Several contributions to this issue of the Jerusalem Quarterly address the place of shrines, holy sites, and religious festivals within Palestinian society. Over the past two centuries – and especially since 1948 – these spaces and events have undergone radical transformations, reshaped by the modernization of religion and the rise of nationalism, but most radically by the settler-colonial ethos of exclusionary appropriation that has characterized the Zionist project in Palestine. This issue of JQ also features two sections devoted to current and ongoing concerns for Palestinians in and beyond Jerusalem. The first of these is education; the second is a roundtable on health and environment.
JQ 95 is now available online and in paper form.
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