Celia E Rothenberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 139661 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Celia E Rothenberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Celia E |
| FAMILY NAME | Rothenberg |
| SIGNATURE | ROTHENBERG C E |
| AFFILIATIONS | McMaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3898-4864 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Jewish commentaries on Star Wars: Theology, history, and debate
This paper examines how pop culture commentators, rabbis, bloggers, and others create commentaries on the implicit Jewish dimensions of Star Wars movies. These midrashic commentaries fundamentally challenge the conceptual divide between pop culture and religious life, and online religion and religion online. Commentaries examined here are grouped into three categories, including those created by commentators who link a range of points from Jewish…
On Doing Fieldwork in Palestine
On Doing Fieldwork in Palestine: Advice, Fieldnotes, and Other Thoughts
On Doing Fieldwork in Palestine: Advice, Fieldnotes, and Other Thoughts
Part III: Other Thoughts
American Metaphysical Judaism
American metaphysical Judaism draws on traditional Jewish practices and texts as well as the American metaphysical religious tradition. This article challenges the relegation of American metaphysical Judaism to the category “New Age Judaism” and opens the door to exploring this area of religious expression in its historical and current forms. Drawing on my fieldwork with, and the writings of, rabbi and shaman Gershon Winkler, I offer an ethnograp…
Islam on the Internet: The Jinn and the Objectification of Islam
This paper is an ontological investigation of discourses about the jinn, or spirits, on an Internet information portal site and a chat room. These Web discourses relate to what some anthropologists have termed the Great and Little Traditions of Islam, but with greater disparity than could ever be identified in “real world,” Muslim-majority settings. Great and Little Web jinn discourses may best be understood as existing in dialectical tension wit…
Willful Overlooking: Stories from the Islamic Diaspora and the Palestinian West Bank
This article tells a series of stories that speak to the importance of the human capacity of willful overlooking. When we exercise willful overlooking in our interactions with others, we may allow a potentially fracturing moment to pass, an uncomfortable situation to be tolerated, or an opportunity to present itself. Willful overlooking is exercised in our friendships and romances, our bureaucratic and public exchanges, and in many other social e…
Jewish Yoga: Experiencing Flexible, Sacred, and Jewish Bodies
This article delineates and explores three distinctive, although frequently overlapping forms of "Jewish yoga": Judaicized yoga, Hebrew yoga, and Torah yoga. Each of these is an evolving system of mental, spiritual, and physical experiences based both on yogic practices and on a variety of Jewish teachings as interpreted by different Jewish yoga teachers. To contextualize the development and spread of all types of Jewish yoga, I begin by briefly …
New Age Jews: Jewish Shamanism and Jewish Yoga
This article examines the teachings and practices of Jewish shamanism and Jewish yoga to demonstrate New Age Judaism's two key characteristics. First, New Age Jews firmly believe in and work to construct a Jewish ‘core’ or essence within their explicitly syncretic practices and philosophies. Second, New Age Jews emphasise the achievement of individual healing through embodied practice as the goal of their spiritual practices. New Age Judaism can …
Hebrew Healing: Jewish Authenticity and Religious Healing in Canada
This paper describes a Jewish healing group, referred to as ‘Yehi Ohr’, and discusses strategies for constructing religious authenticity employed by Yehi Ohr's leader and the rabbis who have assisted in leading Yehi Ohr's service. A discussion of the participants in the healing service follows, with an outline of their criteria for authenticity and a focus on the range of their healing experiences. By demonstrating the centrality of these strateg…
Pilgrimage and Healing: Pilgrimage and Healing
Pilgrimage and Healing
Pilgrimage and Healing. Jill Dubisch and Michael Winkelman, eds. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2005. 268 pp
Spirits of Palestine: Gender, Society, and Stories of the Jinn
The Palestinian Muslim village of Artas is cradled in the lap of four mountains in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Although Artas has experienced the violence of Israeli occupation, Spirits of Palestine does not focus exclusively on the villagers' experiences of violence, terrorism, or loss. This ethnography looks instead at the daily lives of Palestinian women and men and how they relate to tragedies and difficulties both large and small. Throug…
Ties that Bind: The Gulf Palestinian Community in Toronto
This paper briefly sketches the history of Palestinian immigration to both the Gulf region and Toronto, Canada, weaving in the life histories of five women who are part of the most recent wave of Palestinian arrivals in Canada as a result of the Gulf War. The paper then examines the nature of this newly established diaspora community in Toronto, focussing in particular on: (1) processes of personal adjustment; (2) the ways in which this group of …
Believing Women: Harari and Palestinian Women at Home and in the Canadian Diaspora
2000). Believing Women: Harari and Palestinian Women at Home and in the Canadian Diaspora. Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs: Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 243-259
Patriarchy and Purdah: Structural and Systemic Violence against Women in Bangladesh
Understanding Ghada: The Multiple Meanings of an Attempted Stabbing
Celia Rothenberg, Understanding Ghada: The Multiple Meanings of an Attempted Stabbing, Middle East Report, No. 210, Reform or Reaction? Dilemmas of Economic Development in the Middle East (Spring, 1999), pp. 10-12
Proximity and Distance: Palestinian Women's Social Lives in Diaspora
This article focuses on how women in two Palestinian diaspora communities-one in Jordan and the other in Toronto-experience social ties to those they have left behind in the West Bank and to others within their adopted communities. This analysis allows for a synchronic comparison of the nature and effects of these diaspora locations on areas of social life that are central to women's daily lives. It is my hope that this study will complement othe…
A Review of the Anthropological Literature in English on the Palestinian "Ḥamūla" and the Status of Women
The following is a survey of the anthropological literature in English on the Palestinian ḥamūla, the extended family or clan, and Palestinian women’s lives in the West Bank. Both areas of the literature are in certain respects problematic; in particular, actors’ agency and women’s experiences are often overlooked. The article concludes by presenting the notion of social geography—a concept which looks at how the geographical location of neighbor…
Believing Women: Harari and Palestinian Women at Home and in the Canadian Diaspora
2000). Believing Women: Harari and Palestinian Women at Home and in the Canadian Diaspora. Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs: Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 243-259
Hebrew Healing: Jewish Authenticity and Religious Healing in Canada
This paper describes a Jewish healing group, referred to as ‘Yehi Ohr’, and discusses strategies for constructing religious authenticity employed by Yehi Ohr's leader and the rabbis who have assisted in leading Yehi Ohr's service. A discussion of the participants in the healing service follows, with an outline of their criteria for authenticity and a focus on the range of their healing experiences. By demonstrating the centrality of these strateg…
Islam on the Internet: The Jinn and the Objectification of Islam
This paper is an ontological investigation of discourses about the jinn, or spirits, on an Internet information portal site and a chat room. These Web discourses relate to what some anthropologists have termed the Great and Little Traditions of Islam, but with greater disparity than could ever be identified in “real world,” Muslim-majority settings. Great and Little Web jinn discourses may best be understood as existing in dialectical tension wit…
New Age Jews: Jewish Shamanism and Jewish Yoga
This article examines the teachings and practices of Jewish shamanism and Jewish yoga to demonstrate New Age Judaism's two key characteristics. First, New Age Jews firmly believe in and work to construct a Jewish ‘core’ or essence within their explicitly syncretic practices and philosophies. Second, New Age Jews emphasise the achievement of individual healing through embodied practice as the goal of their spiritual practices. New Age Judaism can …
Pilgrimage and Healing: Pilgrimage and Healing
A Review of the Anthropological Literature in English on the Palestinian "Ḥamūla" and the Status of Women
The following is a survey of the anthropological literature in English on the Palestinian ḥamūla, the extended family or clan, and Palestinian women’s lives in the West Bank. Both areas of the literature are in certain respects problematic; in particular, actors’ agency and women’s experiences are often overlooked. The article concludes by presenting the notion of social geography—a concept which looks at how the geographical location of neighbor…
Understanding Ghada: The Multiple Meanings of an Attempted Stabbing
Celia Rothenberg, Understanding Ghada: The Multiple Meanings of an Attempted Stabbing, Middle East Report, No. 210, Reform or Reaction? Dilemmas of Economic Development in the Middle East (Spring, 1999), pp. 10-12
Proximity and Distance: Palestinian Women's Social Lives in Diaspora
This article focuses on how women in two Palestinian diaspora communities-one in Jordan and the other in Toronto-experience social ties to those they have left behind in the West Bank and to others within their adopted communities. This analysis allows for a synchronic comparison of the nature and effects of these diaspora locations on areas of social life that are central to women's daily lives. It is my hope that this study will complement othe…
Ties that Bind: The Gulf Palestinian Community in Toronto
This paper briefly sketches the history of Palestinian immigration to both the Gulf region and Toronto, Canada, weaving in the life histories of five women who are part of the most recent wave of Palestinian arrivals in Canada as a result of the Gulf War. The paper then examines the nature of this newly established diaspora community in Toronto, focussing in particular on: (1) processes of personal adjustment; (2) the ways in which this group of …
Believing Women: Harari and Palestinian Women at Home and in the Canadian Diaspora
2000). Believing Women: Harari and Palestinian Women at Home and in the Canadian Diaspora. Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs: Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 243-259
Patriarchy and Purdah: Structural and Systemic Violence against Women in Bangladesh
Spirits of Palestine: Gender, Society, and Stories of the Jinn
The Palestinian Muslim village of Artas is cradled in the lap of four mountains in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Although Artas has experienced the violence of Israeli occupation, Spirits of Palestine does not focus exclusively on the villagers' experiences of violence, terrorism, or loss. This ethnography looks instead at the daily lives of Palestinian women and men and how they relate to tragedies and difficulties both large and small. Throug…
Jewish Yoga: Experiencing Flexible, Sacred, and Jewish Bodies
This article delineates and explores three distinctive, although frequently overlapping forms of "Jewish yoga": Judaicized yoga, Hebrew yoga, and Torah yoga. Each of these is an evolving system of mental, spiritual, and physical experiences based both on yogic practices and on a variety of Jewish teachings as interpreted by different Jewish yoga teachers. To contextualize the development and spread of all types of Jewish yoga, I begin by briefly …
New Age Jews: Jewish Shamanism and Jewish Yoga
This article examines the teachings and practices of Jewish shamanism and Jewish yoga to demonstrate New Age Judaism's two key characteristics. First, New Age Jews firmly believe in and work to construct a Jewish ‘core’ or essence within their explicitly syncretic practices and philosophies. Second, New Age Jews emphasise the achievement of individual healing through embodied practice as the goal of their spiritual practices. New Age Judaism can …
Hebrew Healing: Jewish Authenticity and Religious Healing in Canada
This paper describes a Jewish healing group, referred to as ‘Yehi Ohr’, and discusses strategies for constructing religious authenticity employed by Yehi Ohr's leader and the rabbis who have assisted in leading Yehi Ohr's service. A discussion of the participants in the healing service follows, with an outline of their criteria for authenticity and a focus on the range of their healing experiences. By demonstrating the centrality of these strateg…
Pilgrimage and Healing: Pilgrimage and Healing
Pilgrimage and Healing
Pilgrimage and Healing. Jill Dubisch and Michael Winkelman, eds. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2005. 268 pp
Willful Overlooking: Stories from the Islamic Diaspora and the Palestinian West Bank
This article tells a series of stories that speak to the importance of the human capacity of willful overlooking. When we exercise willful overlooking in our interactions with others, we may allow a potentially fracturing moment to pass, an uncomfortable situation to be tolerated, or an opportunity to present itself. Willful overlooking is exercised in our friendships and romances, our bureaucratic and public exchanges, and in many other social e…
Islam on the Internet: The Jinn and the Objectification of Islam
This paper is an ontological investigation of discourses about the jinn, or spirits, on an Internet information portal site and a chat room. These Web discourses relate to what some anthropologists have termed the Great and Little Traditions of Islam, but with greater disparity than could ever be identified in “real world,” Muslim-majority settings. Great and Little Web jinn discourses may best be understood as existing in dialectical tension wit…
American Metaphysical Judaism
American metaphysical Judaism draws on traditional Jewish practices and texts as well as the American metaphysical religious tradition. This article challenges the relegation of American metaphysical Judaism to the category “New Age Judaism” and opens the door to exploring this area of religious expression in its historical and current forms. Drawing on my fieldwork with, and the writings of, rabbi and shaman Gershon Winkler, I offer an ethnograp…
On Doing Fieldwork in Palestine
On Doing Fieldwork in Palestine: Advice, Fieldnotes, and Other Thoughts
On Doing Fieldwork in Palestine: Advice, Fieldnotes, and Other Thoughts
Part III: Other Thoughts
Jewish commentaries on Star Wars: Theology, history, and debate
This paper examines how pop culture commentators, rabbis, bloggers, and others create commentaries on the implicit Jewish dimensions of Star Wars movies. These midrashic commentaries fundamentally challenge the conceptual divide between pop culture and religious life, and online religion and religion online. Commentaries examined here are grouped into three categories, including those created by commentators who link a range of points from Jewish…
History (13 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Archaeology (7 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (7 works) · Ancient history (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Diaspora (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · History (5 works)