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Touch and American Religions
Brown, Candy Gunther
The sense of touch plays an important role in many American religious practices. Yet dismissals of touch as an inferior mode of perception and reliance on textual sources that ignore touch have shaped research agendas. This essay identifies theories articulated by philosophical phenomenologists, students of ritual and performance studies, historians and anthropologists of art and architecture, neuroscientists, and feminist scholars that envision touch as a unique mode of gaining knowledge about the world and oneself and stimulating ethical behavior by working directly on the emotions to motivate empathetic, compassionate concern for others. The essay suggests how touch-oriented theories can aid the development of research areas in American religions where scholars have already begun fruitful explorations of tactility: studies of religious embodiment and ritual and of pain and its alleviation through divine healing or Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM).
2010-06-21
2010-06-21
2009
Article
Brown, C. G. (2009). Touch and American Religions. Religion Compass, 3/4, 770-783.
http://hdl.handle.net/2022/8944
en_US
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-8171.2009.00154.x
Wiley-Blackwell
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Chiropractic and Christianity: The Power of Pain to Adjust Cultural Alignments
Brown, Candy Gunther
chiropractic, christianity
2011-12-22
2011-12-22
2010-03
Article
Brown, Candy Gunther. Chiropractic and Christianity: The Power of Pain to Adjust Cultural Alignments. Church History 79:1 (March 2010): 1-38.
http://hdl.handle.net/2022/14013
en_US
Copyright American Society of Church History, 2010
American Society of Church History
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Touch and American Religions
Brown, Candy Gunther
The sense of touch plays an important role in many American religious practices. Yet dismissals of touch as an inferior mode of perception and reliance on textual sources that ignore touch have shaped research agendas. This essay identifies theories articulated by philosophical phenomenologists, students of ritual and performance studies, historians and anthropologists of art and architecture, neuroscientists, and feminist scholars that envision touch as a unique mode of gaining knowledge about the world and oneself and stimulating ethical behavior by working
directly on the emotions to motivate empathetic, compassionate concern for others. The essay
suggests how touch-oriented theories can aid the development of research areas in American
religions where scholars have already begun fruitful explorations of tactility: studies of religious embodiment and ritual and of pain and its alleviation through divine healing or Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM).
2012-01-16
2012-01-16
2009-06-09
Article
Brown, Candy Gunther. Touch and American Religions. Religion Compass 3.4 (July 2009): 770-783.
http://hdl.handle.net/2022/14075
en_US
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1749-8171.2009.00154.x/abstract
Copyright 2009 the Author
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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Study of the therapeutic effects of proximal intercessory prayer (STEPP) on auditory and visual impairments in rural Mozambique
McClymond, Michael J.
Williams, Rebecca
Mory, Stephen C.
Brown, Candy Gunther
audition; complementary and alternative medicine (CAM); intercessory prayer; spirituality; vision
Background. Proximal intercessory prayer (PIP) is a common complementary and alternative
medicine (CAM) therapy, but clinical effects are poorly understood partly because studies have
focused on distant intercessory prayer (DIP).
Methods. This prospective study used an audiometer (Earscan 3) and vision charts (40 cm, 6 m
“Illiterate E”) to evaluate 24 consecutive Mozambican subjects (19 males/5 females) reporting
impaired hearing (14) and/or vision (11) who subsequently received PIP interventions.
Results. We measured significant improvements in auditory (p < 0.003) and visual (p < 0.02)
function across both tested populations.
Conclusions. Rural Mozambican subjects exhibited improved audition and/or visual acuity
subsequent to PIP. The magnitude of measured effects exceeds that reported in previous
suggestion and hypnosis studies. Future study seems warranted to assess whether PIP may be a
useful adjunct to standard medical care for certain patients with auditory and/or visual
impairments, especially in contexts where access to conventional treatment is limited.
2012-01-23
2012-01-23
2010-09
Article
Brown, Candy Gunther PhD; Mory, Stephen C. MD; Williams, Rebecca MB BChir, DTM&H; McClymond, Michael J. PhD. Study of the Therapeutic Effects of Proximal Intercessory Prayer (STEPP) on Auditory and Visual Impairments in Rural Mozambique. Southern Medical Journal: September 2010, Volume 103, Issue 9. pp 864-869
http://hdl.handle.net/2022/14131
en_US
http://journals.lww.com/smajournalonline/Fulltext/2010/09000/Study_of_the_Therapeutic_Effects_of_Proximal.5.aspx
© 2010 Southern Medical Association
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
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Lineage Matters: DNA, Race, and Gene Talk in Judaism and Messianic Judaism
Imhoff, Sarah
race
Messianic Judaism
Judaism
genetics
science
identity
Postprint article
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 DNA.” Contrasting Jews and Messianic Jews, we demonstrate clearly what scholars have only begun to recognize: how theological commitments may drive investments in genetic science and interpretations of it. Further, we show how religiously significant identities associated with race, ethnicity, or lineage interact with DNA science, coming to be viewed as inalienable qualities that reside in the self but move beyond phenotype alone. Finally, we argue that gene talk in these contexts is a religiously inflected practice, which serves to binds communities and (implicitly or explicitly) authorize existing theological ideals.
2018-01-11
2018-01-11
2017
Article
Lineage Matters: DNA, Race, and Gene Talk in Judaism and Messianic Judaism Sarah Imhoff, Hillary Kaell. Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation, Vol. 27 No. 1, Winter 2017; (pp. 95-127) DOI: 10.1525/rac.2017.27.1.95.
http://hdl.handle.net/2022/21870
en
https://doi.org/10.1525/rac.2017.27.1.95
Published as Lineage Matters: DNA, Race, and Gene Talk in Judaism and Messianic Judaism Sarah Imhoff, Hillary Kaell. Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation, Vol. 27 No. 1, Winter 2017; (pp. 95-127) DOI: 10.1525/rac.2017.27.1.95. © 2017 by the Regents of the University of California. Copying and permissions notice: Authorization to copy this content beyond fair use (as specified in Sections 107 and 108 of the U. S. Copyright Law) for internal or personal use, or the internal or personal use of specific clients, is granted by the Regents of the University of California for libraries and other users, provided that they are registered with and pay the specified fee via Rightslink® or directly with the Copyright Clearance Center.
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The Myth of American Jewish Feminization
Imhoff, Sarah
feminization
gender
women
American Judaism
Historians, sociologists, and contemporary critics have used the trope of the “feminization of the synagogue” to describe and critique gendered changes in American Judaism. Yet, given its many usages, the concept has proven too ambiguous and wide-ranging to function as a useful analytical description. This article begins by parsing the multiple uses of the term feminization: Who uses it, and what might they mean? Equipped with this map of the many meanings of the concept, the article then takes the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as a case study. In this period, there is little historical evidence to support the idea that a single, identifiable phenomenon we should call feminization of the synagogue occurred. The persistence of the scholarly trope of feminization of the synagogue, despite the uneven evidence and slipperiness of the term, suggests the need for greater specifi city and clarity in scholarly use.
2018-01-11
2018-01-11
2016
Article
Sarah Imhoff, “The Myth of American Jewish Feminization,” Jewish Social Studies: History, Culture, Society n.s. 21, no. 3 (Spring/Summer 2016): 126–152
http://hdl.handle.net/2022/21871
10.2979/jewisocistud. 21.3.05
en
Jewish Social Studies: History, Culture, Society
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Half-Jewish, Just Jewish, and the Oddities of Religious Identifications
Imhoff, Sarah
Judaism
race
ethnicity
United States
genetics
Postprint article. The Author shall remain the sole owner of the copyright in said article. The author may publish the article in any other journal or medium but such publication must include notice that the article was first published by JRS.
Drawing on recent sociological studies, this article shows the complexity of Jewish identifications in the United States. It discusses five criteria for identifying who is a Jew: halakhah, Reform and Reconstructionist criteria, certain strands of Christian theology, ethnicity or race, and genetics. Then it shows how, when American Jews think about their own Jewishness, they slide among these criteria, notwithstanding the contradictions among them. Studying American Jews, then, shows the ways that religion, ethnicity, race, and genetics are profoundly but often invisibly entangled. It concludes by suggesting that attention to this entanglement will help illuminate not only Jews but many others in the American religious landscape.
2018-01-11
2018-01-11
2016
Article
"Half-Jewish, Just Jewish, and the Oddities of Religious Identifications," Journal of Religion and Society, Supplement 13 (March 2016), pgs. 76-89.
http://hdl.handle.net/2022/21872
en
https://dspace2.creighton.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10504/74602/2016-11.pdf?sequence=1
Journal of Religion and Society
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Book Review of "Jews and the American Soul by Andrew Heinze"
Imhoff, Sarah
Publisher's version
2018-01-18
2018-01-18
2006
Book review
Book Review: "Jews and the American Soul by Andrew Heinze," Journal of Religion 86.2 (Apr 2006), pgs. 344-345.
http://hdl.handle.net/2022/21876
10.1086/504777
en
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/504777
The Journal of Religion
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My Sons Have Defeated Me: Walter Lippmann, Felix Adler, and Secular Moral Authority
Imhoff, Sarah
Publisher's, offprint version
In his 1929 A Preface to Morals, American journalist and political philosopher
Walter Lippmann 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." 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 phrase—had dissolved the worldviews that made religions plausible,
they had not dissolved the human needs that religion had fulfilled.
2018-01-18
2018-01-18
2012
Article
Sarah Imhoff, "My Sons Have Defeated Me: Walter Lippmann, Felix Adler, and Secular Moral Authority," The Journal of Religion 92, no. 4 (October 2012): 536-550.
http://hdl.handle.net/2022/21877
10.1086/666832
en
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/666832
The Journal of Religion
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Book Review of "The Status of Women in Jewish Tradition by Isaac Sassoon
Imhoff, Sarah
Publisher's, offprint version
2018-01-18
2018-01-18
2011
Book review
Book Review: "The Status of Women in Jewish Tradition by Isaac Sassoon" Journal of Religion 91.4 (Oct 2011), pgs. 571-572.
http://hdl.handle.net/2022/21878
10.1086/662402
en
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/662402
Journal of Religion
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Book Review of "The Figural Jew by Sarah Hammerschlag"
Imhoff, Sarah
Publisher's, offprint version
Who is a Jew? In recent years, the question has arisen in discussions about
Israeli citizenship and the "right of return," British schools, and even kosher
food in American prisons. These recent battles over who can legitimately call
herself a Jew have been fought on the grounds of halakhah, religious observance,
ethnicity, and bloodlines.
2018-02-01
2018-02-01
2012
Book review
Sarah Imhoff. Book Review: "The Figural Jew by Sarah Hammerschlag," Journal of Religion 92.2 (April 2012), pgs. 308-310.
http://hdl.handle.net/2022/21888
10.1086/665294
en
https://doi.org/10.1086/665294
Journal of Religion
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Book Review of "Urban Origins of American Judaism by Deborah Dash Moore"
Imhoff, Sarah
Publisher's, offprint version
Trends in the study of history have seen a recent turn toward urban history, both as a feature of particular geographical and ethnic fields, and also as a field of its own. Urban historians pay particular attention to things like the relationship of the built environment to people and the multiple layers of the social construction of space. Urban history has its own historiography and set of canonical theorists, such as Lewis Mumford, Henri Lefebvre, Peter Hall, and Saskia Sassen. Urban Origins of American Judaism occasionally flirts with this literature, but it never joins the crowd. Rather, it situates itself much more inside the bounds of the field of American Jewish history than the field of urban history.
2018-02-01
2018-02-01
2017
Book review
Sarah Imhoff. Book Review of "The Urban Origins of American Judaism by Deborah Dash Moore," History of Religions 56.3 (February 2017), pgs. 352-354.
http://hdl.handle.net/2022/21890
10.1086/689404
en
https://doi.org/10.1086/689404
History of Religions
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The Man in Black: Matisyahu, Identity, and Authenticity
Imhoff, Sarah
Critics and fans have already written much about the life, music, and performance of Matisyahu, the most prominent Hasidic reggae musician, and his visibility is still growing.
2018-02-01
2018-02-01
2010
Article
Sarah Imhoff. “The Man in Black: Matisyahu, Identity, and Authenticity,” Religion and Culture Web Forum. University of Chicago, (Feb 2010).
http://hdl.handle.net/2022/21891
en
https://divinity.uchicago.edu/sites/default/files/imce/pdfs/webforum/022010/Matisyahupaginated.pdf
Author retains full copyright.
Religion and Culture Web Forum
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Book Review of "Women Remaking American Judaism by Riv Ellen Prell"
Imhoff, Sarah
2018-02-01
2018-02-01
2009
Book review
Sarah Imhoff. Book Review: "Women Remaking American Judaism by Riv Ellen Prell," Practical Matters (Fall 2009).
http://hdl.handle.net/2022/21893
en
http://practicalmattersjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Prell-Women-Remaking-American-Judaism_Prell_Imhoff-JS-Finalized-7-2-09.pdf
Practical Matters
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Book Review of "Jewish/Christian/Queer: Crossroads and Identities, edited by Frederick Roden"
Imhoff, Sarah
Publisher's, offprint version
“The power of ‘queer’ is its breadth,” writes editor Frederick Roden in his introduction to Jewish/Christian/Queer. The volume takes advantage of—and pushes the boundaries—of that wide vastness of possibility for the signifier “queer.” Although the disparity of historical and disciplinary approaches of the essays sometimes threatens to pull the collection apart at the seams, its threads never quite break. And in the end, the risk of pulling apart is worth the reward of a better garment. Few scholars will be familiar with all of the material here: it ranges from a textual analysis of Pauline scripture to a psychoanalytic reading of Freud’s relationship to Rome to an architectural and theological argument for the queerness of Queen Anne Churches, to name a few. A queer group indeed. The radical diversity of material, however, undeniably demonstrates the versatility of queer theories. Ultimately, therein lies the lasting argument of the volume: Queer theory can and should touch religious studies scholarship across discipline and material. Jewish/Christian/Queer becomes Joseph’s coat: Jewish, Christian, contested, beautiful, and queer.
2018-06-08
2018-06-08
2010
Book review
Book Review: "Jewish/Christian/Queer: Crossroads and Identities, Frederick Roden, ed" Gender Forum Issue 28 (2010), pgs 50-52.
http://hdl.handle.net/2022/22190
en
http://genderforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/201028_Complete.pdf
Gender Forum
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Book Review of "Gender, Memory, and Judaism edited by Judit Gaszi, Andrea Peto, and Zsuzsanna Toronyi"
Imhoff, Sarah
Publisher's, offprint version.
Although research on Jewish women in Europe has grown quickly in the last two decades, both theoretical and geographical lacunae remain. Apart from the recent memoir collection Hungarian Jewish Women Remember the Holocaust, Hungary remains one of these geographic gaps in English-language scholarship. The road to such scholarship has proven a difficult one for several reasons. First because of an academic stumbling block: according to editor Andrea Peto, “gender studies are unknown in Hungary” (43). Second has been a reticence of non-Jewish feminists to engage seriously with committed Jewish women. Furthermore, since 1989 major religious institutions, both Jewish and Christian, have emerged from Hungary’s Communist years with traditionally minded rather than forward-looking attitudes toward women and gender roles. Despite these academic and political challenges, in 2006 a group of academics and activists organized a conference to consider the lives of Jewish women in historical perspective. The conference provided the genesis for the edited volume under review, entitled Gender, Memory, and Judaism, a text which both addresses and at times is subject to the aforementioned scholarly limitations.
2018-06-08
2018-06-08
2009
Book review
Book Review: "Gender, Memory, and Judaism, Judit Gaszi, Andrea Peto, and Zsuzsanna Toronyi, eds" Gender Forum Issue 26 (2009), pgs 115-117.
http://hdl.handle.net/2022/22191
en
http://genderforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/200926_Complete.pdf
Gender Forum
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Hoover's Judeo-Christians: Jews, Judaism, and Communism in the Cold War
Imhoff, Sarah
Publisher's, offprint version
The FBI's approach to Jews and Judaism during the Hoover era was shaped not only by a suspicion of Jews as potential communists bur also by the image of America as a land of equality and religious tolerance. In the years after World War II, the link between Jews, Judaism, and communism was fraught. On the one hand, being Jewish was prima facie evidence that one may be communist; on the other hand, Judaism played an essential role in the concept of a religious America.
2018-06-14
2018-06-14
2017
Book chapter
“Hoover's Judeo-Christians: Jews, Judaism, and Communism in the Cold War.” The FBI and Religion: Faith and National Security before and after 9/11, eds. Sylvester A. Johnson and Steven Weitzman (University of California Press, 2017)
9780520287280
http://hdl.handle.net/2022/22198
en
https://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520287280
University of California Press