Don Seeman
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- Phenomenological Anthropology, Jewish Thought, Religious Studies, Jewish Studies, Medical Anthropology, Ethnography, and 134 moreExistential Phenomenological Psychotherapy, Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, contemporary continental philosophy, axiology (theories and applied research on values), philosophical and cultural anthropology, diversity managment, gender studies, intercultural communication, and translations studies, Jewish Mysticism, Anthropology, Israel Studies, Maimonides, Sociology, Levinas, Hasidism, Contemplative Studies, Religious Experience, Aristotle's Ethics, Theory, Research Methodology, Religion, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, History of Science, Ibn Bajjah (Avempace), Tulasi Srinivas, Cheryl Mattingly, Moshe Idel, Joel Robbins, Hasidic Jews, Hasidic Judaism, Anthropology of Christianity, Ethnography of Religion, Sociology of Prayer, Pentecostalism and Charismatics, Yoram Hazony, Global Pentecostalism, Habad, Habad, Shneur Zalman of Lyadi, Chabad, Chassidism, Rambam, Menachem Kellner, Rebbe Nachman of Breslov, Tanya Luhrmann, Unni Wikan, Ritual Theory, Hasidut, Alfarabi, Esh Kodesh, Judaeo Arabic Literature, Mindfulness & CBT, Mindfulness, Yehuda Ashlag, Rav Kook, Abraham Isaac Kook, Religious Zionism, Ethiopian Jews, Beta Israel, Anthropology of Judaism, Anthropology of Jewish communities, Existential Anthropology, Psychological Anthropology, Martha Nussbaum, Gershom Scholem, Anthropology of Kinship, Kinship (Anthropology), Thomas Csordas, Anthropology of the Body, Georg Simmel, Martin Buber (Philosophy), Anthropology of ethics and morality, Arthur Kleinman, Anthropology of Experience, Religion and Violence, Falasha, Anthropology of Ethiopia, Tamar Ross, Philosophy Of Friendship, Mind- Life Institute, Lubavitch Hasidism, Walter Benjamín, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Anthropology of Friendship, Paul Farmer, Shluchim (Emissaries), Anthropology of the Horn of Africa, Phenomenological Sociology, Phenomenological and Hermeneutical Approaches to Religion, Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis, Literary Approaches to Biblical Studies, Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali (d. 1111), Rabbi Kook, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, Talal Asad, Charles Taylor, medieval islam and Judaism, Orthodox Judaism, João Biehl, Honor-Shame culture, Phenomenology of Religion, Anthropology of Emotion, Comparative Mystical Literature, Cultural Phenomenology, Jerusalem, Philosophy of halakhah, Modern Jewish Thought and Theology, Greek Virtues and Emotions, Ancient Emotions, Anthropology of emotions, Sufi Psychology, Kabbalah, Christian Kabbalah, Jewish Mysticism, Lived Religion, Buddhist modernism, Religion, Conflict and Peacebuilding, Clifford Geertz, Alfred Schutz, Merleau-Ponty, Sally Falk Moore, Marcel Mauss, Don Handelman, Orson Scott Card, Modern Judaism, Transcultural Psychiatry, Kotsk, Izbica, Hasidism, Izbica, Kotsk, Hasidism, Przysucha, personal redemption, Guide for the Perplexed, Mishneh Torah, Ethiopian-European encounter, Ethiopian Immigrants, Ethiopia. Anthropology, Social Suffering, Philosophy of Human Suffering, Judaic Studies, Star Trek, Interreligious Dialogue, Ethnography of Reading, Anthropology of Religion, and Literatureedit
- Don Seeman is Associate Professor in the Department of Religion and the Tam Institute for Jewish Studies at Emory Uni... moreDon Seeman is Associate Professor in the Department of Religion and the Tam Institute for Jewish Studies at Emory University. He is co-editor of the "Contemporary Anthropology of Religion" series at Palgrave and is also the convener of the 'Emory Forum for the Ethnographic Study of Religion.' He currently holds research grants from the Social Science Research Council and the Mind-Life Institute. He received his PhD in Social and Medical Anthropology from Harvard University, where he was advised by Arthur Kleinman and also held an NIMH postdoctoral fellowship in applied medical anthropology. He works to bring together textual and ethnographic research methods and to forge new bridges between anthropology and religious studies approaches to the study of human experience. His work speaks to ritual theory, medical/psychological anthropology and the phenomenology of religion.edit
Contemporary Anthropology of Religion is proudly sponsored by the Society for the Anthropology of Religion,. and is co-edited by Don Seeman and Tulasi Srinivas. We seek proposals for ethnographic monographs and edited volumes that... more
Contemporary Anthropology of Religion is proudly sponsored by the Society for the Anthropology of Religion,. and is co-edited by Don Seeman and Tulasi Srinivas. We seek proposals for ethnographic monographs and edited volumes that contribute broadly to the anthropological study of religious experience, cultures and practice, as well as innovative interdisciplinary works. Please see our flier for more details!
Research Interests: Religion, New Religious Movements, Comparative Religion, Sociology of Religion, Anthropology, and 42 moreHistorical Anthropology, Medical Anthropology, Social Anthropology, Jewish Studies, Social Sciences, Philosophical Anthropology, History of Religion, Ethnography, Practical theology, Political Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology of the Body, Psychology of Religion, American Religion, Anthropology of Christianity, Science and Religion, Religious Conversion, Ethnographic Fieldwork (Anthropology), History of Religions, Ethnography (Research Methodology), Magic and the Occult (Anthropology Of Religion), Witchcraft (Anthropology Of Religion), Ethnographic fieldwork, Cultural Anthropology, Ritual Theory, Lived Religion, Religious Experience, Ethnography of Religion, Ethnographic Methods, Ethnographic Studies, Phenomenological Anthropology, Religious Studies, Anthropology of Experience, Ethnographic Research, Popular Hinduism; Medical Anthropology (Mental Health); Anthropology of Psychiatry; Anthropology of Religion, Secularism and Non-Religion; and Ritual Theory, Anthropology of Islam, Anthropology of Buddhism, Theology and Religious Studies, Anthropology of Religion, Ethnography, Anthropology, History of Religions, Anthropology of Judaismn, and Contemporary Anthropology of Religionedit
This book is the inaugural volume in a new series on Jewish Ethnography called “Jewish Cultures of the World,” edited by Matti Bunzl and Jeffrey Shandler. Synopsis: “One People, One Blood” is an ethnographic study of Ethiopian Jews... more
This book is the inaugural volume in a new series on Jewish Ethnography called “Jewish Cultures of the World,” edited by Matti Bunzl and Jeffrey Shandler.
Synopsis: “One People, One Blood” is an ethnographic study of Ethiopian Jews whose ancestors converted to Christianity and are today clamoring for the right to ‘Return to Judaism’ and claim citizenship in the State Israel. It focuses on the lived experience of these refugees and on the complex moral and political controversy over their ongoing cultural and religious transformation. This is the first ethnography ever devoted to this group, or to the cultural politics of Ethiopian Judaism. I argue that epistemological limitations in the study of religious experience ought to be taken into account by Israeli policy makers who decide “who is a Jew” based on uncritical assumptions about the nature of religious conversion. I also use the ‘Feres Mura’ dilemma to raise broader questions about the nature of Jewishness and the political role of academic scholarship.
Synopsis: “One People, One Blood” is an ethnographic study of Ethiopian Jews whose ancestors converted to Christianity and are today clamoring for the right to ‘Return to Judaism’ and claim citizenship in the State Israel. It focuses on the lived experience of these refugees and on the complex moral and political controversy over their ongoing cultural and religious transformation. This is the first ethnography ever devoted to this group, or to the cultural politics of Ethiopian Judaism. I argue that epistemological limitations in the study of religious experience ought to be taken into account by Israeli policy makers who decide “who is a Jew” based on uncritical assumptions about the nature of religious conversion. I also use the ‘Feres Mura’ dilemma to raise broader questions about the nature of Jewishness and the political role of academic scholarship.
Research Interests: Jewish Studies, Ethnography, Israel Studies, Ethiopian Studies, African Diaspora Studies, and 43 moreAfrican Religion in Africa and the Diaspora, Race and Ethnicity, Political Violence and Terrorism, Religious Conversion, Middle East Anthropology, African Diaspora, Race and Religion, Migration Studies, Anthropology of Ethiopia, Ritual Theory, Ethnography of Religion, Existential Anthropology, Anthropology of the Horn of Africa, Phenomenology of Religion, Land of Israel Studies, Modern Judaism, Phenomenological Anthropology, Anthropology of Experience, Judaic Studies, Violence and social suffering, Conversion, Honor-Shame culture, Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity, Ethiopian Jews, Beta Israel, Refugees and Forced Migration Studies, Social Suffering, Ritual Purity, african Jews, black Jews, jazz, Refugees, migration and immigration, Anthropology of migration, Ethiopian History, Falasha, Ethiopian-European encounter, Anthropology of Jewish communities, African pentecostalism, Anthropology of Religion, Ethnography, Anthropology, History of Religions, Anthropology of Bureaucracy, Ethiopia. Anthropology, Ethiopian Immigrants, Ethiopian Christianity, and Ethnography of Jewish Communitiesedit
Research Interests: Abrahamic Religions, Comparative Religion, Sociology of Religion, Jewish Law, Anthropology, and 43 moreMedical Anthropology, Jewish Studies, Middle East Studies, History of Religion, Ethnography, Israel Studies, Ethiopian Studies, Religion and Politics, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Race and Ethnicity, Middle East (Anthropology), Critical Medical Anthropology, Religious Conversion, Middle East Anthropology, Migration Studies, African Religions, Race and ethnicity (Anthropology), Pentecostalism, Ethnography of Religion, Existential Anthropology, Anthropology of the Horn of Africa, Jewish Cultural Studies, Horn of Africa, Modern Judaism, Phenomenological Anthropology, Anthropology of ethics and morality, Religious Studies, Judaic Studies, Violence and social suffering, Ethiopian Jews, Beta Israel, Social Suffering, African Christianity, Social Suffering and Structural Injustice, Anthropology of Violence, Ethiopian-European encounter, Anthropology of Jewish communities, Anthropology of Religion, Religion, Race and Ethnicity, Anthropology of Bureaucracy, Ethiopian Immigrants, Ethiopian Christianity, and Ethnography of Jewish Communitiesedit
Research Interests: Medical Anthropology, Social Anthropology, Jewish Studies, Ethnography, Israel Studies, and 27 moreEthiopian Studies, Religious Conversion, Middle East Anthropology, Ethnography of Religion, Ethnographic Methods, Anthropology of the Horn of Africa, Jewish Cultural Studies, Israel, Modern Judaism, HIV, Phenomenological Anthropology, Anthropology of ethics and morality, Religious Studies, Judaic Studies, Orthodox Judaism, Ethiopian Jews, Beta Israel, Social Suffering, Falasha, Anthropology of Judaism, Anthropology of Jewish communities, Anthropology of Religion, Ethiopian Immigrants, Ethiopian Christianity, Hebraic and Judaic Studies, Anthropology of Jews and Judaism, and Ethnography of Jewish Communitiesedit
""In recent decades, human experience has become focus or frame for a wide variety of projects in psychological anthropology and beyond. Like 'culture,' which it arguably seeks to either qualify or displace, the concept of 'experience'... more
""In recent decades, human experience has become focus or frame for a wide variety of projects in psychological anthropology and beyond. Like 'culture,' which it arguably seeks to either qualify or displace, the concept of 'experience' has generated its own interpretive literature, competing schools of analysis, and internal resistances. We propose that the anthropology of experience has achieved a degree of recognition and maturity that renders genealogical reflection, stocktaking, and agenda setting both possible and necessary.
Although the anthropology of experience, like experience itself, does not (and perhaps should not) lend itself to easy definition as a singular or unified theoretical paradigm, it does involve a fluid constellation of themes shared by what are traditionally regarded as parallel or divergent lines of inquiry: what might be glossed imperfectly as the phenomenological and psychoanalytic schools within sociocultural anthropology. Here we aim neither for naıve synthesis nor a mathematical sum of parts, but for more adequate ways of depicting and making sense of what Dewey calls 'the inclusive integrity of "experience."’ This will require more concerted attention to the sources of ethnographic inquiétude—the gaps, silences, limits, and opacities—that either preoccupy or remain overlooked within both traditions." [experience, subjectivity, intersubjectivity, phenomenological anthropology, psychoanalytic anthropology, inquiétude]""
Although the anthropology of experience, like experience itself, does not (and perhaps should not) lend itself to easy definition as a singular or unified theoretical paradigm, it does involve a fluid constellation of themes shared by what are traditionally regarded as parallel or divergent lines of inquiry: what might be glossed imperfectly as the phenomenological and psychoanalytic schools within sociocultural anthropology. Here we aim neither for naıve synthesis nor a mathematical sum of parts, but for more adequate ways of depicting and making sense of what Dewey calls 'the inclusive integrity of "experience."’ This will require more concerted attention to the sources of ethnographic inquiétude—the gaps, silences, limits, and opacities—that either preoccupy or remain overlooked within both traditions." [experience, subjectivity, intersubjectivity, phenomenological anthropology, psychoanalytic anthropology, inquiétude]""
Research Interests: Psychological Anthropology, Medical Anthropology, Ethnography, Anthropology of Knowledge, History of Anthropology, and 24 moreCultural Psychology, Phenomenology, Critical Medical Anthropology, Subjectivity (Culture), Ethnography (Research Methodology), Intersubjectivity, Phenomenology of the body, Cultural Psychiatry, Transcultural Psychiatry, Psychiatric anthropology, Philosophy of Human Suffering, Existential Anthropology, Phenomenology of Religion, Phenomenological Anthropology, Anthropology of ethics and morality, Psychoanalytic Anthropology, Anthropology of Experience, Experience, Violence and social suffering, Social Suffering, .Medical Anthropology, Anthropology of Religion, Arthur Kleinman, and Phenomenology of Intersubjectivityedit
Despite the explosion of interest in Jewish mysticism in recent decades, scholars have only recently begun to explore in any depth how mystical texts function as literature. This includes not just literary readings of Jewish mystical... more
Despite the explosion of interest in Jewish mysticism in recent decades, scholars have only recently begun to explore in any depth how mystical texts function as literature. This includes not just literary readings of Jewish mystical texts, but also extends to questions of mystical and literary efficacy. In other words, what kinds of strategies are employed in Jewish mystical writing to convey mystical content and ethos, to shape religious subjectivity in distinctive ways, or even to influence the cosmos through specialized acts of writing and reading (i.e., producing and consuming literature)? Moreover, how do these literary and mystical projects intersect, reinforce, and possibly even place limits upon one another in different textual settings? Finally, how might consideration of these topics change the way we think about Jewish literary studies more broadly?
Research Interests: Comparative Religion, Comparative Literature, Jewish Studies, Jewish Mysticism, Mysticism, and 37 moreComparative Mysticism, Spirituality & Mysticism, Jewish Thought, Jewish Literature, Religion and Literature, Literature and Religion, Medieval Jewish History, Kabbalah, Judaism, Hasidism, Jewish Cultural Studies, Medieval Mysticism, Mystical Theology, Religious Studies, Kabbalah, Christian Kabbalah, Jewish Mysticism, Judaic Studies, Zohar, Modern Jewish Thought, Lurianic Kabbalah, Comparative Mystical Literature, Jewish Alchemy, Safed/Tzfat, Kabbalat Shabbat, Isaac Luria, Mystical experience, Kabbalah and Jewish Philosophy, Mystical literature, Cultural Poetics, Lurianic Kabbalah, Jewish Mysticism. Kabbalah, Chabad, Zohar, Kabbalah, Kabbalah In Safed, Kaballah,chassidut,jewish Misticism, Chassidism, Hebrew and Judaic Studies, Mystical Psychology, Schools of Mystical Thought and Evolution of Them, Jewish Mysticism/Kababalah, and Mysticism and Literatureedit
Research Interests: Comparative Religion, Practical theology, Anthropology of Christianity, Ethnography of Religion, Phenomenological Anthropology, and 7 moreAnthropology of ethics and morality, Religious Studies, Anthropology of Experience, Anthropology of Islam, Anthropology of Judaism, Anthropology of Religion, and Theology and Ethnographyedit
In this issue of Cambridge Anthropology, Joel Robbins argues from his fieldwork among Arapmin Christians that anthropologists need to better theorize the extinction of religious traditions and the circumstances under which those occur. My... more
In this issue of Cambridge Anthropology, Joel Robbins argues from his fieldwork among Arapmin Christians that anthropologists need to better theorize the extinction of religious traditions and the circumstances under which those occur. My invited commentary insists that categories of continuity and change are themselves evaluative and that anthropologists cannot take for granted their meaning without attending to the moral significance of change in local terms. I also draw on my own research among Ethiopian Beta Israel to illustrate this point.
Research Interests: Abrahamic Religions, Jewish Studies, Anthropology of Christianity, Religious Conversion, Pentecostalism, and 10 moreAnthropology of Ethiopia, Ethnography of Religion, Anthropology of ethics and morality, Religious Studies, Ethiopian Jews, Beta Israel, Anthropology of Mission and Conversion, Anthropology of Religion, Anthropology of Jews and Judaism, and Ethnography of Jewish Communitiesedit
Research Interests: Abrahamic Religions, Jewish Law, Medieval Philosophy, Jewish Studies, History of Religion, and 48 moreVirtue Ethics, Ritual, Contemplative Pedagogy, Contemplative Studies, Jewish Thought, Philosophy of Love, Jewish Philosophy, Medieval Jewish Philosophy, Aristotelianism, Jewish Ethics, Maimonides, Ritual Theory, Nicomachean Ethics, Judaism, Aristotle's Ethics, Maimonides, Religious Studies, Ritual Studies, Islamic and Jewish Studies, Medieval Aristotelianism, Judaic Studies, Philosophy and Religious Studies, Saadya Gaon, Contemplative Prayer, Halacha, Halakha, Mishneh Torah, Ancient Contemplative Practices, Reception of Aristotelian philosophy in the Middle Ages, Neo-Aristotelianism, Aristotelian Ethics, Maimonides' Guide of Perplexed, Medieval Aristotelian Tradition, Rambam, Philosophy of halakhah, Torah Study, Hebrew and Judaic Studies, medieval islam and Judaism, Philosophical Religions, Philosophical Contemplation, Divine Wisdom, Guide for the Perplexed, Contemplative Practices, Medieval Judaica, Aristotle on Virtue, Hebraic and Judaic Studies, Taamei Hamitzvot, Sefer Hamitztvoth\, and Moreh Nevuchimedit
Research Interests: Anthropology, Psychological Anthropology, Medical Anthropology, Ethnography, History of Anthropology, and 21 morePhenomenology, Critical Medical Anthropology, Phenomenological Research Methodology, Ethnography (Research Methodology), Phenomenology of the body, Alfred Schutz (Sociology), Existential Anthropology, Phenomenology of Religion, Phenomenological Anthropology, Anthropology of ethics and morality, Psychoanalytic Anthropology, Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, contemporary continental philosophy, axiology (theories and applied research on values), philosophical and cultural anthropology, diversity managment, gender studies, intercultural communication, and translations studies, Anthropology of Experience, Cultural Phenomenology, Critical Ethnography, Existential phenomenology, Cultural Antrhropology, .Medical Anthropology, Alfred Schutz, Anthropology of Religion, and Arthur Kleinmanedit
This volume is devoted to the role played by religious practices as social determinants of public health. The first section is devoted to a phenomenological appreciation of religious practices in their lived contexts. Written by religion... more
This volume is devoted to the role played by religious practices as social determinants of public health. The first section is devoted to a phenomenological appreciation of religious practices in their lived contexts. Written by religion scholars, anthropologists and in some cases practitioners, this section is meant to set the stage for more theoretical explorations of religion and public health in following sections. My chapter focuses on Jewish circumcision ritual and its meaning for modern Jews. I focus on some of the classical texts and practices that have made circumcision meaningful over time and argue that in modern times it has also come to stand for the need to grapple as moral agents with those aspects of the human condition--like Jewishness--that are not typically chosen but given by facts of birth, a reality that has been particularly significant to post-Holocaust Jews. The volume is being published by Oxford University Press and should be released in Fall 2014. This is the first collaborative work of its kind involving both public health and religion scholars.
Research Interests: Religion, Abrahamic Religions, Sociology of Religion, Jewish Law, Jewish Studies, and 32 moreReligion and Sexuality, Ritual, Male Circumcision, Public Health, Jewish Thought, Ritual Theory, Religious Experience, Ethnography of Religion, Judaism, Jewish Cultural Studies, Maimonides, Modern Judaism, Religious Studies, Ritual Studies, Health and Religion, Post-Holocaust Literature, Judaic Studies, Post-Holocaust Theology, Orthodox Judaism, ethnic studies – Jewish American identities, Ethnicity and Religion, Circumcision, Theology and Religious Studies, Deabtes about male circumcision, Religion and Health, Ritual Practices, Religion and Public Health, Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, Rambam, Anthropology of Religion, Modern Orthodox Judaism, and Ethnography of Jewish Communitiesedit
" Forthcoming in: Eugene Korn and Robert Jensen editors,, Violence and Religion: Christian and Jewish Perspectives (Wipf and Stock Publishers) ABSTRACT Don Seeman, the author of the chapter “Violence, Divine Honor... more
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Forthcoming in: Eugene Korn and Robert Jensen editors,, Violence and Religion: Christian and Jewish Perspectives (Wipf and Stock Publishers)
ABSTRACT
Don Seeman, the author of the chapter
“Violence, Divine Honor and the State,” has published a number
of studies touching on the relationship between the idea of divine honor and religious violence in different Jewish intellectual settings and he has also written as an anthropologist on the relationship between honor and political violence in modern Israel. Here, for the first time, he offers a synthetic reading that attempts to account for the close relationship between the anthropological and theological registers and to account in a systematic way for differences in approach between Jewish thinkers as diverse as Maimonides, R. Moshe Hayyim Luzzatto, Rav Kook, Moses Mendelssohn and Emmanuel Levinas. He begins with a phenomenological critique of the way honor and shame have been treated in recent
social science literature. He argues that honor and shame are “bridge concepts” that are applied in
classical conceptions to human beings as well as to God and that they therefore help to condition theological as well as political or anthropological conceptions of ethics and violence. After brief analyses of key biblical and rabbinic texts, Seeman argues that Jewish approaches to divine honor and violence can be divided into three dominant paradigms: vernacular, mystical and philosophical. The vernacular paradigm treats divine honor in anthropomorphic terms that are indistinguishable from those used to explain human social relations and recourse to violence. The mystical or kabbalistic paradigm builds, in a sense, on this robust vernacular sensibility, but adds a distinctive and subtle metaphysics of divine presence. This is the context in which the utter rejection of the vernacular sensibility by philosophical Judaism
—
exemplified by Maimonides and by modern thinkers such as Moses Mendelssohn
—
takes on such importance. Seeman argues that the very shape of Jewish modernity has been conditioned by arguments over the nature of divine honor and by the political ramifications of those differences. The rejection of vernacular divine honor is a central theme of
Mendelssohn’s
Jerusalem
to which contemporary Jews are still implicitly or explicitly responding. We cannot understand the complex relationships between religion, violence and the state without a much better understanding of these dynamics.
"
Forthcoming in: Eugene Korn and Robert Jensen editors,, Violence and Religion: Christian and Jewish Perspectives (Wipf and Stock Publishers)
ABSTRACT
Don Seeman, the author of the chapter
“Violence, Divine Honor and the State,” has published a number
of studies touching on the relationship between the idea of divine honor and religious violence in different Jewish intellectual settings and he has also written as an anthropologist on the relationship between honor and political violence in modern Israel. Here, for the first time, he offers a synthetic reading that attempts to account for the close relationship between the anthropological and theological registers and to account in a systematic way for differences in approach between Jewish thinkers as diverse as Maimonides, R. Moshe Hayyim Luzzatto, Rav Kook, Moses Mendelssohn and Emmanuel Levinas. He begins with a phenomenological critique of the way honor and shame have been treated in recent
social science literature. He argues that honor and shame are “bridge concepts” that are applied in
classical conceptions to human beings as well as to God and that they therefore help to condition theological as well as political or anthropological conceptions of ethics and violence. After brief analyses of key biblical and rabbinic texts, Seeman argues that Jewish approaches to divine honor and violence can be divided into three dominant paradigms: vernacular, mystical and philosophical. The vernacular paradigm treats divine honor in anthropomorphic terms that are indistinguishable from those used to explain human social relations and recourse to violence. The mystical or kabbalistic paradigm builds, in a sense, on this robust vernacular sensibility, but adds a distinctive and subtle metaphysics of divine presence. This is the context in which the utter rejection of the vernacular sensibility by philosophical Judaism
—
exemplified by Maimonides and by modern thinkers such as Moses Mendelssohn
—
takes on such importance. Seeman argues that the very shape of Jewish modernity has been conditioned by arguments over the nature of divine honor and by the political ramifications of those differences. The rejection of vernacular divine honor is a central theme of
Mendelssohn’s
Jerusalem
to which contemporary Jews are still implicitly or explicitly responding. We cannot understand the complex relationships between religion, violence and the state without a much better understanding of these dynamics.
"
Research Interests: Abrahamic Religions, Comparative Religion, Jewish Law, Anthropology, Medical Anthropology, and 63 morePhilosophy Of Religion, Jewish Studies, History of Religion, Ethnography, Literature, Practical theology, Israel Studies, Religion and Politics, Hebrew Bible, Jewish Mysticism, Violence (Anthropology), Émmanuel Lévinas, History of Religions, Political Violence, Biblical Theology, Scriptural Reasoning, Levinas, Religion, Conflict and Peacebuilding, Jewish Thought, Rabbinic Literature, Jewish Philosophy, Medieval Jewish Philosophy, Modern Jewish Philosophy, Religious Experience, Ethnography of Religion, Hasidism, Israelite Religion, Religion and Violence, Phenomenology of Religion, Jewish Cultural Studies, Comparative Theology, Hebrew Bible and Ancient Near East, Maimonides, Israel, Religious Zionism, HIV, Moses Mendelssohn, Religious Studies, Judaic Studies, Modern Jewish Thought, Orthodox Judaism, Honor-Shame culture, Ethiopian Jews, Beta Israel, Rav Kook, Anthropology of Violence, Universalism vs particularism in Judaism, Religious Zionism, Culture of Honor, Comparative Politics, Orthodox Judaism, Religion and Politics, Jewish Theology, Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, Chabad, Anthropology of Religion, Moshe Chaim Luzzatto, Moses Mendelshon, Emmanuel Levinas, Phenomenology of Religions, Jewish Mysticism/Kababalah, Ethics (Levinas), Modern Jewish Thought and Theology, Theology of Violence, Israel Salanter, and Anthropology of Violence and Conflictedit
Research Interests: Comparative Literature, Anthropology, Jewish Studies, Literature, Jewish Mysticism, and 50 moreHistory Of Emotions, Eastern European and Russian Jewish History, Mysticism, Theodicy, Religious Conversion, Jewish - Christian Relations, Comparative Mysticism, Spirituality & Mysticism, Anthropology of emotions, Jewish Thought, Jewish Literature, Literature and Religion, Kabbalah, Judaism, Hasidism, Sacred Texts, Modern Jewish History, Theology of Suffering and Evil, Theologies of Suffering and Evil, Modern Judaism, Mystical Theology, Religious Studies, Kabbalah, Christian Kabbalah, Jewish Mysticism, Judaic Studies, Zohar, Modern Jewish Thought, Violence and social suffering, Orthodox Judaism, Russian Jewry, Hasidism, Jewish Traditional Society, Comparative Mystical Literature, Hebrew Chassidic, Social Suffering, Mystical experience, Mystical literature, Jewish Mysticism, Hasidism, Religious Apostasy, Cross cultural studies of grief, Chabad, Hasidim and Mitnagdim, Anthropology of Religion, Kaballah,chassidut,jewish Misticism, Habad, Chassidism, Mystical Psychology, Schools of Mystical Thought and Evolution of Them, Mediated Representations of Suffering, Jewish Mysticism/Kababalah, Rabbinic Textuality, Dovber Schneuri (, and Mysticism and Literatureedit
The State of Israel was consolidated in the early twentieth century as the homeland of the Jewish people. While nominally secular, it also acknowledged in law and practice the complex , possibly inextricable relationship between ethnic,... more
The State of Israel was consolidated in the early twentieth century as the homeland of the Jewish people. While nominally secular, it also acknowledged in law and practice the complex , possibly inextricable relationship between ethnic, religious and national or genealogical forms of imagining what it means to be a Jew in the modern world. In one celebrated Supreme Court case, it was made clear that a "Jew," for purposes of immigration, could not include someone who clearly identified in a religious sense with Christianity. Yet the demography of Israel has been changing through mass immigration (especially from the USSR and Ethiopia) as well as strong foreign missionary efforts. In the Ethiopian case, tens of thousands of individuals immigrated over the last two decades who were considered by the state to be descendants of converts to Orthodox (or Protestant) Christianity: their case was normalized, from the state's point of view, by encouraging them to undergo a state-sponsored "return to Judaism" program that brought ethnic and religious grounds of identification back into synch. Yet this has remained contested and conflictual at both the policy level and the level of everyday, vernacular experience of Ethiopians. Moreover, a smaller but even more challenging group of Ethiopians, from the state's point of view, have begun, with other Jewish Israelis, to embrace various forms of Messianic Judaism and charismatic Christianity in Israel--making a frontal collision with the state's basic imaginary almost inevitable. My paper, grounded in ethnographic fieldwork among both groups of Ethiopian-Israelis, begins to pry apart the tortured relationship between Christianity and Jewishness in the Ethiopian case: its corollaries in everyday religion, distinctive practices of aversion or mimesis, and its explosive political implications for Israeli self-understanding.
Research Interests: Religion, Comparative Religion, Sociology of Religion, Jewish Studies, Israel Studies, and 36 moreEthiopian Studies, Religion and Politics, Social and Cultural Anthropology, African Diaspora Studies, African Religion in Africa and the Diaspora, Mediterranean Studies, Anthropology of Christianity, Religious Conversion, Middle East Anthropology, Jewish - Christian Relations, Pentecostalism, Anthropology of Ethiopia, Lived Religion, Religious Experience, Ethnography of Religion, African Diasporic Religions, Anthropology of the Horn of Africa, Jewish Cultural Studies, Anthropology of the Mediterranean, Israel, Religious Studies, Judaic Studies, Comparative Religious Studies, Ethiopian Jews, Beta Israel, Anthropology of Mission and Conversion, Falasha, Ethiopian-European encounter, Anthropology of Jewish communities, African pentecostalism, Pentecostal studies, Global Pentecostalism, Anthropology of Religion, Ethiopia. Anthropology, Ethiopian Immigrants, and Ethiopian Christianityedit
Research Interests: Social Theory, Sociology of Culture, Sociology of Religion, Philosophy Of Religion, Jewish Studies, and 55 moreSocial Sciences, Practice theory, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Ritual, Theodicy, Émmanuel Lévinas, Levinas (Research Methodology), Phenomenological Sociology, Levinas, Jewish Thought, Jewish Philosophy, Ritual (Anthropology), Max Weber (Philosophy), Philosophy of Pain, Cultural Anthropology, Ritual Theory, Philosophy of Human Suffering, Hasidism, Existential Anthropology, Sociology of religion (Religion), Phenomenology of Religion, Theology of Suffering and Evil, Theologies of Suffering and Evil, Talal Asad, Anthropology of ethics and morality, Max Weber, Ritual Studies, Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, contemporary continental philosophy, axiology (theories and applied research on values), philosophical and cultural anthropology, diversity managment, gender studies, intercultural communication, and translations studies, Judaic Studies, Clifford Geertz, Modern Jewish Thought, Rituals, Sociology and Anthropology of Religion, Max Weber (Sociology), Social Suffering, Esh Kodesh, Geertz, Jewish Mysticism, Hasidism, Ritual Practices, Meaninglessness, Emanuel Levinas, Phenomenological Approach in Social Sciences, Clifford Geertz, Epistemology of Anthropology, History of Anthropology, neuroantropologia, Geertz, interpretacja, Human Suffering, Anthropology of Religion, Clifford Geertz, Definition of Religion, Anti-Theodicy, Ethics of Alterity, Emmanuel Levinas, Mediated Representations of Suffering, Phenomenological and Hermeneutical Approaches to Religion, Phenomenology of Religions, Ethics (Levinas), and Virtuoso Religionedit
Research Interests: Religion, Emotion, Psychological Anthropology, Jewish Studies, History of Religion, and 92 moreCosmology (Anthropology), Polish History, Genocide Studies, Ritual, Spiritual Leadership, Jewish Mysticism, Old Testament Prophecy, History Of Emotions, Political Violence and Terrorism, Mysticism, Émmanuel Lévinas, History of Religions, Theurgy, Comparative Mysticism, Spirituality & Mysticism, Holocaust Studies, Polish Literature, Phenomenological Sociology, Levinas, Religion and Violence/Nonviolence, Phenomenology of the body, Anthropology of emotions, Jewish Thought, Myth And Ritual Studies, Liturgics, Ritual (Anthropology), Literature and Trauma, Anthropology of Emotion, Ritual Theory, Biblical Interpretation, Philosophy of Human Suffering, Hasidism, Religion and Violence, Affect (Cultural Theory), Phenomenology of Religion, Poland 1939-45, Theology of Suffering and Evil, Theologies of Suffering and Evil, Modern Judaism, Mystical Theology, Emotions, Jews in Poland, Holocaust, Holocaust theories of representation, Ritual Studies, Jewish heritage, Polish-Jewish / German-Jewish Relations, klezmer revival, Jewish heritage tourism, Holocaust commemoration, antisemitism, social identity, oral history, Kabbalah, Christian Kabbalah, Jewish Mysticism, Trauma and Religion, Clifford Geertz, Modern Jewish Thought, Violence and social suffering, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Warsaw Ghetto, Russian Jewry, Hasidism, Jewish Traditional Society, Post-Shoah Theology, Comparative Mystical Literature, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Holocaust Shoah, Social Suffering, Mystical experience, Suffering, Polish-Jewish literature, Social Suffering and Structural Injustice, Kalonymus Shapiro, Esh Kodesh, Mystical literature, Jewish Mysticism, Hasidism, Jewish Mysticism and Qabbalah, Ritual Practices, Meaninglessness, Hasidism, Przysucha, personal redemption, Anthropology and Literature, Theology of Suffering, Phenomenological Approach in Social Sciences, Hasidim and Mitnagdim, Moshe Idel, Anthropology of Religion, Kaballah,chassidut,jewish Misticism, Transcultural Psychiatry and Idioms of Suffering, Chassidism, Mystical Psychology, Schools of Mystical Thought and Evolution of Them, Mediated Representations of Suffering, Cross Cultural Study of Grief, Phenomenological and Hermeneutical Approaches to Religion, Phenomenology of Religions, Jewish Mysticism/Kababalah, Jewish Responses to the Holocaust, Holocaust Theology, Littérature De La Shoah, Chassidic Philosophy, Useless Suffering, and Neurestheniaedit
Research Interests: Practical theology, Vernacular Religion, Anthropology of Christianity, Theology and Culture, Ethnography of Religion, and 11 moreEthnographic Methods, Existential Anthropology, Anthropology of ethics and morality, Religious Studies, Anthropology of Experience, Hinduism, Hindu therapies, anthropology of religion, Anthropology of Islam, Social Suffering, Anthropology of Jewish communities, Anthropology of Religion, and Theology and Ethnographyedit
Research Interests: Ethnography, Performance Studies, Practical theology, Anthropology of Christianity, Theology and Culture, and 7 moreEthnography of Religion, Ethnographic Methods, Religious Studies, Popular Hinduism; Medical Anthropology (Mental Health); Anthropology of Psychiatry; Anthropology of Religion, Secularism and Non-Religion; and Ritual Theory, Theology and Religious Studies, Anthropology of Jewish communities, and Anthropology of Religionedit
Research Interests: Religion, Jewish Studies, Anger, Virtue Ethics, Polish History, and 54 moreRitual, Jewish Mysticism, History Of Emotions, Mysticism, Comparative Mysticism, Spirituality & Mysticism, Polish Literature, Religion and Violence/Nonviolence, Jewish Thought, Myth And Ritual Studies, Liturgics, Ritual (Anthropology), Jewish Ethics, Maimonides, Ritual Theory, Religious Experience, Kabbalah, Judaism, Hasidism, Religion and Violence, Affect (Cultural Theory), Maimonides, Modern Judaism, Mystical Theology, Religious Studies, Ritual Studies, Jewish heritage, Polish-Jewish / German-Jewish Relations, klezmer revival, Jewish heritage tourism, Holocaust commemoration, antisemitism, social identity, oral history, Kabbalah, Christian Kabbalah, Jewish Mysticism, Judaic Studies, Rituals, Jewish Rituals and Ceremonies, Honor-Shame culture, Comparative Mystical Literature, Jewish Martyrdom, Mystical experience, Kabbalah and Jewish Philosophy, Esh Kodesh, Theology and Religious Studies, Mystical literature, Ritual Practices, Kotsk, Izbica, Izbica, Radical Teachings, Hasidism, Przysucha, personal redemption, Rambam, Philosophy of halakhah, Kaballah,chassidut,jewish Misticism, Chassidism, Izbica, hasidism, Mystical Psychology, Schools of Mystical Thought and Evolution of Them, Hasidic Tales of the Holocaust, Contemplative Practices, Jewish Mysticism/Kababalah, Polish Hasidism, Piaseczna, and Chassidic Philosophyedit
Research Interests: Psychological Anthropology, Practice theory, Ritual, Psychology of Religion, History of Anthropology, and 21 moreSigmund Freud, Psychoanalysis and religion, Myth And Ritual Studies, Liturgics, Ritual (Anthropology), Cultural Anthropology, Ritual Theory, Phenomenological Anthropology, Religious Studies, Ritual Studies, Psychoanalytic Anthropology, Anthropology of Experience, Rituals, American Anthropology and Archaeology, Edward Sapir, Culture and Personality, Ritual Practices, Anthropology of Religion, Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, History of Anthropology and Anthropological Theory, History of Archaeology and Anthropology, and Theodore Reikedit
Research Interests: Abrahamic Religions, Comparative Religion, Jewish Law, Comparative Law, Comparative Literature, and 63 moreMedical Anthropology, Jewish Studies, Bioethics, Anthropology of Science, Israel Studies, Religion and Politics, Kinship (Anthropology), Hebrew Bible, Natural Law, Anthropology of Gender, Religious Ethics, Jewish Ethics, Pronatalism, Anthropology of Reproduction, Anthropology of Christianity, Science and Religion, Middle East Anthropology, Reproductive Ethics, Anthropology of Kinship, Reproductive Technology, Jewish Thought, Bioethics Reproductive Technology, Book of Genesis, Religious Experience, Ethnography of Religion, Anthropology of Biomedicine, History of Science and Religion, Textual Reasoning, Jewish Cultural Studies, Historical Development of Halakhah, Genesis 1-11, Israel, Kinship and Relatedness (Anthropology), Modern Judaism, Ethics in Reproductive medicine and women's health, Religion and Science, Leviticus, Anthropology of ethics and morality, Kinship, Religious Studies, Jewish Exegesis, New Reproductive technologies, Assisted Reproductive Technologies, Assisted Reproductive Technology, Assisted Reproduction, Gender and Judaism, Comperative Religion, Theology and Religious Studies, Bioethics and Moral Theology, Anthropology of Jewish communities, Philosophy of halakhah, Jewish Law and Modern Medicine, Anthropology of Religion, Surrogacy Ethics, Biomedicine and Bioethics, Comparative Bioethics, Ethics of Assisted Reproductive Technology, Legal Positivism Vs Natural Law, Sociology of Biomedicine and Health, Jewish bioethics, Religion and Bioethics, Ethnography of Jewish Communities, and Donum Vitaeedit
Research Interests: Jewish Law, Medieval Philosophy, Jewish Studies, Virtue Ethics, Jewish Ethics, and 34 moreÉmmanuel Lévinas, Levinas, Jewish Thought, Rabbinic Literature, Jewish Philosophy, Medieval Jewish Philosophy, Jewish Ethics, Maimonides, Phenomenology of Religion, Maimonides, Religious Studies, Islamic and Jewish Studies, Medieval Aristotelianism, Judaic Studies, Virtue, Honor-Shame culture, Medieval Judaism :, Book of Exodus, Mishneh Torah, Theology and Religious Studies, Neo-Aristotelianism, History of Halakha and Jewish Law, Medieval Jewish-Islamic science (Medicine); medieval Arabic-Hebrew medical terminology, Jewish Theology, Aristotelian Ethics, Maimonides' Guide of Perplexed, Medieval Aristotelian Tradition, Rambam, Maimonides, Al-Farabi, devine attributes, medieval islam and Judaism, Honor and Shame, Guide for the Perplexed, Medieval Judaica, Aristotle on Virtue, and Moreh Nevuchimedit
Research Interests: Abrahamic Religions, Philosophy Of Religion, Moral Psychology, Jewish Studies, Violence, and 69 moreHistory of Religion, Israel Studies, Religion and Politics, Jewish Mysticism, Political Violence and Terrorism, Jewish Ethics, Mysticism, Émmanuel Lévinas, Middle East Anthropology, History of Religions, Political Violence, Theology and Culture, Comparative Mysticism, Spirituality & Mysticism, Levinas, Religion, Conflict and Peacebuilding, Religion and Violence/Nonviolence, Jewish Thought, Ethics and Religion, Jewish Philosophy, Martyrdom, Modern Jewish Philosophy, Religious Experience, Religious Extremism, Religion & Politics, Kabbalah, Hasidism, Religion and Violence, Phenomenology of Religion, Jewish Cultural Studies, Modern Judaism, Religious Zionism, Mystical Theology, Israel and Zionism, Religious Studies, Arab-Israeli conflict, Kabbalah, Christian Kabbalah, Jewish Mysticism, Judaic Studies, Modern Jewish Thought, Orthodox Judaism, Chilhdood, political violence, and trauma Ethics and pedagogy (Benjamin, Levinas, Derrida) Classics of educational science (Durkheim, Dewey, Piaget) Theories of justice Children’s literature Intercultural and interreligious education and integration, Human Dignity, Honor-Shame culture, Comparative Mystical Literature, Honor Killing, Rav Kook, Mystical experience, Ontotheology, Theology and Religious Studies, Mystical literature, Jewish Theology, Chabad, Anthropology of Religion, History of Philosophy, Musar Movement In Lithuania, Phenomenology, Ethics, Anthropology, Moshe Chaim Luzzatto, Rabbi A.i. Kook, Mystical Psychology, Modern Orthodox Theology, Emmanuel Levinas, Rabbi Kook, Middle Eastern Religions, Schools of Mystical Thought and Evolution of Them, Violence and Ecstasy, Jewish Mysticism/Kababalah, Aristotle on Virtue, Law, Religion and Violence, and Modern Jewish Thought and Theologyedit
Research Interests: Comparative Literature, Gender Studies, Anthropology, Gender History, Literature, and 63 moreKinship (Anthropology), Hebrew Bible, Anthropology of Gender, Anthropology of space, Biblical Studies, Gender, Anthropology Of Literature, Gender Discourse, Middle East Anthropology, Theology and Culture, Biblical Theology, History of Biblical Interpretation, Midrash, Anthropology of Kinship, Gender and religion (Women s Studies), Literature and Theology, Book of Genesis, Literature and Religion, Biblical Interpretation, Literary Approaches to Biblical Studies, Israelite Religion, Hebrew Bible and Ancient Near East, Book of Proverbs, Hebrew Wisdom Literature; The Book of Proverbs, Kinship and Relatedness (Anthropology), Women of the Hebrew Bible, Biblical Exegesis, Kinship, Women and Gender Studies, Midrashic Literature, Biblical gender research, Structuralism and poetics, Judaic Studies, Book of Judges, Women in the Bible, Poetics of Space, Comparative Poetics, Book of Joshua, Ancient Israelites, Biblical Narrative, Women in the Bible and Midrash, Biblical Hermeneutics, Gender and Judaism, Deuteronomic Literature and Law, Book of Samuel, Biblical Intertextuality, cultural world of the Bible; medical anthropology; psychological anthropology, Book of Kings, Midrash, Talmud, Comparative study of Rabbinic Literature, Cultural Poetics, Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, The Book of Kings, Gender Studies, Biblical Studies, Metaphor in the Hebrew Bible, Anthropology of Religion, The Book of Judges, Jezebel, Biblical Architectures, Comperative Poetics, Cultural Politics, Relation to Anat Astarte and Deborah Jael, Ancient Samaria, Biblical Studies, Cultural Anthropology, and Anthropology of Middle East Religionedit
Research Interests: Abrahamic Religions, Comparative Literature, Gender Studies, Jewish Studies, Structuralism (Literary Criticism), and 50 moreGender History, Literature, Hebrew Bible, Nationhood, Anthropology of Gender, Anthropology of space, Biblical Studies, Gender, Anthropology Of Literature, Gender Discourse, Middle East Anthropology, Gender and religion (Women s Studies), Book of Genesis, Literary study of the Bible, Biblical Interpretation, Literary Approaches to Biblical Studies, Israelite Religion, Anthropology of the Mediterranean, Constructions of masculinity, Masculinity and Gender Studies, Social Construction of Sex and Gender, Women of the Hebrew Bible, Biblical Exegesis, Women and Gender Studies, Judaic Studies, Abraham, Circumcision, Honor-Shame culture, Women in the Bible, Poetics of Space, Anthropology of Space and Place, Sexuality in the Hebrew Bible, Women in the Bible and Midrash, Biblical Hermeneutics, Shechem, Gender and Judaism, Women Characters in the Bible, Biblical Abraham narrative, Cultural Poetics, Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, Metaphor in the Hebrew Bible, Anthropology of Religion, Robertson-Smith, Hebrew and Judaic Studies, Jacob and Esau, Anthropology of the Middle East Gender, Gender Hebrew Bible, Anthropology of the Hebrew Bible, Reproductive Anthropology, and Structuralism Anthropologyedit
Research Interests: Anthropology, Medical Anthropology, Social Anthropology, Ethnography, Ethnography (Research Methodology), and 16 moreNarrative Theory, Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology of Biomedicine, Existential Anthropology, Phenomenological Anthropology, Anthropology of Health and Illness, Social studies of Biomedicine, Etnography, Anthropology of Experience, Illness narratives, the experience of chronic diseases, organ donation and transplantation, HIV/AIDS, diabetes, genetic diseases, and medicalisation., Ethiopian Jews, Beta Israel, Social Suffering, Suffering, Arthur Kleinman, and Biomedicine and Bioethicsedit
Research Interests: Jewish Studies, Israel Studies, Ethiopian Studies, African Diaspora Studies, Ritual, and 28 moreReligious Conversion, Migration (Anthropology), Ritual (Anthropology), Anthropology of Ethiopia, Ritual Theory, Ethnography of Religion, Anthropology of the Horn of Africa, Israel, Modern Judaism, Religious Zionism, Israel and Zionism, Religious Studies, Ritual Studies, Judaic Studies, Religion and State, Cultural anthropology, bureaucracy, Conversion, Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity, Ethiopian Jews, Beta Israel, Cheif Rabbinate of Israel, Anthropology of migration, Falasha, Anthropology of Religion, Anthropology of Bureaucracy, Israeli Immigration Policy, Ethiopian Immigrants, and Anthropology of Jews and Judaismedit
Between 1984 and 1996, public health authorities in Israel maintained a secret policy of discarding blood donations made by Ethiopian-Israeli citizens and immigrants. Officials later attempted to justify this policy on the grounds that... more
Between 1984 and 1996, public health authorities in Israel maintained a secret policy of discarding blood donations made by Ethiopian-Israeli citizens and immigrants. Officials later attempted to justify this policy on the grounds that immigrants from Ethiopia were subject to high rates of infectious disease (especially HIV). In 1996, this led to an explosive and violent confrontation between Ethiopian-Israeli protestors and agents of the state, including police and public health authorities. This essay explores the cultural and political context of that confrontation, including the discourse of political violence which it occasioned. The conflict between Ethiopian-Israelis and the state was located within a wider set of political contexts, including the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which was linked to it through a shared trope of “spilled blood” common to both. Cultural analyses which ignore this dynamic political context are in danger of seriously misrepresenting the meaning of the “Blood Affair” to its participants. At the same time, this essay also engages a critical analysis of the public health policies which led to the crisis. Public health and nationalist discourse reinforced one another at the expense of Ethiopian immigrants in general, and so-called “Feres Mura” Ethiopians in particular.
Research Interests: Medical Anthropology, Jewish Studies, Violence, Ethnography, Israel Studies, and 63 moreEthiopian Studies, African Diaspora Studies, Bodies and Culture, Critical Race Theory, African Religion in Africa and the Diaspora, Race and Ethnicity, Political Violence and Terrorism, Israel/Palestine, Critical Medical Anthropology, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Political Violence, Ethnic minorities, African Diaspora, Migration Studies, Anthropology of emotions, Ethnic Conflict, Blood Donation (Anthropology), Medical Anthropology/ antropología médica, Migration (Anthropology), Race and ethnicity (Anthropology), Anthropology of Ethiopia, Anthropology of Emotion, Ethnicity, Religion and Violence, Anthropology of Biomedicine, History of Race and Ethnicity, Anthropology of the Horn of Africa, Jewish Cultural Studies, Israel, Ethnicity & Ethnic Conflicts, HIV/AIDS (International Studies), Anthropology in Public Health, Ethnicity and Nationalism, History, politics, and culture of HIV/AIDS, HIV, Israel and Zionism, Religious Studies, Arab-Israeli conflict, Human Evolutionary Biology, Medical Anthropology, Global Health and Health policy, Judaic Studies, Violence and social suffering, Honor-Shame culture, Critical Public Health, Blood Banking, Ethiopian Jews, Beta Israel, Social Suffering, Social Suffering and Structural Injustice, .Medical Anthropology, Falasha, Ethiopian-European encounter, Palestine-Israel Conflict, Ethnicity and National Identity, Ethnic politics, Blood donation, Anthropology of Religion, immigration to Israel, Biomedicine and Bioethics, Ethiopia. Anthropology, Ethiopian Immigrants, Mediated Representations of Suffering, Sociology of Biomedicine and Health, and The Israelization of Ethiopian Immigrants as Welfare Clientsedit
Research Interests: Religion, Abrahamic Religions, Ethnic Studies, African Studies, Anthropology, and 60 moreJewish Studies, History of Religion, Ethiopian Studies, Race and Racism, Anthropology of the Body, African Diaspora Studies, African History, Critical Race Theory, African Religion in Africa and the Diaspora, Race and Ethnicity, Jewish History, Anthropology of Christianity, Missionary History, Religious Conversion, Christian Missions, History of Missions, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Jewish - Christian Relations, Ethnic Identity, African Diaspora, Race and Religion, Anthropology of Kinship, Critical Race Theory and Whiteness theory, African Religions, Race And Ethnicity (in ) migration of indigenous people, Race and ethnicity (Anthropology), Anthropology of Ethiopia, Ethiopia, Ethnicity, Modern Jewish History, History of Race and Ethnicity, Anthropology of the Horn of Africa, Anglican Church History, Jewish Cultural Studies, Lost Tribes of Israel Theory, Modern Judaism, Religious Studies, Race, Judaic Studies, Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity, Ethiopian Jews, Beta Israel, Proselytism, african Jews, black Jews, jazz, Ethiopian History, Falasha, Black-Jewish studies, Ethiopian-European encounter, Anthropology of Jewish communities, Ethnicity and National Identity, Religion and the Body, Social Construction of Race, Alliance Israélite Universelle, history of Ethiopia, Anthropology of Religion, Ethnicity and Identity Politics, Ethiopia. Anthropology, Ethiopian Immigrants, Ethiopian Christianity, and History of African Jews and Jews of the Caribbeanedit
Research Interests: Gender Studies, Jewish Studies, Anthropology of Gender, Autobiography, Gender Discourse, and 31 moreJewish Thought, Studies On Men And Masculinity, Cross-cultural autobiography, Gender and religion (Women s Studies), Rabbinic Literature, Memoir and Autobiography, Religion and Literature, Literature and Religion, Modern Jewish History, Constructions of masculinity, Modern Judaism, Social Construction of Sex and Gender, Religious Studies, Gender, Men and Masculinities, Women and Gender Studies, Judaic Studies, Modern Jewish Thought, Orthodox Judaism, Russian Jewry, Hasidism, Jewish Traditional Society, Haskalah, Cultural Studies and Literatures, Gender and Judaism, Women and halacha, Misnagdim, Gender, religion, masculinity and culture, Women in Jewish Tradition, Anthropology of Religion, women in Jewish law, Lithuanian Jewry, Rabbinic Textuality, and Volozhinedit
Research Interests: Jewish Law, Gender Studies, Jewish Studies, Gender Discourse, Rabbinic Literature, and 18 moreTheology of Suffering and Evil, Theologies of Suffering and Evil, Modern Judaism, Religious Studies, Gender, Men and Masculinities, Judaic Studies, Orthodox Judaism, Russian Jewry, Hasidism, Jewish Traditional Society, Halacha, Social Suffering, Halakha, Women and halacha, Misnagdim, Philosophy of halakhah, Torah Study, Torah Observance, Lithuanian Jewry, and Jewish Gender and Women's Studiesedit
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Research Interests: Religion, Psychological Anthropology, Medical Anthropology, Jewish Studies, Ethnography, and 32 moreIsrael Studies, Jewish Mysticism, Psychology of Religion, Cross-Cultural Psychology, Ethnography (Research Methodology), Transcultural Psychiatry, Psychiatric anthropology, Lived Religion, Religious Experience, Ethnography of Religion, Kabbalah, Hasidism, Anthropology of Biomedicine, Existential Anthropology, Phenomenology of Religion, Modern Judaism, Phenomenological Anthropology, Religious Studies, Psychoanalytic Anthropology, Anthropology of Experience, Kabbalah, Christian Kabbalah, Jewish Mysticism, Judaic Studies, Haredim, Jewish Orthodoxy, Rabbi shach, Anthropology of Mental Health, Haredim, Anthropology of Religion, Kaballah,chassidut,jewish Misticism, Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, Mystical Psychology, Phenomenology of Religions, Ultra Orthodoxy, and Ethnography of Jewish Communitiesedit
Research Interests: Religion, Comparative Religion, Anthropology, Psychological Anthropology, Medical Anthropology, and 25 moreEthnography, Psychoanalysis and religion, Ritual (Anthropology), Psychiatric anthropology, Ritual Theory, Lived Religion, Religious Experience, Anthropology of Biomedicine, Theology of Suffering and Evil, Anthropology of ethics and morality, Religious Studies, Anthropology of Experience, Healing and Religion, anthropology and Psychoanalisys, Ritual Healing, Anthropology of Ethics, Religion and psychology, Social Suffering, Suffering, Social Suffering and Structural Injustice, Psychology and Religion, Anthropology of Religion, Arthur Kleinman, Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, and Religion and Healingedit
DON SEEMAN ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE RELIGIOUS STUDENT: BETWEEN LOVE AND RESPECT "The love of [God's] creatures requires considerable effort if it is to be widened to its proper scope. This is against the shallow conclusion... more
DON SEEMAN
ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE RELIGIOUS
STUDENT: BETWEEN LOVE AND RESPECT
"The love of [God's] creatures requires considerable effort
if it is to be widened to its proper scope. This is against the shallow conclusion which can be reached at first glance, by means of insufficient preparation in the realm of Torah or that of practical morality, which makes it appear as if there is some opposition, or at least equanimity [in Judaism] regarding the attainment of this love, which should always fill all of the chambers of the soul. The most elevated state of love for the created beings needs to take the love of humans, and to extend it to include all of humanity entirely. Despite variation of opinions, religions, and faiths, and despite all the differentiations of race and clime, it is necessary to reach a deep understanding of all the different peoples and human collectivities, and as far as possible to learn their characteristics and traits, in order to determine how this human love may be established on foundations which will lead to action. "
--Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook Midot ha-Raayah'
In the spirit of the above quotation from the writings of Rav Kook, this article considers some of the promises and challenges which the study of anthropology can offer students today in their attempt to define an integrated religious response to human diversity. It compares Rav Kook's understanding of human diversity with that of his contemporary, Franz Boas, one of the founders of modern cultural anthropology.
Research Interests: Jewish Studies, Practical theology, Jewish Mysticism, Jewish Ethics, Jewish Thought, and 19 moreCultural Anthropology, Judaism, Anthropology and Religion, Religious Zionism, Anthropology of ethics and morality, Religious Studies, Judaic Studies, Modern Jewish Thought, Orthodox Judaism, Franz Boas, Rav Kook, Universalism vs particularism in Judaism, Religious Zionism, Theology and Religious Studies, Mussar, Jewish Folklore and Ethnography, Yiddish Folklore, Folk Medicine, Rabbi Kook, Modern Orthodox Judaism, Modern Jewish Thought and Theology, and Theology and Ethnographyedit
An early essay in which I examine the role of anthropology in Jewish law decisions with respect to the status of Ethiopian Jews in Israel. I argue that such data has in fact only limited relevance to the halakhic system, though it has... more
An early essay in which I examine the role of anthropology in Jewish law decisions with respect to the status of Ethiopian Jews in Israel. I argue that such data has in fact only limited relevance to the halakhic system, though it has been inconstantly invoked in halakhic discourse.
Research Interests: Religion, Abrahamic Religions, Jewish Law, Jewish Studies, Israel Studies, and 13 moreEthiopian Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Horn of Africa, Religious Studies, Judaic Studies, Orthodox Judaism, Ethiopian Jews, Beta Israel, History of Halakhah, Theology and Religious Studies, Ethiopian Jewry, Ethiopian Immigrants, and Modern Orthodox Judaismedit
Research Interests: Religion, Comparative Religion, Sociology of Religion, Jewish Studies, Practical theology, and 42 moreRitual, Jewish Mysticism, American Religion, Theology and Culture, Contemplative Studies, Faith, Jewish Thought, Jewish Philosophy, Material Religion, Messianism, Ritual Theory, Kabbalah, Judaism, Hasidism, Jewish Messianism, Jewish Cultural Studies, Religious Studies, American Judaism, Kabbalah, Christian Kabbalah, Jewish Mysticism, Judaic Studies, Modern Jewish Thought, Orthodox Judaism, Contemplative Prayer, Belief, Judaica, Orthodoxy, Religion and Public Life, Theology and Religious Studies, Ritual Practices, Chabad, Anthropology of Religion, Torah Study, Habad, Musar Movement In Lithuania, Material Culture and Religioin, Jewish Mysticism/Kababalah, Modern Orthodox Judaism, Lubavitch Hasidism, Hafetz Hayim, Musar, Simple Faith, and Israel Meir Hacohen Kaganedit
Research Interests: Abrahamic Religions, Sociology of Religion, Ethnic Studies, Jewish Studies, American Religion, and 15 moreEthnicity, Judaism, Modern Judaism, Religious Studies, American Judaism, Reform Judaism, sociology of religion, Secularization, Judaic Studies, Orthodox Judaism, ethnic studies – Jewish American identities, Conservative Judaism, 20th Century American Judaism, American Jewish Studies, Secular Judaism, and Ethnography of Jewish Communitiesedit
Research Interests: Jewish Studies, Material culture of religion, Prayer, Theology and Culture, Comparative Mysticism, and 19 moreContemplative Studies, Jewish Thought, Hasidism, Phenomenology of Religion, Modern Judaism, Phenomenological Anthropology, Religious Studies, Judaic Studies, Modern Jewish Thought, Contemplative Prayer, Jewish Prayer, Spirituality and Prayer, Anthropology of Judaism, Anthropology of Jewish communities, Chabad, Anthropology of Religion, Chassidism, Religion and Materiality, and Jewish Mysticism/Kababalahedit
Research Interests: Psychological Anthropology, Jewish Studies, Material culture of religion, Jewish Mysticism, Neuroanthropology, and 24 moreWilliam James, Theology and Culture, Jewish Thought, Religious Studies (Theory And Methodology), Psychological Anthropolgy, Ritual Theory, Religious Experience, Hasidism, Maimonides, Modern Judaism, Phenomenological Anthropology, Religious Studies, Judaic Studies, Modern Jewish Thought, Orthodox Judaism, Anthropology of Judaism, Chabad, Rambam, Anthropology of Religion, Habad, Chassidism, Religion and Materiality, James Williams, and Hasidic Chabadedit
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Based on ethnographic research I conducted as senior honors student, this paper examines the ways in which Ethiopians in Israel talk about race and color as elements of both distinction and shared identity in the context of meetings with... more
Based on ethnographic research I conducted as senior honors student, this paper examines the ways in which Ethiopians in Israel talk about race and color as elements of both distinction and shared identity in the context of meetings with African Americans, white Israeli and American Jews and Black Hebrews in Israel
Research Interests: Jewish Studies, Middle East Studies, Israel Studies, Ethiopian Studies, Race and Racism, and 12 moreRace and Ethnicity, Race and ethnicity (Anthropology), Israeli Society, Anthropology of the Horn of Africa, Judaic Studies, Ethiopian Jews, Beta Israel, Anthropology of Religion, Ethiopian Jewry, Ethiopian Immigrants, Anthropology of Jews and Judaism, and Ethnography of Jewish Communitiesedit
Research Interests: Sociology of Religion, Jewish Studies, Anthropology of Christianity, Ritual Theory, Ethnography of Religion, and 10 moreReligious Studies, Sociology and Anthropology of Religion, Anthropology of Islam, Theology and Religious Studies, Anthropology of Judaism, Anthropology of Jewish communities, Anthropology of Religion, Ethnography, Anthropology, History of Religions, Ethnography of Jewish Communities, and Anthropology of Indian Religionedit
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The Tam Institute for Jewish Studies at Emory University is pleased to announce a two day international workshop (March 18-19, 2015) convened by Prof. Don Seeman and Dr. Shlomo Guzmen: "Jews, Text and Ethnography." This workshop will... more
The Tam Institute for Jewish Studies at Emory University is pleased to announce a two day international workshop (March 18-19, 2015) convened by Prof. Don Seeman and Dr. Shlomo Guzmen: "Jews, Text and Ethnography." This workshop will address critical theoretical and methodological issues in the anthropology of Judaism as well as comparative issues raised by the anthropology of textuality in Christianity and Islam. Participants include Jonathan Boyarin (Cornell University) Philip Wexler (the Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Ayala Fader (Fordham), Marcy Brink Danan (The Hebrew University), Don Seeman (Emory) Alan Brill (Seton Hall), Simon Dein (University College, London), James Bielo (Miami University) and Sam Cooper (Bar-Ilan). More Details to Follow.
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What is the relationship between friendship and human flourishing? This is a central topic in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics and one to which Maimonides also returned throughout his career. Despite the relative neglect of this topic in... more
What is the relationship between friendship and human flourishing? This is a central topic in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics and one to which Maimonides also returned throughout his career. Despite the relative neglect of this topic in recent scholarship, I argue that friendship (philia) was an important link between moral and intellectual perfection for Maimonides. He identified Aristotle’s virtue friendship with the love between students and teachers and also interpreted many of the divine commandments as efforts to promote both family and virtue friendship among the Jewish people. Friendship was aligned thematically in Maimonides’ writings with topics like kinship and sexuality, circumcision, and the ethics of speech, all of which point in different ways to the unresolved tension between rational and sensual aspects of our human condition. This article therefore contributes to the investigation of the relationship between Maimonides’ legal and philosophical writing on social themes. While Aristotle clearly influenced his reading of biblical and rabbinic texts for example, I will also argue that Maimonides’ religious and communal commitments helped to push his reading of Aristotle in a broadly inclusive direction— both with respect to the range of different goods that are appropriate to an ideal human life as well as the potential accessibility of those goods to different classes of persons. I offer this article as a corrective to the exaggerated focus on seclusion and solitary contemplation that has characterized academic scholarship on Maimonides.
Research Interests: Jewish Studies, Aristotle, Virtue Ethics, Friendship Studies, History of Sociability, and 28 moreMedieval Kinship, Philosophy Of Friendship, Anthropology of Kinship, Jewish Thought, Jewish Philosophy, Friendship, Medieval Jewish Philosophy, Aristotelianism, Jewish Ethics, Maimonides, Nicomachean Ethics, Judeo-Arabic, Aristotle's Ethics, Maimonides, Religious Studies, Joseph Shem Tov, Medieval Aristotelianism, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, Judaica, Mishneh Torah, Theology and Religious Studies, Reception of Aristotelian philosophy in the Middle Ages, Neo-Aristotelianism, Aristotelian Ethics, Medieval Aristotelian Tradition, Rambam, Guide for the Perplexed, Medieval Judaica, and Aristotle on Virtueedit
Research Interests: Psychological Anthropology, Jewish Studies, Israel Studies, Ethiopian Studies, African Diaspora Studies, and 26 moreAfrican Religion in Africa and the Diaspora, Anthropology of Christianity, Jewish - Christian Relations, Anthropology of Ethiopia, Religious Experience, Ethnography of Religion, African Diasporic Religions, Existential Anthropology, Phenomenological Anthropology, Anthropology of ethics and morality, Religious Studies, Anthropology of Experience, Judaic Studies, Ethiopian Jews, Beta Israel, Falasha, Anthropology of Jewish communities, African pentecostalism, Global Pentecostalism, Ethiopian, Anthropology of Religion, Ethiopian Jewry, Ethiopia. Anthropology, Ethiopian Immigrants, Ethiopian Christianity, and Anthropology of Jews and Judaismedit
Research Interests: Comparative Religion, Anthropology, Psychological Anthropology, Jewish Studies, Literature, and 22 moreMindfulness, Jewish Mysticism, American Religion, Contemplative Studies, Buddhist Psychology, Transcultural Psychiatry, Psychiatric anthropology, Ritual Theory, Ethnography of Religion, Hasidism, Religious Studies, Judaic Studies, Contemplative Prayer, Mindfulness Meditation, Buddhist modernism, Mindfulness & CBT, Buddhist Meditation, Jewish Mysticism, Hasidism, Chabad, Anthropology of Religion, Chassidism, and Contemplative Practicesedit
Bioethics has emerged as an academic discipline shaping the ways in which new reproductive technologies are used and conceptualized. While kinship and reproduction almost always raise implicit questions about... more
Bioethics has emerged as an academic discipline shaping the ways in which new reproductive technologies are used and conceptualized. While kinship and reproduction almost always raise implicit questions about ethics, the nature of personhood and the structure of cosmology, self-defined “religious bioethics” has done so in specially explicit and powerful ways. In recent years, moreover, the English language literature on first Christian and then Jewish bioethics has also burgeoned with attempts to create Muslim, Hindu and Buddhist bioethical accounts drawing on distinctive hermeneutic traditions and ethical strategies—each seeking a “seat at the table” - and the ability to help shape or enter into a conversation with the dominant biomedical (and avowedly secular) bioethical discourse. Yet while anthropologists have developed a significant literature engaging and critiquing the dominant biomedical discourse on reproduction, there has been far less explicit engagement with this emerging sacred bioethical literature. This chapter probes the relationship between avowedly sacred and secular bioethical discourses with respect to reproductive technology. It probes the relationship between the theologies and ethnographies of assisted reproduction and what these fields might learn from one another.
Research Interests: Abrahamic Religions, Jewish Studies, Ethnography, Kinship (Anthropology), Male Circumcision, and 17 moreAnthropology of Christianity, Anthropology of Kinship, Jewish Thought, Maimonides, Kinship and Relatedness (Anthropology), Religious Studies, Judaic Studies, Ethiopian Jews, Beta Israel, Marshall Sahlins, Kinship and Family Studies, Biblical Abraham narrative, Spiritual Kinship, Anthropology of Judaism, Rambam, Anthropology of Religion, and Book of Levitedit
Research Interests: Buddhism, Comparative Religion, Anthropology, Psychological Anthropology, Medical Anthropology, and 40 moreJewish Studies, History of Religion, Christian Mysticism, Jewish Mysticism, Psychology of Religion, Phenomenology, Cross-Cultural Psychology, William James, Mysticism, History of Religions, Comparative Mysticism, Psychoanalysis and religion, Transcultural Psychiatry, William Blake, Literature and Religion, Religious Experience, Ethnography of Religion, Theosophy, Buddhist societies (Anthropology), Phenomenology of Religion, Spirituality and Mysticism, Anthropology of ethics and morality, Comparative Religions, Comparative study of religion, Anthropology of Experience, Meditation, Mystical Experience and Gnosis, Comparative Mystical Literature, Anthropology of Buddhism, Anthropology of South Asia, Mystical experience, Mystical literature, Gananath Obeyesekere, Psychology and Religion, Anthropology of Religion, Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, Unio Mystica, Schools of Mystical Thought and Evolution of Them, Contemplative Practices, and Anthropology of visionary experiencesedit
Research Interests: Medical Sociology, Medical Anthropology, Public Policy, Jewish Studies, Bioethics, and 23 moreEthnography, Israel Studies, Israel/Palestine, Critical Medical Anthropology, Public Health, Israeli Society, Israeli Culture, Israeli-Arab Relations, Israel, HIV, Israel and Zionism, Social Inequality, Israel-Palestine, Arab-Israeli conflict, Sociology of Health and Illness, Judaic Studies, International Public Health, Ethiopian Jews, Bedouins, Social Suffering, Social Suffering and Structural Injustice, Negev Bedouin, and Israeli Politics and Societyedit
Research Interests: Jewish American Literature, Sociology of Religion, Jewish Studies, Popular Culture and Religious Studies, Culture Studies, and 18 moreReligion, Media, and Culture, Ethnography of Religion, Judaism, Jewish Cultural Studies, Modern Judaism, Religious Fundamentalism, Religious Studies, Orthodox Judaism, Judaica, Theology and Religious Studies, Anthropology of Judaism, Haredim, Anthropology of Religion, Modern Orthodox Judaism, 20th Century American Judaism, Hareidim, Anthropology of Jews and Judaism, and Ethnography of Jewish Communitiesedit
Research Interests: Jewish Studies, Israel Studies, African Religion in Africa and the Diaspora, Israeli Society, Ethnography of Religion, and 18 moreJudaism, Anthropology of the Horn of Africa, Jewish Cultural Studies, Modern Judaism, Religious Studies, Judaic Studies, Ethiopian Jews, Beta Israel, Judaica, Falasha, Anthropology of Judaism, Anthropology of Jewish communities, Anthropology of Religion, Ethiopian Jewry, Ethiopian Immigrants, Israeli Politics and Society, Anthropology of Jews and Judaism, and Ethnography of Jewish Communitiesedit
Research Interests: Religion, Comparative Religion, Anthropology, History of Religion, Ethiopian Studies, and 26 moreReligion and Politics, Indigenous Religions, African Religion in Africa and the Diaspora, Post-Marxism, Anthropology of Christianity, Missionary History, Religious Conversion, Christian Missions, History of Missions, Evangelical movements, Anthropology of Ethiopia, Ethiopia, Anthropology of Time, Ethnography of Religion, Anthropology of the Horn of Africa, Religious Studies, Marxism and religion, Ethiopian History, Anthropology of Socialism and Postsocialism, Marxist anthropology, Anthropology of Religion, Religion In Ethiopia, African Studies/ African History /Social Anthropology/African Econ, Ethiopia. Anthropology, Ethiopian Christianity, and Anthropology of Protestantismedit
Research Interests: Comparative Religion, Sociology of Religion, Practice theory, Practical theology, Chinese Religions, and 17 moreSocial and Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology of Christianity, Theology and Culture, Ritual (Anthropology), Ritual Theory, Religious Experience, Ethnography of Religion, Religious Fundamentalism, Comparative Religions, Religious Studies, Ritual Studies, Orthodox Judaism, Theology and Religious Studies, Anthropology of Judaism, Anthropology of Religion, Religious and Magical Practices, and Ethnography of Jewish Communitiesedit
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Research Interests: Anthropology, Psychological Anthropology, Kinship (Anthropology), History of Anthropology, Personal and Moral Autonomy, and 11 moreAnthropology of Kinship, Anthropology of emotions, Anthropology of Emotion, Kinship and Relatedness (Anthropology), Anthropology of ethics and morality, West Papua, Anthropology of Experience, Death, Grief, and Mourning, Grief and Loss, Kinship and Family Studies, and Social Sufferingedit
Research Interests: Sociology of Religion, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Agency Theory, Personal and Moral Autonomy, Ethnography (Research Methodology), and 11 moreMichel Foucault, Phenomenological Sociology, Existential Anthropology, Sociology of religion (Religion), Moral and Political Philosophy, Phenomenological Anthropology, Anthropology of ethics and morality, Anthropology of Experience, Structure and Agency, Anthropology of Religion, and STRUCTURE AND AGENCY DEBATE IN SOCIAL SCIENCEedit
Research Interests: Medical Sociology, Medical Anthropology, Classics, History of Medicine, Chinese Religions, and 21 moreAnthropology of the Body, History of Science, Chinese Medicine, Critical Medical Anthropology, History of Medicine in China, Phenomenology of the body, Acupuncture, Ancient Greek History, Chinese medicine (History), History of Medicine and the Body, Ancient Greek and Roman Art, Comparative Medicine, Phenomenological Anthropology, Ancient Greek Philosophy / Aristotle, Traditional Chinese Medicine, History of the Body, Ancient Greek Medicine, History of Chinese Medicine, History of Ancient Medicine, History of Biological Sciences, and Acupuncture Historyedit
Research Interests: Jewish Studies, Jewish Mysticism, Jewish Thought, Kabbalah, Hasidism, and 14 moreModern Judaism, Religious Studies, Judaic Studies, Orthodox Judaism, Comparative Mystical Literature, Holocaust Shoah, Esh Kodesh, Theology and Religious Studies, Jewish Mysticism, Hasidism, Hasidism, Przysucha, personal redemption, Chassidism, Holocaust Themed Literature, Jewish Mysticism/Kababalah, and Holocaust Theologyedit
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