Faculty of Social Sciences
Celia E. Rothenberg, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Religious Studies and Department of Health, Aging, and Society
McMaster University
Contact Information
UH125 and KTH 206A
Phone (905) 525-9140 ext. 24363 rothenb@mcmaster.ca
Books

2004 Spirits of Palestine: Gender, Society, and Stories of the Jinn. New York: Lexington Press, A division of The Rowman and Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc.  148 pp.

2002 (paperback), 2001 (hardback). Currie, Gail and Celia Rothenberg, editors. Feminist (Re)Visions of the Subject: Landscapes, Ethnoscapes, and Theoryscapes. New York: Lexington Press, A division of The Rowman and Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. 288 pp. 

Book chapters

2006 “’My Wife is from the Jinn’: Palestinian Village Men, Diaspora, and Love.” In Islamic Masculinities. L. Ouzgane, editor. Pp. 89-104. London: Zed Press.

2006  “Ghada: Village Rebel and Political Protestor.” In Struggle and Survival in the Modern Middle East. Second Edition. E. Burke and D. Yaghoubian, eds. Pp. 319-338. Berkeley: University of California Press. Invited.

2002, 2001 “Embodied Spirits: Palestinians and the Experience of Possession.” In Feminist (Re)Visions of the Subject: Landscapes, Ethnoscapes, and Theoryscapes. G. Currie and C. Rothenberg, eds. Pp. 145-58. New York: Lexington Press, A division of The Rowman and Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. 

1999 “Who Are We For Them? On Doing Research in the Palestinian West Bank.” In Feminist Fields: Ethnographic Insights. R. Bridgman, S. Cole, and H. Howard-Bobiwash, eds. Pp. 137-156. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press.

1998 “Palestinian Village Women and Their Stories of Spirit Possession.” In Engendering Communication: Proceedings of the Fifth Berkeley Women and Language Conference . S. Wertheim, A. Bailey, and M. Corston-Oliver, eds. Pp. 487-496. Berkeley: University of California.

Journal articles  

2006 Jewish Yoga: Experiencing Flexible, Sacred, and Jewish Bodies. Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions 10(2): 59-76.

2006 Hebrew Healing: Jewish Authenticity and Religious Healing in Canada. Journal of Contemporary Religion 21(2): 163-182.

2000 Gibb, Camilla and Celia Rothenberg. Believing Women: Harari and Palestinian Women at Home and in the Canadian Diaspora. Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs 20(2): 243-259.

2000 Ties that Bind: Gulf Palestinians in Toronto. Communal/Plural: A Journal of Transnational Studies 8(2): 237-255.

1999  Proximity and Distance: Palestinian Women’s Social Lives in Diaspora. Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies 8(1): 23-50.

1999 Diversity and Community: Palestinian Women in Toronto. Canadian Woman Studies/les cahiers de la femme 19(3): 75-79.

1999 Understanding Ghada: The Multiple Meanings of an Attempted Stabbing. Middle East Report (MERIP)   210: 10-12.

1998-99 A Review of the Anthropological Literature in English on the Palestinian Hamula and the Status of Women. The Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies II: 24-48.        

Encyclopedia entries

2005 “Friendship: Arab States.” In Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, Volume Two. S. Joseph, ed. pp. 189-91.  Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers. (Invited contribution)

2004 “Modesty and Sexual Restraint.” In Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender: Men and Women in the World’s Cultures. C. Ember and M. Ember, eds. pp. 187-91. New York: Kluwer Academic Plenum Publishers. (Invited contribution)

Book reviews

2006 Review of Among the Healers. Edith Turner. Choice (June).  Invited.

2006  Review of Palestinians Born in Exile: Diaspora and the Search for a Homeland. Juliane Hammer. Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 24 (3): 194-96.  Invited.

2004 Review of Guardians of the Transcendant: An Ethnography of a Jain Ascetic Community. Anne Vallely. Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology On-Line Book Reviews, http://www.csaa.ca/BookReview/ReviewsList.htm Invited.

2000  Review of Patriarchy and Purdah: Structural and Systemic Violence Against Women in Bangladesh. Habiba Zaman. Anthropologica XLII (1): 104. Invited.

1994 Review of Structures of Patriarchy: The State, the Community, and the Household . Bina Agarwal, editor. The Middle East and South Asia Folklore Bulletin 11 (3): 6-7.

 
   
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