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Eastern Christian Subjectivities and Islam’s Hegemony in the Arab World

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This chapter analyzes the historical and contemporary relationship between Christians and organized Christianity and the politics in Muslim-majority societies. The basic assumption here is that to study Middle East Christianity it is necessary to understand Islamic societal or cultural hegemony respectively. In doing so, it is argued that Islam often works as a regime of truth, a salient signifier for social identities, and a superstructure for state–society relation. In these circumstances, Middle East Christianity—although divers and heterogeneous—has its space for action and a certain position in the socially widespread power relations, which are permanently contested, and therefore need to be consistently reproduced discursively. The chapter draws from concrete conditions and cases from Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan. Theoretically, it resorts to discourse theoretical approaches with a particular focus on the concepts of hegemony, power, and subjectivation.

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  1. National Center for Crime Prevention, Bonn, Germany

    Mitra Moussa Nabo

  2. Bundeswehr University Munich, Munich, Germany

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    Mitra Moussa Nabo

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Moussa Nabo, M. (2020). Eastern Christian Subjectivities and Islam’s Hegemony in the Arab World. In: Stetter, S., Moussa Nabo, M. (eds) Middle East Christianity. The Modern Muslim World. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37011-4_2

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