A study of cultural and religious space in a much-contested region. It illustrates how differences are reconciled, accommodated and emphasised, while existing alongside a common sense of belonging.
"Palestine is often characterised, from afar, as being plagued by insurmountable difference and violent conflict along religious and ethnic lines. Julia Droeber looks beyond this, as she draws out the way in which sameness and difference is constructed and dealt with in the day …
Examines the way in which sameness and difference is constructed and dealt with in the day-to-day relationships and practices of different religious communities in the West Bank town of Nablus.
Iris Murdoch's funny and sad novel is about religion, the fight between good and evil and the terrible accidents of human frailty.
This title is with an introduction by A. S. Byatt. Dora Greenfield, erring wife, returns to live with her husband in a lay community encamped outside Imber Abbey, home to a mysterious enclosed order of nuns. Watched over by its devout director and the discreet authority of the w…
The bell
by Murdoch, Iris, (Jean Iris), Byatt, A.S., (Antonia Susan Drabble)
fromVintage classics
Als in een nonnenklooster een nieuwe klok wordt opgehangen, wordt onverwacht de oude gevonden.