Sarah Imhoff
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 457011 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Sarah Imhoff |
| NOMBRES | Sarah |
| APELLIDO | Imhoff |
| FIRMA | IMHOFF S |
| AFILIACIONES | Indiana University Bloomington |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5169-5258 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2009 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Shofar vibrations and braille scrolls
The Woman Question in Jewish Studies
A critical look at the difficulties women face in the field of Jewish studies, drawing on quantitative data, personal stories, and the gendered history of the field The field of Jewish studies has expanded significantly in recent years, with increasing numbers of women entering the field. These scholars have brought new perspectives from studies of women, gender, and sexuality. Yet they have also faced institutional and individual obstacles. In t…
The Trouble with Freedom
This response to Julia Watts Belser’s Loving Our Own Bones argues in favor of mutual dependence over freedom. It suggests that freedom in the abstract may not be the goal toward which Belser’s book really pushes us, nor is it the means to the goal. Rather, one might suggest, it actually moves us toward a world where we recognize our mutual interdependence and emphasizes how in important ways (though certainly not all ways) we might be less free
“The Deposed Queen”
When I started to think about how the field of religious studies has changed over the last 50 years, I read through quite a few essays on the state of the field. Religious studies can be an almost obsessively self-reflective field, and it appears I am guilty of this solipsism, too. The Talmudist Saul Lieberman once famously said, “Nonsense is nonsense, but the history of nonsense is scholarship” (Ozick 2002, 143). I hope that, like nonsense, the …
Heathen
Journal Article Heathen: Religion and Race in American History. By Kathryn Gin Lum Get access Heathen: Religion and Race in American History. By Kathryn Gin Lum. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022. 282pp. $35.00. Sarah Imhoff Sarah Imhoff Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Church and State, csad090, https://doi.org/10.1093/jcs…
The impossibility of ethical citation
This piece responds to the articles of Castor, Hovland, Halvorson, and Pérez in this issue. It notes their moments of resonance and disagreement, and it ultimately concludes that the reason why we can have no consistent and thoroughgoing ethics of citation is because it is a practice that is embedded in an academic ecosystem with unequal foundations
Friends Are the Cream of Life
American Jewish writers Mary Antin and Jessie Sampter met as teenagers in 1899. Throughout the next four decades, they wrote letters and visited each other, discussing literature, politics, and life. Independently, both women achieved some professional success. Antin's autobiography, The Promised Land, launched her to national fame, before she withdrew from public life to focus on religious pursuits. Sampter supported Zionist efforts from the Uni…
Floating Jews”—The luftmentsh as an Economic Character
The Yiddish word “luftmentsh”, literally “air-person”, refers to petty traders, peddlers, beggars and paupers. The word appeared for the first time in Yiddish literature in the 1860s and began to be used by economists and statisticians in the 1880s-1890s. The case of the luftmentsh is particularly interesting because of the interplay of religion, gender, antisemitism, and economics. This article focuses on the term luftmentsh in economic and stat…
Race, Religion, and Jewish Sexuality in an Age of Immigration
David S. Koffman. The Jews’ Indian
The Jews’ Indian: Colonialism, Pluralism, and Belonging in America presents a broad look at how Jews in the United States have “[made] use of Indians, both real and imagined” from the nineteenth century to the present (3). It traverses a wide historical swath, from well-established topics such as imagining Native Americans as part of the Ten Lost Tribes and Jewish-Indian encounters on the western frontier to little-known stories about Jewish lawy…
Religious Freedom
American history is littered with the successes and failures of legal arguments for religious freedom. We see these cases in US courts today, from cake bakers who assert that discrimination on the basis of sexuality is a matter of their own religious exercise to Native Hawaiian claims of protected religious exercise to prevent the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope on the mountain Mauna Kea. Tisa Wenger tells us a longer history, from the…
Lineage Matters
Based on ethnographic and archival research conducted on North American Judaism and Messianic Judaism, this article argues that each group uses DNA in what appear to be sociologically similar ways but that actually differ profoundly at the theological level. Our analysis moves beyond DNA testing per se to focus on what anthropologist Kim Tallbear calls "gene talk," referring to "the idea that essential truths about identity inhere in sequences of…
Why Disability Studies Needs to Take Religion Seriously
Religion and theology are central ways that many people make sense of the world and their own place in that world. But the insights of critical studies of religion, or what is sometimes positioned as religious studies as opposed to theology, are scarce in disability literature. This article suggests some of the costs of this oversight and some of the benefits of including religion. First, this article discusses how some past scholarly engagements…
The Creation Story, or How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Schempp
Many scholars highlight the 1963 Supreme Court Schempp decision as a major turning point, or even a point of origin for the field of religious studies. This origins narrative rests on two related ideas: first, Schempp provided the legal basis for public universities to have departments of religious studies, and second, Schempp posited a differentiation between teaching religiosity and studying religion. But neither can bear the weight that the Sc…
Wild tribes and ancient Semites
Rabbi Henry Cohen of Galveston, Texas, carefully preserved a 1916 pamphlet that claimed a common history for ‘Wild Tribes’ of Indians and Jews of antiquity. Why would a Jewish author tie the customs of ‘uncivilised’ tribes to his own religion, and why might it capture Cohen's attention? This article suggests that the ‘Indian-Israelite’ identification appealed to acculturated Jews like Cohen as part of a wider embrace of a vision of manhood that a…
Jewish identification and critical theory
This symposium examines how various discursive frameworks inform Jewish and non-Jewish interpretations of Jewishness. Although the specific characteristics of these frameworks are context-dependent, the underlying themes remain the same: Jewish identification entails identifying "difference," and this process of drawing distinctions between Jews and non-Jews gets developed in discursive frameworks of temporality, "race thinking," nationalism, and…
My Sons Have Defeated Me
wrote, "Modern man who has ceased to believe, without ceasing to be credulous, hangs, as it were, between heaven and earth, and is at rest nowhere." 1 The secular Lippmann located the source of this feeling of unmooredness in the particulars of modernity, where the religions of the past were no longer credible, but men (and also, although not in an identical way, women) still sought something to believe in. If the acids of modernity-in his famous…
Members of the Tribe
All in the Family? Jewish Intermarriage in America
Enlightenment in the Colony
Uncompromising Positions
This edited volume utilizes multidisciplinary approaches to explore the infusion of Mexican American religions in political activism, literature, healing practices, and popular culture.Specifically, this work's application of poly-methodic approaches emphasizes social scientific orientations without marginalizing traditional methodologies such as liberation theology and church studies.As a result of taking a "nonnormative" hermeneutical stance, e…
Lineage Matters
Based on ethnographic and archival research conducted on North American Judaism and Messianic Judaism, this article argues that each group uses DNA in what appear to be sociologically similar ways but that actually differ profoundly at the theological level. Our analysis moves beyond DNA testing per se to focus on what anthropologist Kim Tallbear calls "gene talk," referring to "the idea that essential truths about identity inhere in sequences of…
The Creation Story, or How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Schempp
Many scholars highlight the 1963 Supreme Court Schempp decision as a major turning point, or even a point of origin for the field of religious studies. This origins narrative rests on two related ideas: first, Schempp provided the legal basis for public universities to have departments of religious studies, and second, Schempp posited a differentiation between teaching religiosity and studying religion. But neither can bear the weight that the Sc…
The impossibility of ethical citation
This piece responds to the articles of Castor, Hovland, Halvorson, and Pérez in this issue. It notes their moments of resonance and disagreement, and it ultimately concludes that the reason why we can have no consistent and thoroughgoing ethics of citation is because it is a practice that is embedded in an academic ecosystem with unequal foundations
Why Disability Studies Needs to Take Religion Seriously
Religion and theology are central ways that many people make sense of the world and their own place in that world. But the insights of critical studies of religion, or what is sometimes positioned as religious studies as opposed to theology, are scarce in disability literature. This article suggests some of the costs of this oversight and some of the benefits of including religion. First, this article discusses how some past scholarly engagements…
Jewish identification and critical theory
This symposium examines how various discursive frameworks inform Jewish and non-Jewish interpretations of Jewishness. Although the specific characteristics of these frameworks are context-dependent, the underlying themes remain the same: Jewish identification entails identifying "difference," and this process of drawing distinctions between Jews and non-Jews gets developed in discursive frameworks of temporality, "race thinking," nationalism, and…
My Sons Have Defeated Me
wrote, "Modern man who has ceased to believe, without ceasing to be credulous, hangs, as it were, between heaven and earth, and is at rest nowhere." 1 The secular Lippmann located the source of this feeling of unmooredness in the particulars of modernity, where the religions of the past were no longer credible, but men (and also, although not in an identical way, women) still sought something to believe in. If the acids of modernity-in his famous…
Enlightenment in the Colony
Uncompromising Positions
This edited volume utilizes multidisciplinary approaches to explore the infusion of Mexican American religions in political activism, literature, healing practices, and popular culture.Specifically, this work's application of poly-methodic approaches emphasizes social scientific orientations without marginalizing traditional methodologies such as liberation theology and church studies.As a result of taking a "nonnormative" hermeneutical stance, e…
All in the Family? Jewish Intermarriage in America
Members of the Tribe
My Sons Have Defeated Me
wrote, "Modern man who has ceased to believe, without ceasing to be credulous, hangs, as it were, between heaven and earth, and is at rest nowhere." 1 The secular Lippmann located the source of this feeling of unmooredness in the particulars of modernity, where the religions of the past were no longer credible, but men (and also, although not in an identical way, women) still sought something to believe in. If the acids of modernity-in his famous…
Wild tribes and ancient Semites
Rabbi Henry Cohen of Galveston, Texas, carefully preserved a 1916 pamphlet that claimed a common history for ‘Wild Tribes’ of Indians and Jews of antiquity. Why would a Jewish author tie the customs of ‘uncivilised’ tribes to his own religion, and why might it capture Cohen's attention? This article suggests that the ‘Indian-Israelite’ identification appealed to acculturated Jews like Cohen as part of a wider embrace of a vision of manhood that a…
Jewish identification and critical theory
This symposium examines how various discursive frameworks inform Jewish and non-Jewish interpretations of Jewishness. Although the specific characteristics of these frameworks are context-dependent, the underlying themes remain the same: Jewish identification entails identifying "difference," and this process of drawing distinctions between Jews and non-Jews gets developed in discursive frameworks of temporality, "race thinking," nationalism, and…
The Creation Story, or How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Schempp
Many scholars highlight the 1963 Supreme Court Schempp decision as a major turning point, or even a point of origin for the field of religious studies. This origins narrative rests on two related ideas: first, Schempp provided the legal basis for public universities to have departments of religious studies, and second, Schempp posited a differentiation between teaching religiosity and studying religion. But neither can bear the weight that the Sc…
Lineage Matters
Based on ethnographic and archival research conducted on North American Judaism and Messianic Judaism, this article argues that each group uses DNA in what appear to be sociologically similar ways but that actually differ profoundly at the theological level. Our analysis moves beyond DNA testing per se to focus on what anthropologist Kim Tallbear calls "gene talk," referring to "the idea that essential truths about identity inhere in sequences of…
Why Disability Studies Needs to Take Religion Seriously
Religion and theology are central ways that many people make sense of the world and their own place in that world. But the insights of critical studies of religion, or what is sometimes positioned as religious studies as opposed to theology, are scarce in disability literature. This article suggests some of the costs of this oversight and some of the benefits of including religion. First, this article discusses how some past scholarly engagements…
Religious Freedom
American history is littered with the successes and failures of legal arguments for religious freedom. We see these cases in US courts today, from cake bakers who assert that discrimination on the basis of sexuality is a matter of their own religious exercise to Native Hawaiian claims of protected religious exercise to prevent the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope on the mountain Mauna Kea. Tisa Wenger tells us a longer history, from the…
Race, Religion, and Jewish Sexuality in an Age of Immigration
David S. Koffman. The Jews’ Indian
The Jews’ Indian: Colonialism, Pluralism, and Belonging in America presents a broad look at how Jews in the United States have “[made] use of Indians, both real and imagined” from the nineteenth century to the present (3). It traverses a wide historical swath, from well-established topics such as imagining Native Americans as part of the Ten Lost Tribes and Jewish-Indian encounters on the western frontier to little-known stories about Jewish lawy…
Floating Jews”—The luftmentsh as an Economic Character
The Yiddish word “luftmentsh”, literally “air-person”, refers to petty traders, peddlers, beggars and paupers. The word appeared for the first time in Yiddish literature in the 1860s and began to be used by economists and statisticians in the 1880s-1890s. The case of the luftmentsh is particularly interesting because of the interplay of religion, gender, antisemitism, and economics. This article focuses on the term luftmentsh in economic and stat…
Friends Are the Cream of Life
American Jewish writers Mary Antin and Jessie Sampter met as teenagers in 1899. Throughout the next four decades, they wrote letters and visited each other, discussing literature, politics, and life. Independently, both women achieved some professional success. Antin's autobiography, The Promised Land, launched her to national fame, before she withdrew from public life to focus on religious pursuits. Sampter supported Zionist efforts from the Uni…
The Trouble with Freedom
This response to Julia Watts Belser’s Loving Our Own Bones argues in favor of mutual dependence over freedom. It suggests that freedom in the abstract may not be the goal toward which Belser’s book really pushes us, nor is it the means to the goal. Rather, one might suggest, it actually moves us toward a world where we recognize our mutual interdependence and emphasizes how in important ways (though certainly not all ways) we might be less free
“The Deposed Queen”
When I started to think about how the field of religious studies has changed over the last 50 years, I read through quite a few essays on the state of the field. Religious studies can be an almost obsessively self-reflective field, and it appears I am guilty of this solipsism, too. The Talmudist Saul Lieberman once famously said, “Nonsense is nonsense, but the history of nonsense is scholarship” (Ozick 2002, 143). I hope that, like nonsense, the …
Heathen
Journal Article Heathen: Religion and Race in American History. By Kathryn Gin Lum Get access Heathen: Religion and Race in American History. By Kathryn Gin Lum. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022. 282pp. $35.00. Sarah Imhoff Sarah Imhoff Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Church and State, csad090, https://doi.org/10.1093/jcs…
The impossibility of ethical citation
This piece responds to the articles of Castor, Hovland, Halvorson, and Pérez in this issue. It notes their moments of resonance and disagreement, and it ultimately concludes that the reason why we can have no consistent and thoroughgoing ethics of citation is because it is a practice that is embedded in an academic ecosystem with unequal foundations
The Woman Question in Jewish Studies
A critical look at the difficulties women face in the field of Jewish studies, drawing on quantitative data, personal stories, and the gendered history of the field The field of Jewish studies has expanded significantly in recent years, with increasing numbers of women entering the field. These scholars have brought new perspectives from studies of women, gender, and sexuality. Yet they have also faced institutional and individual obstacles. In t…
Shofar vibrations and braille scrolls
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