ISBN:
9789004271463
Language:
English
Pages:
XVII, 239 S.
,
Ill., Kt.
,
25 cm
Series Statement:
Social, economic and political studies of the Middle East and Asia 112
Series Statement:
Social, economic and political studies of the Middle East and Asia
DDC:
305.6/756953
Keywords:
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
;
Christentum
;
Politik
;
Soziale Stellung
;
Christentum
;
Nationalbewusstsein
;
Bethlehem / Religious life and customs
;
Bethlehem / Ethnic relations
;
Palestine / Politics and government
;
Palästinensische Autonomiegebiete
;
Biografie
;
Palästinensische Autonomiegebiete
;
Christentum
;
Soziale Stellung
;
Nationalbewusstsein
Abstract:
"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
