TY  - BOOK
AU  - Droeber,Julia
TI  - The dynamics of coexistence in the Middle East: negotiating boundaries between Christians, Muslims, Jews and Samaritans 
T2  - Library of modern Middle East studies
SN  - 1780765274 (hbk.) :
AV  - BL1640 .D76 2014
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - London, New York
PB  - I.B. Tauris
KW  - Religious communities
KW  - West Bank
KW  - Nablus
KW  - Religious minorities
KW  - Religion
N1  - Subtitle on Jacket and spine: Negotiating boundaries between Christians, Muslims, Jews and Samaritans in Palestine; Previously published: 2013; Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-231) and index
N2  - Palestine is often characterised, from afar, as being plagued by insurmountable difference and violent conflict along religious and ethnic lines. Julia Droeber looks beyond this, as she draws out the way in which sameness and difference is constructed and dealt with in the day to day relationships and practices of different religious communities in the West Bank town of Nablus. She follows the reality of coexistence and the constant negotiation of boundaries between Christians, Muslims and one of the last remaining Samaritan communities worldwide, and how these relationships are complicated by an occupier perceived as 'Jewish'. This is a sensitive and nuanced study of cultural and religious space in a much-contested region. It illustrates how differences are reconciled, accommodated and emphasised, while existing alongside a common sense of belonging. Droeber's findings resonate beyond the town of Nablus, and the West Bank, and into the broader fields of Middle East Studies, Anthropology, Comparative Religion and Peace and Conflict Resolution Studies
ER  -