Krawcowicz Barbara
ORCID ID : 0000-0001-9328-7554
Biography
I'm a graduate of Warsaw University (Ph.D., Philosophy, 2006) and Indiana University Bloomington (Ph.D., Religious Studies and Jewish Studies, 2013).
Most of my work centers on modern and contemporary Judaism and is shaped by the question how Jews reinvent their religious ideas, identities, and ritual practices in response to events or processes that put into question the current form of Judaism and hence demand its refashioning. I am interested in those moments in the history of Jewish religious thought and practice when communities and individuals confront what they perceive as crises or challenges (e.g. modernity, political emancipation, secularization, feminism, political entanglements, encounters with other religions, etc.). I study such moments of tension and creativity using historical discourse analysis.
While my primary area of expertise is Judaism, I firmly believe that the study of this tradition should not be divorced from the larger questions relevant for the study of religion and society. Following Jonathan Z. Smith and Jacob Neusner, I believe that various aspects of Judaism - or any other social formation we call "religion" - should not be studied as subjects important in themselves but rather as exempli gratia of broader, theoretical, questions often asked in our field.
Most of my work centers on modern and contemporary Judaism and is shaped by the question how Jews reinvent their religious ideas, identities, and ritual practices in response to events or processes that put into question the current form of Judaism and hence demand its refashioning. I am interested in those moments in the history of Jewish religious thought and practice when communities and individuals confront what they perceive as crises or challenges (e.g. modernity, political emancipation, secularization, feminism, political entanglements, encounters with other religions, etc.). I study such moments of tension and creativity using historical discourse analysis.
While my primary area of expertise is Judaism, I firmly believe that the study of this tradition should not be divorced from the larger questions relevant for the study of religion and society. Following Jonathan Z. Smith and Jacob Neusner, I believe that various aspects of Judaism - or any other social formation we call "religion" - should not be studied as subjects important in themselves but rather as exempli gratia of broader, theoretical, questions often asked in our field.
