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Colonialism and Christianity in Mandate Palestine

Robson, Laura.

Colonialism and Christianity in Mandate Palestine [electronic resource] / Laura Robson. - 1st ed. - Austin : University of Texas Press, 2011. - 1 online resource (xii, 227 p. :) maps ; - Jamal and Rania Daniel series in contemporary history, politics, culture, and religion of the Levant . - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Palestinian Christian elites from the late Ottoman era to the British Mandate -- Reinventing the Millet system: British imperial policy and the making of communal politics -- The Arab Orthodox movement -- Appropriating sectarianism: the brief emergence of pan-Christian communalism, 1929-1936 -- Palestinian Arab Episcopalians under mandate -- Epilogue: the consequences of sectarianism.

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Mandates--Palestine.
Palestinian Arabs--Religion.
Christianity and politics--History--Palestine--20th century.


Palestine--Church history--20th century.


Electronic books.

BR1110 / .R63 2011

322/.109569409041