Dilemmas of Attachment: Identity and Belonging Among Palestinian Christians

Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-90-04-27146-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 112, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

Reihe: Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kårtveit, Bård

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Religionsethnologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Politische Ethnologie, Recht, Organisation, Identität
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Katholische Kirchen in Lateinamerika, Afrika, Indien und Asien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction: Palestinian Christians in the West Bank
Ch. 1: Bethlehem between tradition and modernity
Ch. 2: Christian-Muslim relations: land, law and family protection
Ch. 3: National identity, attachments and solidarity
Ch. 4: The Israeli occupation: a politics of paralysis
Ch. 5: Bethlehem emigration and diaspora relations
Conclusion and epilogue
Appendices
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Bård Helge Kårtveit, Ph.D.(2010), University of Oslo, is a Post Doctoral Researcher at The Department of Cultural Studies and Oriental Languages. He has published several articles in Palestine, with a special focus on migration and on Christian-Muslim relations among Palestinians.