Muslim-Christian Conflicts
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Muslim-Christian Conflicts: Economic,Political,and Social Origins
edited by Suad Joseph and Barbara L. K. Pillsbury
What does religion mean in people's daily lives? In what ways is it a component of ethnic identity? How do religious identities and structures relate to other social identities and structures and to political and economic institutions and behavior? How can Muslim-Christian relations be understood in the context of the emergence of the world capitalist system? These are some of the questions addressed by the authors of this volume. Their collective goal--growing out of a desire to understand the continuing war in Lebanon--is to study the circumstances under which religious differences become politically salient.
Suad Joseph is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of California, Davis; she received her Ph.D. at Columbia University, where her research focused on the politicization of religious sects in Lebanon.
Barbara L. K. Pillsbury is associate proressor or anthropology at San Diego State University and consultant to the Near East Bureau of the U.S. Agency for International Development. She also holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University.
Muslim-Christian Conflicts: Economic, Political, and Social Origins
edited by Suad Joseph and Barbara L. K. Pillsbury
Foreword by Charles Issawi
First published 1978 by Westview Press
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To those who struggle to demystify religion and to those who suffer and die because the struggle is yet unfinished.
PETER S. ALLEN is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Rhode Island College and since 1973 the staff ethnologist of the American Schools of Oriental Research Joint Expedition to Idalion, Cyprus. He received his Ph.D. from Brown University in 1973. His dissertation dealt with social and economic change in southern Greece where he has carried out extensive research. He is the author of several articles on population and change in Greece.
ROBERT DONIA conducted research on Bosnian Muslim history in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, during 1974-75 and has written a dissertation titled "The Politics of Factionalism: The Bosnian Moslems in Transition, 1878-1906." He received a Ph.D. in history from the University of Michigan in 1976 and is now Assistant Professor of History at the Ohio State University Lima Campus.
SONDRA HALE is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at California State University at Northridge. Between 1961 and 1975 she spent six years teaching and conducting research in Sudan. Her publications include Nubians: A Study in Ethnic Identity (1971); "Migrants in Omdurman and Juba, Sudan" (1971); Sudan Urban Studies (1971 co-editor); "Nubians in an Urban Milieu" (1973); and "Voluntary/Regional Associations in Sudan" (1978). Her doctorate in anthropology is expected from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1978.
SUAD JOSEPH is Assistant Professor at the University of California at Davis. She received her Ph.D. in 1975 from Columbia University after conducting research on the politicization of religious sects in Lebanon. Her research also covered women's networks,. voluntary associations, the development of the Lebanese working class. Her publications include several articles on Lebanese urban women, Arab Americans, Lebanese national youth policies and voluntary organizations.
WILLIAM G. LOCKWOOD is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. He was born in California in 1933 and received his Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1970. He has conducted fieldwork in Yugoslavia, Mexico, Turkey, the United States, and, currently, among the Croatian minority in Austria. His publications include European Moslems; Ethnicity and Economy in Western Bosnia (New York: Academic Press, 1975).
LAUREL D. MAILLOUX obtained a Ph.D. in anthropology from Wayne State University in 1974. Her doctoral research was conducted in North Lebanon from 19 71 to 1972. In addition she has done research in India and the United States. She was an Assistant Professor at Wayne State University from 1973-1977. Some of her publications include "An Arab Moslem Community in Michigan" (1970), "Arab Nationalism in America" (1975), and "The 1975-1976 War in Lebanon: Beyond the Cross and Crescent" (1977). She is presently working with the United States Agency for International Development.
BARBARA L.K. PILLSBURY is Associate Professor of Anthropology at San Diego State University and currently consultant to the Near East Bureau of the United States Agency for International Development. She studied and taught in Cairo, Egypt, in 1968-1969. In 1973 she received a Ph.D. from Columbia University having carried out two years' research among Chinese Muslims. In 1975 she conducted research investigation in the Southern Philippines. She is author of several articles and of Mosque and Pagoda : Muslim Ethnicity in China .
