"This comparative ethnography of a Muslim and a Christian Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon focuses on contrasting social belonging processes through a ritualization approach. Leonardo Schiocchet argues that contrasts emerge out of the intersectionality of religiosity, nationhood, refugeeness and politics, and synthesizes academic research on piety and moral self-cultivation and on the everyday-life of religious communities. He contributes to the literature on refugees at large, and Palestinian refugees in special, with the unique dense socio-historical portrait of two refugee camps for which there is almost no recorded literature." (Publisher description)
Introduction, 7
1 A Disposition toward Suspicion, 37
PART I. THE REFUGE: NATIONHOOD & RELIGION
2 Settling in Lebanon: An Oral Historical Account, 59
3 Ritual Tempo in Al-Jalil, 83
4 Ritual Tempo in Dbayeh, 113
PART II. RITUAL, TIME AND RESISTANCE
5 On Ritual, Religion, and Time, 159
6 Al-sumid: Sacralization and Ritualization of Palestinianness, 183
7 Economies of Trust, 201
8 Conclusion, 231