Ari Engelberg
Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology and Social Work
Dr. Ari Engelberg earned his PhD from the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Oxford. He has since taught at leading institutions of higher education in Israel and is currently a tenured Senior Lecturer at the Jerusalem Interdisciplinary College. He serves as a board member of RC22 (Research Committee on the Sociology of Religion) of the International Sociological Association.
His research focuses on religion and Israeli society, with particular attention to gender, singleness, and nationalism. He has published in leading peer-reviewed journals on prolonged singleness in Religious Zionism, religious and Haredi marriage guidebooks, postmodern religiosity, and the extreme right-wing Kahanist Lehava organization.
Authored Books
1. Engelberg, Ari. 2020. Prolonged Singlehood Among Religious Zionists: Religiosity and Individualization in Late Modernity. Bar-Ilan University Press: Ramat Gan [Hebrew].
2. Engelberg, Ari. 2023. Singlehood and Religion: The case of Religious Zionist singles. Lexington.
Articles in Refereed Journals
1. Engelberg, Ari. 2024. Transformations in Religious Zionist ‘Lived Religion’ through the Lens of Guidance for Singles. Iyunim Multidisciplinary Studies in Israeli and Modern Jewish Society. DOI https://doi.org/10.51854/bguy-41a175
2. Engelberg, Ari. 2020. Religious and Mizrahi Identities in Lehava and in Its Struggle to Maintain the Honor of the Jewish Family. Social Issues in Israel: 35-64.
3. Engelberg, Ari. 2018. Fighting Intermarriage in the Holy Land: Lehava and Israeli ethnonationalism. Journal of Israeli History and Culture: 1-19. IF 0.2 Q4.
4. Engelberg, Ari. 2016. Update: Singles in Late‐Modern Conservative Religions. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 55(3): 652-655. IF 2.4 Q2.
5. Engelberg, Ari. 2016. Religious Zionist singles: caught between 'family values' and 'young adulthood'. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 55(2):349–364. IF 2.4 Q2
6. Engelberg, Ari. 2015. "Modern Orthodoxy in Post-Secular times: Jewish identities on the boundaries of Religious Zionism". Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 14(1): 126-139. IF 0.2 Q1.
7. Engelberg, Ari. 2013. Israeli Religious Zionist Singles in Late Modern Society. Israeli Studies Review. 28(2): 1-17. IF 0.4
8. Novis-Deutsch, Nurit & Engelberg, Ari. 2012. Meaning Making Under the Sacred Canopy: The Role of Orthodox Jewish Marriage Guidebooks. Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion 8 article 6. [both authors contributed equally].
9. Engelberg, Ari. 2011. Seeking a "Pure Relationship"? Israeli Religious-Zionist singles looking for love and marriage. Religion 41(3): 431-448. IF 1.
10. Engelberg, Ari & Novis-Deutsch, Nurit. 2010. Disenchanting Romantic Love and Re-Enchanting the Family: Jewish Orthodox Marriage Manuals Address the Challenges of 'Western Culture'. Israeli Sociology 12(1): 111-134 [Hebrew] [Both authors contributed equally].
11. Engelberg, Ari. 2009. Love Conquers All? The National-Religious "singles problem". Theory and Criticism. 35: 280-291 [Hebrew].
Book chapter
Engelberg, Ari. 2015. Gender, Dating, and Prolonged Singlehood among Israeli Jews: The Religious Zionist Case, in Love, Marriage, and Jewish Families Today: Paradoxes of a Social Revolution. S. Barack-Fishman (Ed), pp. 55-72. New England: Brandies University Press.
Sociology of religion, Israeli society, Haredi society, Religious Zionism, extreme right-wing movements, Kahanism, family values, singlehood, liberal vs. conservative values
Dr. Nurit Novis-Deutsch
