Faculty and Staff - Psychology

Rachel Werczberger is a sociologist and anthropologist of religion specialising in the study of contemporary Judaism, New Age spiritualities and New Religious movements. She received her PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and was a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Jewish philosophy in Ben Gurion University in the Negev and in the Katz Centre for Advance Jewish studied at UPenn. Her book Jews in the age of authenticity: Jewish spiritual renewal, published in 2016 by Peter Lang, is an ethnography of two Jewish New Age communities that were active in Israel in the beginning of the 20th century. In addition, she published numerous paper and articles in academic journals and edited volumes in Hebrew and English.