Based on interviews with Lebanese in over 150 mixed-religion marriages and their extended family members, I argue that sect may conceal or stand in for other forms of difference, including ideas about status and hierarchy related to class and regional origin in Lebanon. Because it is the most readily available discourse for understanding social difference, parents often use sectarian rhetoric to describe their concerns about a variety of problems they see in their children's chosen partners. By listening between the lines of parental objections, I suggest that expressions of bias against people of other sects may mask concerns with other forms of social difference, in effect reducing a complex and shifting social field of multiple axes of difference into sect. Rather than assume sectarianism's a priori importance, this approach allows me to bring other discourses of difference and analytic lenses to the foreground.

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超越宗派主义：黎巴嫩的通婚和社会差异

根据对 150 多起混合宗教婚姻及其大家庭成员的采访，我认为该教派可能隐藏或代表其他形式的差异，包括与黎巴嫩的阶级和地区血统有关的地位和等级观念。因为它是理解社会差异的最容易获得的话语，所以父母经常使用宗派修辞来描述他们对他们在孩子选择的伴侣身上看到的各种问题的担忧。通过倾听父母的反对意见，我建议对其他教派人士的偏见表达可能会掩盖对其他形式的社会差异的担忧，实际上将复杂的、多轴差异的社会领域减少到教派中。与其假设宗派主义的先验重要性，