Lebanon
Religiously plural — Sunni and Shia Muslim, Maronite Christian, Druze, smaller minorities; sectarian power-sharing and family identification through confession.
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Lebanon is mixed Muslim as a country. The dominant religious context is: Religiously plural — Sunni and Shia Muslim, Maronite Christian, Druze, smaller minorities; sectarian power-sharing and family identification through confession.
Lebanon has both Sunni and Shia communities, and exits from each look slightly different inside the family even when the wider patterns are similar. The pillar page on Islam will be the closest fit.
Leaving in Lebanon carries real community cost in a way that the broader Western experience often does not capture. Family rupture is common. Local religious communities are often dense, and stepping out of one is closer to immigrating than to changing a hobby.