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Our Lady of Lebanon Maronite Catholic Church in Brooklyn, New York belongs to the Uniate Eastern Rite of the larger Catholic Church. As the head church of the Eastern Eparchy of the United States, Our Lady of Lebanon can be considered influential among Maronite churches in Ameri…

Among the Maronites, a Lebanon-based indigenous Christian community in communion with the Roman Catholic Church, funeral rituals play a central social role. These rituals both inform us about the local attitudes toward life and death and give us access to old practices that were…

The intent of this dissertation is to trace the genealogy of Maronite identity through an examination of the development of the historical tradition that shaped its contemporary manifestation. It examines how the current identity of the Lebanese Maronite community was formed and…

This research questions and challenges the assumptions made about Lebanese Maronite Christians and their relation with the establishment of the State of Greater Lebanon. It focuses on three overlapping aspects of their identity - national, linguistic and religious - in order to …