Abraham the Settler, Jesus the Refugee:Contemporary Conflict and Christianity on the Road to Bethlehem

By examining tour brochures, practices of landscape display, posters and tour guiding narrations, I seek to understand how Bethlehem and the ““separation wall”” between Jerusalem and Bethlehem are integrated into the experience of Western Christian pilgrims of a variety of theological orientations....

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Published in:	History and memory 2011-03, Vol.23 (1), p.62-95
Main Author:	Feldman, Jackie
Format:	Article
Language:	eng
Subjects:	Arab-Israeli conflict Arab-Israeli conflicts Attitudes Bethlehem Bethlehem (Palestine) Bible Brochures Christian history Christianity Christians City walls Description and travel folk rituals Historic buildings & sites History History, Jewish studies Israel Israel-Arab conflicts Israeli West Bank Barrier Israeli-Palestinian conflict Jewish refugees Jewish studies Narratives pilgrimage Pilgrimages Pilgrims and pilgrimages Politics Refugees Religion Religious aspects Religious places religious rites rites Social aspects Suicide bombings Theology Tourism Travel United States wall Western Asia Zionism
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Summary:	By examining tour brochures, practices of landscape display, posters and tour guiding narrations, I seek to understand how Bethlehem and the ““separation wall”” between Jerusalem and Bethlehem are integrated into the experience of Western Christian pilgrims of a variety of theological orientations. I argue that current practices of display and narration promote particular political views of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and lend them authority by saturating them with particular Christian meanings and associations. The study contributes to our understanding of pilgrimage as a site of contested discourses in which local actors sacralize the landscape while making their understandings of the conflict seem self-evident and divinely justified.
ISSN:	0935-560X 1527-1994 1527-1994