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Jewish Spirituality as Social Theory and Practice - Philip Wexler
Philip Wexler (born 1943) is Professor Emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was first appointed in 2002 as Professor of Sociology of Education and then Unterberg Chair in Jewish Social and Educational History. Since retirement, he has been Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences at the Bergische University of Wuppertal, Germany.
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Biography
Wexler received a bachelor's degree from New York University and master's and doctoral degrees in sociology from Princeton University.
Wexler was William Scandling Professor of Sociology and Education at the University of Rochester. He then moved to Jerusalem where he did field research on newly religious youth, and studied Jewish mystical texts in Hebrew and Yiddish. While on leave from the Hebrew University, he served as Bronfman Professor at Brandeis University.
Academic work
Wexler is the author of a number of books in the fields of sociology of religion and sociology of education. He was Editor of the American Sociological Association journal, Sociology of Education. During 2008-2009, together with Jonathan Garb, he convened a year- long working group at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Jerusalem, on “Sociology and Anthropology of Jewish Mysticism in Comparative Perspective.” . The working group meetings and conferences produced a book, “After Spirituality: Studies in Comparative Mysticism,”