Marianna Ruah-Midbar is head of the bachelor’s degree Program of Mysticism 
and Spirituality Studies (being established) at Zefat Academic College. She is also a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Haifa and a lecturer at Tel Aviv University. Ruah-Midbar is studying varieties of contemporary alternative spirituality: New Age culture, its interaction with Judaism and Israeliness, and Internet spirituality. Ruah-Midbar’s dissertation (2006) was about “The New Age Culture in Israel” and contained a methodological introduction and a model of “the conceptual network.” She has been publishing articles about the encounter of Jewish-Israeli culture with the New Age. In addition to her academic activity, Marianna writes curricula and trains Jewish Studies teachers, and is a facilitator of alternative Jewish lifecycle rituals and events. Ruah-Midbar maintains a blog in Hebrew that can be found here.
About
The URI to TrackBack this entry is: http://ruahmidbare.wordpress.com/trackback/
