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Religious Minorities in the Middle East. Domination, Self-empowerment, Accommodation, LONGVA AN & ROALD AS (Ed.) (2012) 230-255

Conclusion: Nation-Building and Minority Rights in the Middle East, Elizabeth Picard

Elizabeth Picard 1

(2012-01-09)

The current "minority crisis" in the Middle East can be considered an existential crisis as it tends to exclude hundreds of thousands of members of religious minorities from the public sphere and political life, while multidimensional violence force many of them to take refuge abroad. This chapter adopts a perspective of political sociology in order to shed light on the complex relation between the local political power which claims sovereignty and the exclusive use of "legitimate violence" - "the state" - on the one hand, and victimized and powerless religious communities, on the other hand.

1:	Institut de Recherches et d'Etudes sur le Monde Arabe et Musulman (IREMAM)
	CNRS : UMR6568 – Université de Provence - Aix-Marseille I – Université de la Méditerranée - Aix-Marseille II – Université Paul Cézanne - Aix-Marseille III

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Humanities and Social Sciences/Political science

Keyword(s): elites strategies minorities citzenship

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