Religious exclusion that did not properly work: South Lebanese Christian land at stake

Based on fieldwork and intensive interviews conducted in the last three year in South Lebanon and by specific reference to a Summer 2013 case of inter-religious transaction in a Christian area, this paper aim to shed lights on the increasing dichotomy between the consociational national level and the highly sectarian local level. By looking at the way religion acts as a surrogate of ethno-nationalism, the inter-religious property transaction case study will help to understand how local control was defied and customary local rules based on community self-control jeopardized.