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Author Kårtveit, Bård Helge

Title Dilemmas of attachment : identity and belonging among Palestinian Christians / by Bard Helge Kartveit
Published Leiden : Brill, [2014]
©2014

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 239 pages) : colour illustrations, colour maps
Series Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia ; volume 112
Social, economic, and political studies of the Middle East and Asia ; 112.
Contents Introduction: Palestinian Christians in the West Bank -- Bethlehem between Tradition and Modernity -- Christian-Muslim Relations -- National Identity, Attachments and Solidarity -- The Israeli Occupation -- Bethlehem Emigration and Diaspora Relations -- Conclusion and Epilogue -- Appendices
Summary "This book offers an ethnographic account of contemporary Christian Palestinian lives in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Through individual life stories, Bård Kårtveit shows how Christians in the District of Bethlehem strive to live meaningful lives. Lives which are shaped by Christian-Muslim relations within the national community, the impact of Israeli presence in the Palestinian Territories, migration and homeland-diaspora relationships, and which are heavily influenced by changes in their local community and traditional family structures. By situating these stories in the changing political contexts of Palestine, from late Ottoman to Israeli/Palestinian Authority rule, the author engages with these general processes of patriarchal resistance to social change; the role of minorities in nation-building processes; the impact of Western interventions in the region; the rise of political Islam; and the impact of emigration in the Arab World"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Christians -- West Bank -- Bethlehem -- Social conditions
Palestinian Arabs -- West Bank -- Bethlehem -- Social conditions
Christian biography -- West Bank -- Bethlehem
Palestinian Arabs -- West Bank -- Bethlehem -- Biography
Islam -- Relations -- Christianity.
Christianity and other religions -- Islam.
Social change -- Palestine
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Christian biography
Christianity
Christians -- Social conditions
Ethnic relations
Interfaith relations
Islam
Palestinian Arabs
Palestinian Arabs -- Social conditions
Politics and government
Social change
Christentum
Soziale Stellung
Christ
Nationalbewusstsein
SUBJECT Bethlehem -- Religious life and customs
Bethlehem -- Ethnic relations
Palestine -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85097180
Subject Middle East -- Palestine
West Bank -- Bethlehem
Palästinensische Autonomiegebiete
Genre/Form collective biographies.
Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789004276390
9004276394