Palestinian Christians in Israel - State Attitudes Towards Non-Muslims in a Jewish State

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 intra-communal 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.

Table des matières

1. Introduction 2. Society, State & Minority Policy in Israel 3. Profile of the Palestinian Christians in Israel 4. Writing the Palestinian Christians in Israel 5. Locating State Attitudes 6. Conflict in Nazareth 7. Military Service and Village Conflict

A propos de l'auteur

Una McGahern is a Research Fellow at the School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University, UK.

Résumé

This book explores the complicated position of Christian Palestinians within Israel. It reveals the limitations of typical analyses which characterise the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a Jewish-Muslim conflict or which consider Christian Palestinians' primary identity residing within the wider transnational Christian community.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Una Mcgahern, Una (Durham University Mcgahern, McGahern Una
• Edition: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 23.09.2013
• EAN: 9780415728263
• ISBN: 978-0-415-72826-3
• Pages: 216
• Thème: Durham Modern Middle East and Islamic World Series
• Catégories: Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sciences politiques > Sciences politiques et formation politique; Sociology, Linguistics, RELIGION / Christianity / Anglican, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, Society & culture: general, RELIGION / Comparative Religion, Middle East, Religion: general, Christianity, Politics & government, Regional Studies, Literature: history & criticism, Politics and government, Regional / International studies, Society and culture: general, Literature: history and criticism