Dilemmas of attachment : : identity and belonging among Palestinian Christians / / by Bard Helge Kartveit.

• Superior document: Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia (S.E.P.S.M.E.A.), Volume 112
• VerfasserIn: Kårtveit, Bård Helge,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2014.; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Social, economic, and political studies of the Middle East and Asia ; Volume 112.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (257 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Bård Helge Kårtveit -- Introduction: Palestinian Christians in the West Bank / Bård Helge Kårtveit -- Bethlehem between Tradition and Modernity / Bård Helge Kårtveit -- Christian-Muslim Relations: Land, Law and Family Protection / Bård Helge Kårtveit -- National Identity, Attachments and Solidarity / Bård Helge Kårtveit -- The Israeli Occupation: A Politics of Paralysis / Bård Helge Kårtveit -- Bethlehem Emigration and Diaspora Relations / Bård Helge Kårtveit -- Conclusion and Epilogue / Bård Helge Kårtveit -- Appendices / Bård Helge Kårtveit -- References / Bård Helge Kårtveit -- Index / Bård Helge Kårtveit.