Χρήστης:Antoanneta Potsi/πρόχειρο
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Αυτή η σελίδα είναι το κύριο «πρόχειρο χρήστη» του Antoanneta Potsi. Ένα «πρόχειρο χρήστη» είναι υποσελίδα της προσωπικής σελίδας του χρήστη στη Βικιπαίδεια. Εξυπηρετεί ως χώρος πειραματισμών και ανάπτυξης σελίδων και δεν είναι εγκυκλοπαιδικό λήμμα. Επεξεργαστείτε ή δημιουργήστε το δικό σας πρόχειρο εδώ ή κάνετε δοκιμές στο κοινόχρηστο Πρόχειρο Βικιπαίδειας. |
Philip Wexler is Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences at the Bergische University, Wuppertal, Germany. He recently became Emeritus Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he was first appointed in 2002, as Professor of Sociology of Education and then, Unterberg Chair in Jewish Social and Educational History. Before his move to Jerusalem -where he did field research on newly religious youth, and studied Jewish mystical texts in Hebrew and Yiddish- he was William Scandling Professor of Sociology and Education at the University of Rochester. While on leave from the Hebrew University, he served as Bronfman Professor at Brandeis University.
Wexler is the author of a number of books, in the fields of sociology of religion and sociology of education. He is on the editorial boards of many international professional journals and 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 the theme of “Sociology and Anthropology of Jewish Mysticism in Comparative Perspective.” Fellows in this working group represented an international constituency of scholars in religion, working in different religious traditions. The working group meetings and conferences produced a book, “After Spirituality: Studies in Comparative Mysticism,” which was the first in a series , the most recent publication of which is Moshe Idel´s study of one of the founding scholars of comparative religious studies, Mircea Eliade.
His current work continues and expands the field first set out in “Holy Sparks,” and carried through “Mystical Society,” and most recently, “ Mystical Sociology: Toward a Cosmic Sociology,” which aims to establish the relevance of religion as a cultural resource for contemporary social analysis, taking the interactional concepts of Hasidism as a model for current social problems of “excess,” and the limits of contemporary sociological theory. At the same time, he continues to develop the paradigms of sociology of education, and their relation to religion, in the changing context of a resacralizing society. This work is represented in the recent special issue of the international journal, Critical Studies in Education ( Australia) on “ Education in a Post Secular Society, “ co-edited with Yotam Hotam. In Germany, he organized and chaired ( with Heinz Sunker) the recent international conference on “ Critical Theory and Education in a Post Secular World,” and is the co-editor , w ith Yotam Hotam, of ( in press) of “ Education in Post Secular Society.”