Religious Minorities in the Middle East - Domination, Self-Empowerment, Accommodation

Focusing on the situation of both Muslim and non-Muslim religious minorities in the Middle East, this volume offers an analysis of various strategies of resilience and accommodation from a historical as well a contemporary perspective.

About the author

Anh Nga Longva is Professor in Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen (Norway). She has published extensively on minority issues in Norway, the Arab Gulf, and Lebanon.
Anne Sofie Roald is Professor in Religious Studies and Senior Researcher and former head of the research program Politics of Faith at Chr. Michelsen Institute, Bergen, Norway. Her publications deal mainly with gender issues, conversion, multiculturalism, Islamism, and Arab media.

Contributors include: Maurits H. van den Boogert, Nazlı Çağın Bilgili, Ali Çarkoğlu, Grégoire Delhaye, Kais M. Firro, Bård Kårtveit, Catherine Le Thomas, Anh Nga Longva, Laurence Louër, Elizabeth Picard, Annika Rabo, Anne Sofie Roald, Eliz Sanasarian, Michael Stausberg, and Margit Warburg

Product details

• Assisted by: Anh Nga Longva (Editor), Anne Sofie Roald (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.01.2015
• EAN: 9789004290440
• ISBN: 978-90-04-29044-0
• No. of pages: 380
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 239 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 567 g
• Series: Social, Economic and Political
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics