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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.

Christians --- Palestinian Arabs --- Religious adherents --- Arab Palestinians --- Arabs --- Arabs in Palestine --- Palestinians --- Ethnology --- Social conditions. --- Bethlehem --- Betʻghehēm --- Viḟleem --- Viḟleem Īudeĭskīĭ --- Ėfraḟa --- Gorod Davidov --- Selenīe Viḟleemskoe --- Bayt Laḥm --- Beit Lehem --- Bethleem --- Bet Leḥem --- Ephrata --- Ephrathah --- Ephrath --- Religious life and customs. --- Christian biography --- Islam --- Christianity and other religions --- Social change --- Chrétiens --- Palestiniens --- Biographies chrétiennes --- Christianisme --- Changement social --- Social conditions --- Relations --- Christianity. --- Islam. --- Conditions sociales --- Palästinensische Autonomiegebiete. --- Palestine --- Bethléem --- Ethnic relations. --- Politics and government. --- Vie religieuse --- Relations interethniques --- Politique et gouvernement