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Susan Starr Sered

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Bachelors Anthropology Brandeis University

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According to Wikipedia, Susan Starr Sered is Professor of Sociology at Suffolk University and Senior Researcher at Suffolk University's Center for Women's Health and Human Rights. Previously, she was the director of the "Religion, Health and Healing Initiative" at the Harvard University Center for the Study of World Religions, and a Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. Her interests include both research and advocacy/activism.

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Susan Starr Sered's Published Works

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Published Works

Lived Religion: Faith and Practice In Everyday Life (2010) (114)
Women As Ritual Experts: The Religious Lives of Elderly Jewish Women in Jerusalem (1992) (92)
Priestess, mother, sacred sister : religions dominated by women (1995) (81)
Religion and healing in America (2004) (76)
Uninsured in America: Life and Death in the Land of Opportunity (2005) (57)
What Makes Women Sick?: Maternity, Modesty, and Militarism in Israeli Society (2000) (55)
The Sacred in the Profane (1996) (43)
Food and Holiness : Cooking as a Sacred Act among Middle-Eastern Jewish Women (1988) (42)
Holistic sickening: breast cancer and the discursive worlds of complementary and alternative practitioners. (2008) (38)
Women of the Sacred Groves: Divine Priestesses of Okinawa (2000) (34)
Women and Religious Change in Israel: Rebellion or Revolution (1997) (33)
"You are a number, not a human being": Israeli breast cancer patients' experiences with the medical establishment. (1999) (27)
Disrupted Lives, Fragmented Care: Illness Experiences of Criminalized Women (2008) (27)
Criminalized Women and the Health Care System (2013) (24)
The Domestication of Religion: The Spiritual Guardianship of Elderly Jewish Women (1988) (21)
Priestess, Mother, Sacred Sister: Religions Dominated by Women (1996) (17)
Pregnant dreaming: search for a typology of a proposed dream genre. (1992) (15)
Women, Religion, and Modernization: Tradition and Transformation among Elderly Jews in Israel (1990) (15)
Women of the Wall: Claiming Sacred Ground at Judaism's Holy Site (review) (2004) (14)
Priestess, Mother, Sacred Sister (1994) (14)
Whose Higher Power? Criminalized Women Confront the “Twelve Steps” (2011) (12)
Lessons for women's health from the Massachusetts reform: affordability, transitions, and choice. (2011) (12)
Religious Rituals and Secular Rituals: Interpenetrating Models of Childbirth in a Modern, Israeli Context (1993) (11)
Rachel, Mary, and Fatima (1991) (11)
Leisure participation and satisfaction in two European communities (1987) (10)
The Religion of Relating: Kinship and Spirituality among Middle Eastern Jewish Women in Jerusalem (1989) (10)
Conflict, Complement, and Control: (1991) (9)
Afterword: Lexicons of the supernatural (2003) (9)
Healing as Resistance: Reflections upon New Forms of American Jewish Healing (2004) (8)
Rachel's tomb: Societal liminality and the revitalization of a shrine (1989) (8)
IDEOLOGY, AUTONOMY, AND SISTERHOOD (1994) (7)
Religiously Doing Gender: the Good Woman and the Bad Woman in Israeli Ritual Discourse (2001) (7)
Women on the Institutional Circuit: A 9-Year Qualitative Study (2019) (6)
Gender overdetermination and resistance: The case of criminalised women (2011) (6)
Husbands, Wives, and Childbirth Rituals (1994) (5)
Women Pilgrims and Woman Saints: Gendered Icons and the Iconization of Gender at Israeli Shrines (1999) (5)
Roundtable On Feminist Ideology And Religious Diversity, Part 5: Feminist Theology, Religiously Diverse Neighborhood Or Christian Ghetto? (2000) (5)
Diminished citizenship in the era of mass incarceration (2020) (5)
The opioid crisis and the infrastructure of social capital. (2019) (5)
Taxonomies of Ritual Mixing* (2007) (5)
Triple jeopardy: Women’s employment struggles postincarceration (2019) (4)
Symbolic illnesses, Real Handprints, and Other Bodily Marks: Autobiographies of Okinawan Priestesses and Shamans (1997) (4)
Rachel's Tomb: The Development of a Cult (2016) (3)
WOMEN AND REIKI: ENERGETIC/HOLISTIC HEALING IN PRACTICE by Judith Macpherson (2009) (3)
Introduction: objects, gender, and religion (2007) (3)
Criminalized Women and Twelve Step Programs: Addressing Violations of the Law With a Spiritual Cure (2012) (3)
Introduction: Mothers and Icons (2016) (2)
CHILDBIRTH AS A RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE (2016) (2)
De-gendering religious leadership : Sociological discourse in an Okinawan village (1998) (2)
The liberation of widowhood (1987) (2)
Suffering in an Age of Personal Responsibility (2014) (2)
Beyond Recidivism and Desistance (2020) (2)
Institutional Captives: US Women Trapped in the Medical/Correctional/Welfare Circuit (2018) (1)
Towards a Gendered Typology of Sacrifice: Women & Feasting, Men & Death in an Okinawan Village (2002) (1)
Priestess, Mother, Sacred Sister: Religions Dominated by Women, by Susan Starr Sered. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994, 330 pp. $40.95 (1996) (1)
Prologue: Negotiating women's roles and power: The practice of world religions in contemporary Asia (2007) (1)
Book review: Reuben Jonathan Miller, Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration (2021) (1)
Uninsured In Texas, Then And Now. (2016) (1)
Leaders and Experts (1996) (1)
Rituals and Relationships (1996) (1)
Gender, Immanence, and Transcendence: The Candle-Lighting Repertoire of Middle-Eastern Jews (1991) (1)
Sick Out of Luck: The Uninsured in America (2005) (1)
[Accessibility of information and informed consent: experiences of breast cancer patients]. (1998) (1)
The Domestication of Religion (2018) (1)
Teaching Healing Rituals/Ritual Healing (2007) (0)
Julie G. Cwikel, Social Epidemiology: Strategies for Public Health Activism (2007) (0)
Esther Schely-Newman. Our Lives are but Stories: Narratives of Tunisian-Israeli Women. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 2002. 232 pp. (2004) (0)
Summoning the Spirits (1996) (0)
Uninsured in America: Before and After the ACA (2017) (0)
Anthropology of Religion Section: Gender Transformations and Religion (2001) (0)
Purity (review) (2004) (0)
The Social Contexts of Women's Religions: Gender Disjunction, Matrifocality, and a Critique of Deprivation Theory (1996) (0)
Women and Indigenous Religions (2011) (0)
Misfortune, Suffering, and Healing (1996) (0)
No Father in Heaven Androgyny and Polydeism (1996) (0)
The way we were: reading the past in the present (2000) (0)
Ministers of the Mind: Protestant Pastoral Counseling in Mid-Twentieth-Century America (2009) (0)
Cooking up religion: women, culture and culinary power (2021) (0)
Health Disparities in the United States: Social Class, Race, Ethnicity, and Health (2009) (0)
Holistic Sickening: What Causes Breast Cancer? Complementary and Alternative Practitioners Speak (2008) (0)
Life Support: Invitation to Prayer by Judith Cohen Margolis (review) (2020) (0)
Conversations with Rabbanit Zohara: An Exploration of Gender and Religious (1995) (0)
Book Review:Women in New Religions: In Search of Community, Sexuality, and Spiritual Power Elizabeth Puttick (1999) (0)
Embodying Culture: Pregnancy in Japan and Israel (review) (2011) (0)
The Religious World of Jewish Women in Kurdistan (1996) (0)
Maternity and Meaning (1996) (0)
Social Epidemiology: Strategies for Public Health Activism (review) (2008) (0)
Chapter 3. Religious Roles of Elderly Women (2019) (0)
Book reviews (2010) (0)
Anat Zuria, Director Purity 2002. 63 minutes. www.wmm.com. (2004) (0)
Health care: the critical importance of relationships. (2003) (0)
Unrequited Engagement: Misadventures in Advocating for Medicaid Expansion (2018) (0)
Book Review: Addicted to Rehab: Race, Gender, and Drugs in the Era of Mass Incarceration by Allison McKim (2017) (0)
Spiritual Gifts and Secular Benefits (1996) (0)
When Children Die (1996) (0)
Kasstan, Ben: Making Bodies Kosher. The Politics of Reproduction among Haredi Jews in England (2021) (0)
Books received (2016) (0)
Nurit Stadler. Yeshiva Fundamentalism: Piety, Gender, and Resistance in the Ultra-Orthodox World . New York: New York University Press, 2009. xviii, 197 pp. (2010) (0)
Ritual Expertise in the Modern World (2017) (0)
Women, Sacred Texts, and Religious Organization (1996) (0)

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