Dilemmas of attachment
Subtitle: identity and belonging among Palestinian Christians
By: by Bard Helge Kartveit
Series: Social, economic and political studies of the Middle East and Asia (S.E.P.S.M.E.A.) -- volume 112
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Leiden
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9789004271463; 9789004276390
Subjects: Christians; Social conditions; Biography; Religious life and customs; Ethnic relations; Islam; Relations; Christianity; Politics and government; Social change
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 224-236) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Palestinian Christians in the West Bank; title: Bethlehem between Tradition and Modernity; title: Christian-Muslim Relations; title: National Identity, Attachments and Solidarity; title: The Israeli Occupation; title: Bethlehem Emigration and Diaspora Relations; title: Conclusion and Epilogue; title: Appendices.