Intermarriage between Christians and Muslims : a West Bank study

Abe W. Ata
Ringwood, Vic. : David Lovell Publishing, 2000

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Book description

The study focuses on marriages between Muslim and Christian Palestinians in the West Bank, a relatively recent phenomenon. Among the themes explored are:
- the ways in which the two cultural groups interact;
- whether intermarriage strengthens or weakens the individual's sense of cultural identity;
- factors facilitating such intermarriages;
- the various tensions that arise in such intermarriages;
- gender roles within intermarriage;
- the effects on children, both in present family relationships and their prospects for the future;
- implications for the wider Palestinian society. [Publisher's website]

About the author

Dr Abe Ata has held an Honorary Research Fellowship in the School of Political and Social Inquiry at Monash University since 1998. Dr Ata has taught in Australian, American, Jordanian, Palestinian and Danish universities. He has some 72 articles and eight books to his credit, including Religion and Ethnic Identity: An Australian Study (1989-1990), The West Bank Palestinian Family (1986), The Ethnic Press in Australia (1990), Bereavement and Health in Australia (1995).

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