arab Society -- 1. On Loyalties and Social Change -- 2. The Growing Pains of Arab Intellectuals -- 3. Social Structure and Urban Planning in Lebanon -- II. New England Puritanism as a Cultural Transplant -- 4. Protestant Orientalism: Evangelical Christianity and Cultural Imperialism -- 5. Leavening the Levant: New England Puritanism as a Cultural Transplant -- 6. Protestant Images of Islam: Disparaging Stereotypes Reconfirmed -- 7. On Doing Much with Little Noise: Early Encounters of Protestant Missionaries in Lebanon -- III. The Spaces of War in Lebanon -- 8. The Scares and Scars of War -- 9. The Radicalization of Communal Identities -- IV. The Restoration of Civility in Lebanon -- 10. From a Geography of Fear to a Culture of Tolerance -- 11. Contested Space and the Forging of New Cultural Identities -- V. Reflexive Essays -- 12. From Aley to Ras Beirut: A Memoir |
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13. The Americanization of George -- 14. On Madonna and Mount Sannin -- 15. Lebanon as a Playground |
| Summary |
"This book addresses in the first instance the interplay between traditional loyalties and social change, and explores the crisis of Arab intellectuals and their failure to act as effective carriers of socio-cultural and ideological transformations in their respective societies. This deficiency highlights even more the role of seemingly 'traditional' groups that have emerged as alternative vehicles for change."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [309]-322) and index |
| Subject |
Social change -- Arab countries.
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Intellectuals -- Arab countries.
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| SUBJECT |
Lebanon -- History -- Civil War, 1975-1990.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85075636
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| LC no. |
2002489504 |
| ISBN |
0863568149 |
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