Textual healing: tailor-made kabbalistic therapeutics in Jerusalem

Guzmen-Carmeli, Shlomo; Sharabi, Asaf

doi:10.1080/13648470.2017.1361653

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“…Individuals may also turn to religious figures for either direct support from religious leaders or indirect support through their connection to something greater (Becerra and Greenblatt 1981 ; Guzmen‐Carmeli and Sharabi 2019 ; Keshet and Liberman 2014 ; Krause et al. 2001 ; Krysinska and Corveleyn 2013 ; Maman et al.…”

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Individuals’ Use of Religion in Response to the COVID‐19 Pandemic as Complementary to Their Use of Medically Recommended Responses

Corcoran

Scheitle

DiGregorio

2022

Scientific Study of Religion

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Many individuals have engaged in behaviors to cope with and mitigate the COVID‐19 pandemic, including mask wearing and physical distancing. This study considers the extent to which individuals have also engaged in religious behaviors in response to the pandemic and how those responses are associated with behaviors like mask wearing. Using data from a probability survey of U.S. adults, our analysis finds that over half of the respondents have engaged in pandemic‐related prayer and about one‐fifth have taken other religious steps in response to the pandemic, such as reading religious texts or carrying religious items for protection. All else being equal, Republicans are significantly less likely to have undertaken religious steps in response to the pandemic relative to Democrats, suggesting that the politicized nature of the pandemic influences religious responses as well. The analysis also finds that religious responses to the pandemic—especially prayer—are positively associated with mask wearing and physical distancing. These findings suggest that religious responses to the pandemic are not inherently opposed to undertaking responses recommended by scientific and medical authorities.

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Section: Religious Responses To Negative Circumstancesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Individuals’ Use of Religion in Response to the COVID‐19 Pandemic as Complementary to Their Use of Medically Recommended Responses

Corcoran

Scheitle

DiGregorio

2022

Scientific Study of Religion

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A Permissible Sin: Perceptions of Smoking Among Haredi Men in Israel

Guzmen-Carmeli,

Weizman,

Friedman

2024

J Relig Health

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This essay deals with perceptions of smoking among Haredi men in Israel. Though trends in smoking within the Haredi society have been quantitively examined, no qualitative research has ever focused on the motivations and mindsets stimulating individuals’ choices to take health risks despite religious precepts to the contrary. Israeli Haredi men sometimes start smoking in their early childhood and are unmotivated to quit, and such circumstances should be examined. We interviewed 20 Israeli Haredi male smokers and overviewed the Haredi daily press and rabbinical attitudes toward smoking. Our findings indicate that Haredi men typically consider smoking as either permissible or, at worst, a minor sin. From childhood they view smoking as an expression of maturity, and moreover one which is associated with Jewish holidays and particular religious practices. Such perception relies on the Haredi establishment's normative exclusion of smoking from the Halachic commandments that aim to protect health. Finally, we illustrate key points to consider in paths leading to an intervention process to change these norms and practices.

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Texts as Places, Texts as Mirrors: Anthropology of Judaisms and Jewish Textuality

Guzmen-Carmeli

2020

Cont Jewry

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Textual healing: tailor-made kabbalistic therapeutics in Jerusalem

Cited by 6 publications

References 22 publications

Individuals’ Use of Religion in Response to the COVID‐19 Pandemic as Complementary to Their Use of Medically Recommended Responses

Individuals’ Use of Religion in Response to the COVID‐19 Pandemic as Complementary to Their Use of Medically Recommended Responses

A Permissible Sin: Perceptions of Smoking Among Haredi Men in Israel

Texts as Places, Texts as Mirrors: Anthropology of Judaisms and Jewish Textuality

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