Palestine, between shame and hope: a psycho-religious reading

Abstract

This essay proposes the thesis that the Palestinian people experience shame, both individually and collectively. This shameness depends on the sociocultural and religious-cultural conditions of their experience. However, this experience also encompasses positive socio-emotional experiences, such as pride, which has the potential, both individually and collectively, to connect the sociopolitical with the psycho-religious—that is, to offer a psychological perspective on the religious, the cultural, and the political