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A Liminal Church - Refugees, Conversions and the Latin Diocese of Jerusalem, 1946-1956 (Hardcover)
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A Liminal Church - Refugees, Conversions and the Latin Diocese of Jerusalem, 1946-1956 (Hardcover)
Series: Open Jerusalem, 2
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The history of the Palestine War does not only concern military
history. It also involves social, humanitarian and religious
history, as in the case of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Jerusalem.
A Liminal Church offers a complex narrative of the Latin
patriarchal diocese, commonly portrayed as monolithically aligned
with anti-Zionist and anti-Muslim positions during the "long" year
of 1948. Making use of largely unpublished archives in the Middle
East, Europe and the United States, including the recently released
Pius XII papers, Maria Chiara Rioli depicts a church engaged in
multiple and sometimes contradictory pastoral initiatives, amid
harsh battles, relief missions for Palestinian refugees,
theological reflections on Jewish converts to Catholicism,
political relations with the Israeli and Jordanian authorities, and
liturgical responses to a fluid and uncertain scenario. The pieces
of this history include the Jerusalem grand mufti's appeal to Pius
XII to support the Arab cause, the Catholic liturgies for peace and
international mobilization during the Palestine War and Suez
crisis, refugees petitioning the patriarch for aid, and Jewish
converts establishing Christian kibbutzim. New archival collections
and records reveal hidden aspects of the lives of women, children
and other silenced actors, faith communities and religious
institutions during and after 1948, connecting narratives that have
been marginalized by a dominant historiography more focused on
military campaigns or confessional conflicts. A Liminal Church
weaves diocesan history with global history. In the momentous
decade from 1946 to 1956, the study of the transnational Jerusalem
Latin diocese, as split between Israel, Jordan, Egypt and Cyprus,
with ties to diaspora and religious international networks and
comprising clergy from all over the world, attests to the
possibilities of contrapuntal narratives, reintroducing complexity
to a deeply and painfully polarized debate, exposing false
assumptions and situating changes and ruptures in a long-term
perspective.
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