Palestinian Christians in Israel : state attitudes towards non-Muslims in a Jewish state / Una McGahern.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McGahern, Una.

Series:

Durham modern Middle East and Islamic world series ; 22.

Durham modern Middle East and Islamic world ; 22

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christians--Israel.

Christians.

Palestinian Arabs--Israel--Religion.

Palestinian Arabs.

Church history.

Church and state.

Israel.

Religion.

Church and state--Israel.

Israel--Church history.

Physical Description:

201 pages : map ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2011.

Summary:

Although Christians form a significant proportion of the Palestinian Arab minority in Israel, very little research has, until now, been undertaken to examine their complicated position within Israel. This book demonstrates the limits of analyses which characterise state-minority relations in Israel in terms of a so-called Jewish-Muslim conflict, and of studies which portray Palestinian Christians as part of a wider exclusively religious-based transnational Christian community.

This book locates its analysis of Palestinian Christians within a broader understanding of Israel as a Jewish ethnocratic state. It describes the main characteristics of the Palestinian Christian community in Israel and examines a number of problematic assumptions which have been made about them and their relationship to the state. Finally, it examines a number of intracommunal conflicts which have taken place in recent years between Christians and Muslims, and between Christians and Druze, and probes the role which the state and various state attitudes have played in influencing or determining those conflicts and, as a result, the general status of Palestinian Christians in Israel today. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction

Society, state & minority policy in Israel

Profile of the Palestinian Christians in Israel

Writing the Palestinian Christians in Israel

Locating state attitudes

Conflict in Nazareth

Military service and village conflict

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [182]-197) and index.

ISBN:

9780415605717

0415605717

9780203806647

0203806646

OCLC:

668197133

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