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Rachel
Werczberger

Ariel University

Research Topic

Jewish Prayer in Late Modernity and the Emergence of New Emotional Styles

Bio

Rachel Werczberger researches New Age spirituality, new (religious) social movements, and gender and religion and sociology and anthropology in Judaism. 

Werczberger completed her PhD at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem with a dissertation titled "Jewish Spiritual Renewal in Israel and the New Age Movement."

Fellowship

2020–2021
America’s Jewish Questions

Delving into some of the most pressing debates within US history and Jewish history, and examining vital questions shaping Jewish cultural studies, literary theory, and social scientific inquiry

2015–2016
Jews Beyond Reason: Exploring Emotion, the Unconscious, and Other Dimensions of Jews' Inner Lives

Exploring aspects of internal life that lie beyond reason—emotions and feelings, the unconscious, sensation, imagination, impulse, intuition, and the nonrational dimensions of reason itself.