Janet L. Jacobs
American sociologist
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Janet L. Jacobs's Degrees
- PhD Sociology University of California, Berkeley
- Masters Sociology University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors Sociology University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, For the American former baseball player, see Janet Jacobs. Janet Liebman Jacobs is an American sociologist specializing in gender and religion. Jacobs' research focuses on women, religion, ethnicity, genocide and the social psychology of gender. She has authored seven books, including Hidden Heritage: The Legacy of the Crypto-Jews, for which she won the Distinguished Book Award from the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Memorializing the Holocaust: Gender, Genocide and Collective Memory, and The Holocaust Across Generations: Trauma and its Inheritance Among Descendants of Survivors, for which she won the 2017 Outstanding Book Award from the American Sociological Association.
Janet L. Jacobs's Published Works
Published Works
- Woman and Power in the Middle East (2001) (118)
- Cults, Converts, and Charisma (1989) (55)
- The Economy of Love in Religious Commitment: The Deconversion of Women from Nontraditional Religious Movements (1984) (51)
- Reassessing Mother Blame in Incest (1990) (46)
- Deconversion from Religious Movements: An Analysis of Charismatic Bonding and Spiritual Commitment (1987) (46)
- From the Profane to the Sacred: Ritual and Mourning at Sites of Terror and Violence (2004) (45)
- Women, ritual and secrecy : The creation of crypto-jewish culture (1996) (37)
- Gender and collective memory: Women and representation at Auschwitz (2008) (36)
- Divine disenchantment: Deconverting from new religions (1989) (33)
- “We’ll Figure a Way”: Teenage Mothers’ Experiences in Shifting Social and Economic Contexts (2012) (31)
- Memorializing the Holocaust: Gender, Genocide and Collective Memory (2010) (31)
- The Effects of Ritual Healing on Female Victims of Abuse: A Study of Empowerment and Transformation (1989) (30)
- Hidden Heritage: The Legacy of the Crypto-Jews (2003) (30)
- The Spiritual Self‐In‐Relation: Empathy and the Construction of Spirituality Among Modern Descendants of theSpanish Crypto‐Jews (2000) (29)
- Gender and power in new religious movements: A feminist discourse on the scientific study of religion☆ (1991) (28)
- Women, Genocide, and Memory (2004) (27)
- Victimized Daughters: Incest and the Development of the Female Self (1994) (24)
- Religion, Society, And Psychoanalysis: Readings In Contemporary Theory (1997) (24)
- The Cherokees and Christianity, 1794-1870: Essays on Acculturation and Cultural Persistence (1994) (18)
- Victimized Daughters: Sexual Violence and the Empathic Female Self (1993) (18)
- “I'll Be There for You”: Teen Parents' Coparenting Relationships. (2015) (18)
- The Struggle for Life; A Companion to William James's "The Varieties of Religious Experience" (1996) (16)
- The Cross-Generational Transmission of Trauma: Ritual and Emotion among Survivors of the Holocaust (2011) (16)
- The memorial at Srebrenica: Gender and the social meanings of collective memory in Bosnia-Herzegovina (2017) (14)
- Early Motherhood and the Disruption in Significant Attachments (2012) (14)
- Defenders of the faith : inside ultra-Orthodox Jewry (1995) (13)
- 2010 Paul Hanly Furfey LectureSacred Space and Collective Memory: Memorializing Genocide at Sites of Terror (2011) (9)
- Sites of Terror and the Role of Memory in Shaping Identity Among First Generation Descendants of the Holocaust (2014) (8)
- Hidden Truths and Cultures of Secrecy: Reflections on Gender and Ethnicity in the Study of Religion (2000) (7)
- Separation and Loss among African American and Latina Teen Mothers (2012) (7)
- Memorializing the Sacred: Kristallnacht in German National Memory (2008) (6)
- Women, Ritual, and Power (1990) (6)
- Abuse in New Religious Movements: Challenges for the Sociology of Religion (2007) (5)
- Gendered Representations of Apartheid: The Women’s Jail Museum at Constitution Hill (2017) (5)
- The Holocaust Across Generations: Trauma and its Inheritance Among Descendants of Survivors (2017) (3)
- Woman and Power in the Middle East, by Suad Joseph and Susan Slyomovics (eds.) Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001, 237 pp. $42.50(cloth), $19.95 (paper) (2003) (2)
- Traumatic Inheritance and the Demasculinization of God: Reimagining the Divine among Descendants of the Holocaust (2015) (2)
- A Christian Client Considers Carl Rogers (1975) (2)
- Conversa Heritage, Crypto-Jewish Practice and Women's Rituals (2012) (1)
- Psychobiography and the Psychology of Religion: A Tribute to the Work of Donald Capps (2018) (1)
- The Female Body as Atrocity Text: The Feminization of the Holocaust at Auschwitz (2006) (1)
- New Religious Movements, Mass Suicide, and People's Temple (1990) (1)
- 2. Women and the Persistence of Culture: Ritual, Custom, and the Recovery of Sephardic Ancestry (2019) (0)
- Anti-cult Movements in Cross Cultural Perspective, edited by Anson Shupe and David C. Bromley. New York: Garland, 1994, 274 pp. $43.00 (1996) (0)
- Sites of Terror and the Role of Memory in Shaping Identity Among First Generation Descendants of the Holocaust (2014) (0)
- Survivorship in the Aftermath of Genocide (2017) (0)
- Sociology and Liturgy: Re-presentations of the Holy.Kieran Flanagan (1993) (0)
- Book Review (1978) (0)
- 5. Conversion and the Rekindling of the Jewish Soul (2019) (0)
- A Private Practice That Balances Work and Family: Minneapolis Speech-Language Pathology Practice Honored by Working Mother Magazine (2008) (0)
- 1. Secrecy, Antisemitism, and the Dangers of Jewishness (2019) (0)
- Seen But Not Heard: Jewish Women in Therapy (Book) (1993) (0)
- Introduction. Crypto-Jewish Descent: An Ethnographic Study in Historical Perspective (2019) (0)
- Engendering a Difficult Past: Motherhood and Memory among Child Survivors of the Genocide in Bosnia–Herzegovina (2019) (0)
- Book Reviews (1995) (0)
- 6. Jewish Ancestry and the Social Construction of Ethnic Identity (2019) (0)
- The Plainsong of the Double Dream of Spring: John Ashbery, Olivier Messiaen, and Rituals of the Sacred (2004) (0)
- Conclusion. Ethnic Loss and the Future of Crypto- Jewish Culture (2019) (0)
- 4. Syncretism and Faith Blending in Modern Crypto-Judaism (2019) (0)
- BEYOND ANNE FRANK: HIDDEN CHILDREN AND POSTWAR FAMILIES IN HOLLAND. By Diane L. Wolf (2007) (0)
- Freud as Other (2018) (0)
- 3. The Self-in-Relation and the Transformation of Religious Consciousness (2019) (0)
- NEW ETHNOGRAPHIES (1993) (0)
- “We’ll Figure a Way”: Teenage Mothers’ Experiences in Shifting Social and Economic Contexts (2011) (0)
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