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Author Weaver, Alain Epp

Title Mapping exile and return : Palestinian dispossession and a political theology for a shared future / Alain Epp Weaver
Published Minneapolis, Minnesota : Fortress Press, 2014
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Description 1 online resource (192 pages) : illustrations, tables
Contents "Homecoming is out of the question": Palestinian refugee cartography and Edward Said's view from exile -- Reclaiming the place of exile for political theology -- Kafr Barʻam, Elias Chacour, and the arboreal imagination -- Return visits to ʻImwas and the liturgical subversion of ethnocratic topology
Summary One of the most persistent, if vexing, issues facing not just theology but also political theory, sociology, and other disciplines, is the ongoing Palestinian-Israeli conflict. For theology, the problem is especially nettlesome on account of the church s shared history and tradition with Israel. Palestinians, including Palestinian Christians, bear the brunt of suffering and dispossession in the current situation, yet are burdened even more by Christian political appropriation of Zionism. Through an analysis of Palestinian refugee mapping practices for returning to their homeland, Alain Epp Weaver takes up the troubled issue of Palestinian dispossession and argues against the political theology embedded in Zionist cartographic practices that refuse and seek to eliminate evidence of co-existence. Instead, Alain Epp Weaver offers a political theology of redrawing the territory compatible with a bi-national vision for a shared Palestinian-Israeli future
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 8, 2014)
Subject Arab-Israeli conflict.
Palestinian Arabs -- History -- 20th century.
Zionism.
Political theology.
HISTORY -- Middle East -- General.
RELIGION -- Christianity -- Shaker.
Arab-Israeli conflict
Palestinian Arabs
Political theology
Zionism
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781451479683
1451479689