Hopes and frustrations of Lebanese Christians - Monika Langrock
Hopes and frustrations of Lebanese Christians - Monika Langrock A Monika Langrock ft er the end of the Lebanese civil war (1990), the Lebanese Christian community found itself in a collective…
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Hopes and frustrations of Lebanese Christians - Monika Langrock
A Monika Langrock ft er the end of the Lebanese civil war (1990), the Lebanese Christian community found itself in a collective identity crisis. How did the Christians try to cope with it? The term al-’ihbat al-masihi, meaning disenchantment or frustration, started to be used in order to describe their political and psychological condition.
However, the Lebanese Christians have been asking the same question since decades. Th e question of extinction of the Eastern Christianity, asked by the Western public, is oft en asked superfi cially; it is marked by anxiety and fear.