On the Jesuit-Maronite Provenance of Lebanon's Criminalization of Homosexuality
Article 534 of the Lebanese Penal Code, effectively, criminalizes homosexual practices. Most commentators have claimed that its existence in modern Lebanon is a "colonial relic," specifically of the French Mandate, 1920-1946. But since 1791, French penal codes have not criminalized same-se...
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2020]
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Journal of law and religion
Jahr: 2020, Band: 35, Heft: 3, Seiten: 380-406 |
| normierte Schlagwort(-folgen): | B
Libanon
/ Strafgesetz
/ Homosexualität
/ Kriminalisierung
/ Jesuiten
/ Maroniten
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| RelBib Classification: | CB Christliche Existenz; Spiritualität KBL Naher Osten; Nordafrika KCA Orden; Mönchtum XA Recht |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
Lebanon
B Maronite B Jesuit B Aquinas B Article 534 B Sectarianism B conviviendum B same-sex relations B France B Confessionalism |
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| Zusammenfassung: | Article 534 of the Lebanese Penal Code, effectively, criminalizes homosexual practices. Most commentators have claimed that its existence in modern Lebanon is a "colonial relic," specifically of the French Mandate, 1920-1946. But since 1791, French penal codes have not criminalized same-sex relations. I argue, instead, that Article 534 was the product of native religious, legal, and moral thinking among the Maronites, reinforced by the Thomistic and post-Tridentine moral theology taught in Lebanon by the Jesuit missions. Thomistic and post-Tridentine moral theology classified same-sex relations as worthy of condemnation as "unnatural acts" - the same language used in Article 534. Therefore, as a product of Lebanese political and religious sectarianism, Article 534 is a specific case of a congenial collaboration of Jesuit moral theology and a conservative Maronite ethical and legal koine. |
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| ISSN: | 2163-3088 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Journal of law and religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/jlr.2019.42 |