A liminal church : refugees, conversions and the Latin diocese of Jerusalem, 1946-1956 / / Maria Chiara Rioli.

• Superior document: Open Jerusalem (Series) ; Volume 2
• VerfasserIn: Rioli, Maria Chiara, 1984-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Open Jerusalem (Series) ; Volume 2.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

The history of Palestine War does not only concern military history. It also involves social, humanitarian and religious history, as in the case of Jerusalem’s Roman Catholic diocese. Tribulationis Tempore offers a complex narrative on this church, commonly portrayed as monolithically aligned with anti-Zionist and anti-Muslim positions during the “long 1948”. Making use of largely unpublished archives in the Middle East, Europe and the United States, including the recently released Pius XII papers, Maria Chiara Rioli depicts a church engaged in multiple and sometimes contradictory pastoral initiatives amid battles, relief missions for Palestinian refugees, theological reflections on Jewish converts to Catholicism, political relations with the Israeli and Jordanian authorities and liturgical responses to this fluid and uncertain scenario.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Map -- Abbreviations -- Note on Transliteration -- Introduction: From Jerusalem to the Archives -- Prologue: Nostalgia for an Invented Past and Concern for the Future: the Latin Diocese of Jerusalem from Its Reestablishment to the Second World War (1847–1945) -- 1 Palestine and Transjordan in Transition (1945–47) -- 2 Into the Breach -- 3 A “Wounded” Diocese: the Patriarchate of Refugees -- 4 After 1948: the Difficult Mediation -- 5 The Association of Saint James and the Foundation of a Hebrew-Christian Church in Israel -- 6 Between Rome and Jerusalem -- 7 Cults and Politics in the Shadow of Holy Places -- 8 1956: a Hinge Year -- Epilogue: Opening a New Phase: Toward the Second Vatican Council and the 1967 War -- Conclusion: From the Archives to Jerusalem -- Bibliography -- Index.