Palestinian Christian Politics in Comparative Perspective
The Case of Jerusalem's Churches and the Indigenous Arab Christians
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19517838 |
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| Authors | Samuel J Kuruvilla (Post-Doctoral Fellow School of International Relations and Politics Mahatma Gandhi University Priyadarshini Hills P. O. Kottayam-686 560, Kerala, India, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 199-228 |
| Publication date | 2011-11-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Holy Land Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1474-9475 • E-ISSN: 1750-0125 |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3366/hls.2011.0015 |
| OpenAlex | W2028950819 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
The rapid development of the Palestinian national struggle from a rebel guerrilla movement in the 1960s and 1970s to an organisation with many of the attributes of an organised state in the 1980s and 1990s contributed to the politicisation of the Palestinian Christian church in Palestine-Israel. During this period, certain Israeli policies that included land confiscations, church and property destruction, building restrictions and a consequent mass emigration of the faithful, all contributed to a new restrictive climate of political intolerance being faced by the churches. The 1990s and 2000s saw the start and doom of the Oslo ‘peace process’ between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organisation as well as the fruition of many Israeli territorial and settlement policies regarding the Old City and mainly Arab-inhabited East Jerusalem as well as the West Bank of historic Palestine. Church-State relations plummeted to their lowest point in decades during this period. The results of the suspicion and distrust created by these experiences continue to dog the mutual relations of Israelis, Palestinian Christians and Muslims in the Holy Land
Ancient history · Distrust · Emigration · Indigenous · Palestine · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts · Middle East Politics and Society
| Highly cited | No |
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