רחל ורצברגר

• אנתרופולוגיה וסוציולוגיה של הדת
• רוחניות עכשווית ותרבות העידן החדש
• תנועות דתיות חדשות/כתות
• התחדשות יהודית עכשווית ויהדות ישראלית
• רוחניות יהודית וניאוליברליזם
• דתיות נחווית בישראל
• דת חומרית

• שיתוף פעולה עם ד"ר דנה קפלן, המחלקה לסוציולוגיה מדע המדינה ותקשורת, האוניברסיטה הפתוחה: 1. היבטים מעמדיים ביהדות העידן החדש בישראל 2. תנועת היהדות הישראלית
• שיתוף פעולה עם ד"ר שלמה גוזמן כרמלי, המחלקה לסוציולוגיה ואנתרופולוגיה, אוניברסיטת בר אילן: יהדות של יום יום בישראל: חוויות  דתיות ורוחניות בחברה משתנה (פרוייקט מחקר במימון הקרן הישראלית למדעים, מענק מחקר אישי 1352/20)
• שיתוף פעולה עם פרופ' בועז הוס, המחלקה לפילוסופיה יהודית, אוניברסיטת בן גוריון בנגב: תנועות דתיות חדשות בישראל
•  שיתוף פעולה עם פרופ' רות אילמן, מנהלת מכון דונר לחקר הדת והתרבות, אבו אקדמי, פינלנד : דתיות נחווית – הבטים אתנוגרפיים והשוואתיים.
• שיתוף פעולה עם פרופ' גריט קלינקהמר מאוניברסיטת ברהמן בגרמניה : עבודה הזיכרון של קבוצות של התחדשות דתית: מבט השוואתי
• שיתוף פעולה עם פרופ' דניאל מונטרסקו מהCEU והאקדמית תל-אביב יפו: התחדשות יהדות במבט טרנס-לאומי

Book and edited volumes 

Werczberger, Rachel. Jews in the Age of Authenticity: Jewish Spiritual Renewal in Israel. 178 p. 2016. Peter Lang. https://www.peterlang.com/view/product/29658?format=EPDF

Nissim, Gadi, Shokeid Moshe, Rubin Nissan, Leon Nissim, Werczberger Rachel and Deshen Ezri.(eds.). 2024. The wisdom of Shlomo: Anthropological perspectives on the transformation in Israeli culture. Resling publishing. [Hebrew]

Rachel Werczberger and Daniel Monterescu (eds.) 2022. Jewish Revival(s) inside out: The remaking of Jewishness in a transnational age. Wayne State University Press 

Articles in scientific journals

Werczberger Rachel, Kaplan Dana and Nadia Beider. 2025. "From Jewish Renewal to Israeli Judaism: An analysis of emergent soft Religious Nationalism." Archives de sciences sociales des religions. 210-211, avril-septembre, 159-179. https://doi.org/10.4000/15a1x

Werczberger, Rachel. 2025. "Therapeutic Literacies: Text, Body, and Emotion in the Jewish Spiritual Renewal." Religions 16, no. 9: 1110. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel16091110

Sari Alfi Nisan, Shlomo Guzmen Carmeli and Rachel Werczberger. 2025. “The Light within Me": Celebrating the Self through Jewish Holidays in Israeli Public School Education." Journal of Contemporary Religion. 1-19. DOI: 10.1080/13537903.2025.2520059

Tammar Friedman, Shlomo Guzmen-Carmeli & Rachel Werczberger. 2024. "Faithful atheists: the paradox of Jewish nonbelievers in Israel." Religion, 4 November. DOI: 10.1080/0048721X.2024.2423715

Werczberger Rachel and Monterscu Daniel. 2024. "Rebranding God: The Jewish Revival Movement Between Homeland and Diaspora." Religions. 15: 1255. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel15101255

Werczberger, Rachel. 2023 “New Age Judaism.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Jewish Studies. Ed. Naomi Seidman. New York: Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780199840731-0230

Werczberger Rachel. 2023. "Jewish Spirituality on both sides of the ocean: The adaptation of North American Jewish spirituality in Israel." Iyunim. Special Issue: American Judaism in Israel, 66-83. [in Hebrew].

Werczberger, Rachel. 2023. Beyond the Synagogue: Jewish Nostalgia as Religious Practice, by RACHEL B. GROSS. Sociology of religion. ‏ Online first https://doi.org/10.1093/socrel/srad056

Ofira Fuchs, Rachel Werczberger and Shlomo Guzmen Carmeli. 2023. “Not Being Counted”: Women's Place and Religious Space in Jewish Orthodox Communities during the COVID-19 Crisis." The Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 63(1). 181-193. https://doi.org/10.1111/jssr.12885

Werczberger, Rachel. 2023. Secularize, Psychologize, Neoliberalize: The entangled Jewish Self of North American Jews. Ethos: Journal of the society of psychological anthropology.1-16 DOI: 10.1111/etho.12397

Werczberger Rachel. 2022. "Searching for Jewish Spirituality: The identity-narratives of New Age Jews in Israel." Journal of Modern Judaism. https://doi.org/10.1080/14725886.2022.2142772

Werczberger Rachel. 2020. “Deep secrets and spiritual tools: The concept of the secret in contemporary forms of Jewish Spirituality”. Mahshevet 2. 488-503 [in Hebrew]

Werczberger Rachel. 2020. “The making of Jewish authenticity: The hybrid discourse of authenticity of New Age Judaism and the complexities of religious individualization.”. Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses. Vol 5(1) pp. 50-66. https://doi.org/10.1177/0008429820911592

Werczberger Rachel and Dana Kaplan. 2020. “Authenticity, cosmopolitanism and spiritual consumption: A new age for the new middle class in Israel” Megamot 55 [in Hebrew]

Werczberger Rachel and Dana Kaplan. 2019 “Spiritual openness as class distinction: New Age Judaism in Israel in a post-secular age.” Israeli Sociology 20(1):74-98 [in Hebrew]

Werczberger Rachel. 2018. Review on I have never called my wife: Domestic relation in Gur Hasidism by Nava Vaserman. Sde Boker: The Ben Gurion Research Institute-Ben Gurion University. Israeli Sociology 19(2) 246-248. [in Hebrew]

Kaplan, Dana and Werczberger, Rachel. 2017. "Jewish New Age and the Middle Class: Jewish Identity Politics in Israel under Neoliberalism". Sociology, 51(3), 575-591. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038515595953

Werczberger, Rachel and Huss, Boaz. 2014. "New Age Culture in Israel: Social, Ideological and Political Aspects; Guest Editor Introduction". Israel Studies Review 29(2):1-16. DOI: 10.3167/isr.2014.290202

Werczberger, Rachel .2014. "The Identity Narrative of Jewish Spiritual Renewal Proponents of Jewish Spiritual Renewal in Israel."  Iyunim Betkumat Israel, Thematic series 7:555-579. [in Hebrew]

Werczberger, Rachel. 2011. "Memory, Land and Identity: Visions of the Past and the Land in the Jewish Spiritual Renewal Movement in Israel". Journal of Contemporary Religion, 26(2): 269-289. https://doi.org/10.1080/13537903.2011.573342

Werczberger, Rachel and Azulay, Na'ama. 2011. "The Jewish Renewal Movement in Israeli Secular Society. Contemporary Jewry, 31(2): 107-128. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12397-011-9063-x

Werczberger, Rachel and Azulay, Na'ama. 2008. "Jewish Renewal in the Israel Secular Sphere: from a Phenomenon to a New Social Movement. Politika 18: 141-172. [in Hebrew].  

Chapters in Edited Volumes

Werczberger, Rachel. 2024. Symbolic Jewish activity. in Nissim, Gadi, Shokeid Moshe, Rubin Nissan, Leon Nissim, Werczberger Rachel and Deshen Ezri.(eds.) The wisdom of Shlomo: Anthropological perspectives on the transformation in Israeli culture. Resling publishing, pp. 99-104.

Werczberger, Rachel. 2022. "Healing the self, renewing the tradition: The hybrid discourse of authenticity of New Age Judaism in Israel." in Daniel Monterescu and Werczberger Rachel (eds.) Jewish Revival(s) inside out: The remaking of Jewishness in a transnational age. Wayne State University Press, pp. 203-220.

Werczberger, Rachel and Monterescu Daniel. 2022. "Introduction: Riding the Jewish Renaissance – Survival, Revival and Renewal" in Daniel Monterescu and Werczberger Rachel (eds.) Jewish Revival(s) inside out: The remaking of Jewishness in a transnational age. Wayne State University Press, pp.1-20.

Werczberger, Rachel. 2021 “Not only in the brain but also from the body”: Text and learning in New Age Judaism” in Rubin, Nisan and Guzmen-Carmeli, Shlomo (eds.). The Power of Words: Anthropological Studies in Jewish Textuality. Haifa: Carmel Press [Hebrew].

Werczberger, Rachel and Guzman-Carmeli, Shlomo. 2020. “Judaism: rituals and practices”.  In Andrew Newberg, David Yaden and Yukun Zhao (eds.) Rituals and Practices in World Religions: A Cross-Cultural Classification. Springer Academic Press, pp. 113-126

Werczberger, Rachel. 2019. “Jewish Spirituality in Israel as lived religion: A new perspective for the study of contemporary Jewish life” in Wexler Philip (ed.) Jewish spirituality and society. New York: Crossroad publishing, pp. 245-264.

Werczberger Rachel. 2016. “A sacred time in a sacred land: Authenticating the past in New Age Judaism”. Lewis James and Ferraro Shai (eds.) Contemporary Alternative Spirituality in Israel. New York, NY: Palgrave Mcmillan. pp. 3-19

Werczberger, Rachel. 2016. "Secularization and Sacralization, Identity and Belonging: The New Age and Jewish Spiritual Renewal" in Yochi Fisher (ed.) Secularity and Secularization in a Post-Secular Age: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Jerusalem: Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. pp.288-313 [Hebrew]

Werczberger, Rachel. 2013."Spirituality, Charisma and Gender in a Jewish Spiritual Renewal Community in Israel". Anna Fedele and Kim Knibbe (eds.) Spirituality against Religion: The Role of Gender and Power. London and New York: Routledge, pp.135-151. 

Werczberger, Rachel. 2011. "Dynamic Belongings of Younger Jews and the Transformation of the Jewish Self" in Goldberg, Harvey E., Cohen, Steven M. and Kopelowitz, Ezra (eds.) Dynamic Belonging: Jewish Collective Identities in Israel and the United States. New York: Berghahn. Pp. 165-170 

Werczberger, Rachel. 2011. "Self, Identity and Healing in the Ritual of Jewish Spiritual Renewal in Israel" in Huss, Boaz (ed.). Kabbalah and Contemporary Spiritual Revival. Be'er Sheva:  Ben-Gurion University Press. Pp. 75-100.

Cohen, Eric. H. & Werczberger, Rachel. 2009. "Jewish normativity: an explorative study". in D. Elizur & E. Yaniv (eds.) Theory Construction and Multivariate Analysis: Applications of Facet Approach, FTA Publications, 35-48.

Werczberger, Rachel. 2007. Items on “Tova Sanhadrai” and “Shoshana Arbeli Almoslino” in Hyman Paula E. & Ofer Dalia (eds.) Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical E-Encyclopedia. Shalvi & Co Publishing.

Werczberger, Rachel. 2006 “On Femininity and Messianism: Women New Returnee to Orthodox Judaism (Ba’alot Tshuva) in Lubbavitcher Hasidut”. In Cohen T. (ed.) To be a Jewish Women: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference of Kolech-Religious Women’s Forum,173-184. [Hebrew]