| Dilemmas of Attachment: Identity and Belonging Among Palestinian Christians Contributor(s): Kårtveit, Bård (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004271465 ISBN-13: 9789004271463 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $143.45 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - General - Social Science | Anthropology - General - Religion | Christianity - General |
| Dewey: 305.67 |
| LCCN: 2014023826 |
| Series: Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East an |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.3" W x 9.4" (1.10 lbs) 258 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book offers an ethnographic account of contemporary Christian Palestinian lives in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Through individual life stories, B rd K rtveit 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. |