Inside the Lebanese Confessional Mind

Inside the Lebanese Confessional Mind is noteworthy in three regards. First, the study applies survey research to the analysis of confessional conflict in Lebanon. As such, it provides empirical data on an issue vital to Lebanon's future as an independent country. Secondly, the data reported in the study are compared to the results of survey research conducted in the years prior to the civil war. In so doing, it places current attitudes toward confessionalism in a longitudinal perspective. Thirdly, and perhaps most importantly, the study integrates its survey data with a vast array of qualitative studies concerning the confessional problem in Lebanon. Survey research is used to augment more traditional modes of scholarship. Contents: The Unmaking of Lebanese Society; The Contours of the Study; The Ecological Profile: Some Relevant Aspects of Differentiation; Internal Group Mechanism; Basic Political Orientations; Functional Requisites of Modern Political Behavior; Determinants of Inter-Group Perceptions; The Second Republic and the Future; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.