Publications
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Ruah-Midbar, Marianna. The New Age Culture in Israel: A Methodological Introduction and the ‘Conceptual Network’ (Doctoral Dissertation, two volumes). Bar-Ilan University: Ramat Gan, 2006.
Ruah-Midbar, Marianna, “The Myth of David and the Abyss [Thehom]”, in Nefesh [Soul] – A Quarterly for Psychology, Emotional Nurturing and Creative Education 7 (May 2001): 11-18. [Hebrew]
Ruah-Midbar, Marianna, “‘Back to Paradise’ in New Age Thought: Images of an Ideal Past in the History of the Jewish People”, in Dancing in a Fallow Land: The New Age in Israel, edited by Iddo Tavory. Tel Aviv: HaKibbutz HaMeuchad (Red Line), 2007. pp. 28–59. [Hebrew]
Ruah-Midbar, Marianna, “The Attitude towards Ugly People in Israeli Culture in Light of its Sources – Early Rabbinic Literature versus European Folktales”, in Thought, Art and Literature in Judaism as Culture (Interdisciplinary Studies in Judaism as a Culture, edited by Ezer Cahanov. Tel Aviv: Yaron Golan (Achva Academic College and Judaism as Culture Library), 2007. pp. 113-152. [Hebrew]
Ruah-Midbar, Marianna, Ariel Aviv, and Zila Miron-Ilan. “The One Whom my Soul Loveth” – Love and Relationship in Jewish Thought. Ma’alot and the Ministry of Education: Jerusalem, 2007. [Hebrew]
Ruah-Midbar, Marianna, Ariel Aviv, and Inbal Yagar. “The One Whom my Soul Loveth” – Love and Relationship in Jewish Thought: A Teachers’ Guide. The Ministry of Education: Jerusalem, 2007. [Hebrew]
Oron Klin Adam, and Marianna Ruah-Midbar, “Secular by the Letter, Religious by the Spirit: The Attitudes of the Israeli New Age to Jewish Law”, in Israeli Sociology 12.1 (2010): 57-81. [Hebrew]
Ruah-Midbar, Marianna, and Klin Oron, Adam, “Jew Age: Jewish Praxis in Israeli New Age Discourse”, in Journal of Alternative Spiritualities and New Age Studies 5 (2010): 33-63.
Mayseless, Ofra, and Marianna Ruah-Midbar, “Spirituality and Mothering”, in O’Reilly, Andrea. (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Motherhood. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, 2010. pp. 1154-1156.
Ruah-Midbar, Marianna, “Current Jewish Spiritualities in Israel: A New Age”, in Modern Judaism – A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience 32.1 (February 2012): 102-124.
Ruah Midbar, Omri, and Marianna Ruah-Midbar, “The Dynamics of a Cultural Struggle in Academia: The Case of New Age Music Research”, in Cultural Analysis – An Interdisciplinary Forum on Folklore and Popular Culture 11 (2013): 67-90.
Ruah-Midbar, Marianna, and Nurit Zaidman, “’Everything Starts Within’ – New Age Values, Images, and Language in Israeli Mainstream Advertisements”, in Journal of Contemporary Religion 28.3 (2013): 421-436.
Naor, Lia, Marianna Ruah-Midbar, and Moshe Zeidner, “Positive Peak Experiences as Formative Events in a Person’s Life”, in Iyunim BeHinuch [Studies in Education] 7-8 (November 2013): 61-73. [Hebrew]
Ruah-Midbar, Marianna, and Adam Klin Oron, “’Tell me Who your Enemies are’ – Israeli Government Reports on NRMs”, in Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 52.4 (2013): 810–826.
Ruah-Midbar, Marianna, “A Channeler, a Healer, and a Shaman Meet at the Rabbi’s: The Roadmap of Israeli Judaism(s) in the New Age”, in Iyunim: Multidisciplinary Studies in Israeli and Modern Jewish Society (Thematic series) 7 (Special issue, edited by Gideon Katz, Shalom Ratzabi, Yaacov Yadgar: Beyond Halacha: Secularism, Traditionalism and ’New Age’ Culture in Israel). Sde Boker: Ben-Gurion Institute for the study of Israel and Zionism, 2014. pp. 498-528. [Hebrew]
Ruah-Midbar, Marianna (2014). “The Sacralization of Randomness – The Theological Imagination and the Logic of Computerized Divination Rituals”, in Numen – International Review for the History of Religions 61.5-6 (2014): 619-655.
Ruah-Midbar, Marianna, “Thank God for India – A Look at Jewish Israelis in Light of the Easternization of the West Thesis”, in Theory and Criticism 44 (Summer 2015 – Special issue: “India / Israel”): 311-325. [Hebrew]
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, Hili Ratzon, and Rachel Werczberger, “New Religious Movements in Israel: Neo-Shamanism”, in MEIDA – Israeli Center for Contemporary Religions (2016): 0-14. Available at: https://meida-center.org.il/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/שמאניזם-סופי.pdf. [Hebrew]
Ruah-Midbar, Marianna, “Kabbalah – Modern Judaism – New Age Judaism”, in Helmer, Christine, Steven Linn McKenzie, Thomas Chr. Römer, Jens Schröter, Barry Dov Walfish, and Eric Ziolkowski. (Eds.) Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception. Vol. 14. De Gruyter: Berlin and Boston, 2017. pp. 1182-1184.
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, and Ruah Midbar, Omri, “Outdoing Authenticity: Three Postmodern Models of Adapting Folklore Materials in Current Spiritual Music”, in Journal of Folklore Research – An International Journal of Folklore and Musicology 54.3 (Sep.-Nov. 2017): 199-231.
Moore, Lila, and Marianna Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, “Humanity’s Second Chance: Darren Aronofsky’s Noah (2014) as an Environmental Cinematic Midrash”, in Journal of Religion and Film 22.2 (April 2018): Article 35.
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, “Abracadabra! Postmodern Therapeutic Methods: Language as a Neo-Magical Tool”, in Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies 17.49 (Spring 2018): 3-17.
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, and Sharon Warshawski, “Trance, Meditation and Brainwashing – The Israeli Use of Hypnosis Law and the New Religious Movements Scene”, in The Journal of CESNUR 2.4 (July-August 2018): 61-96.
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, “’It’s a Game Everybody’s Already Playing’ – Versions of the ‘Creating-Our-Reality’ Motif in the Discourse of Alternative Spiritualities”, in Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies 17.51 (Winter 2018): 115-133.
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, “Lilith’s Comeback from a Feministic Jungian Outlook: Contemporary Feminist Spirituality Gets into Bed with Lilith”, in Feminist Theology 27.2 (January 2019): 149-163.
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, “Historians as Storytellers: A Critical Examination of New-Age Religion’s Scholarly Historiography”, in Alternative Spirituality and Religion Review 10.1 (March 2019): 1-24.
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, “The Temptation of Legitimacy – Lilith’s Adoption and Adaption in Contemporary Feminist Spirituality”, in Modern Judaism – A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience 39.2 (May 2019): 125-143.
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, and Lila Moore, “‘Not Your Grandmother’s Bible’ – A Comparative Study of the Biblical Deluge Myth in Film”, in Religions 10.10 (2019), 542 [17 pages].
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, and Adi Sasson, “’The Most Powerful Portal in Zion’ – Kursi: The Spiritual Site that Became an Intersection of Ley-lines and Multicultural Discourses”, The Pomegranate – The International Journal of Pagan Studies 21.1 (2019): 100-127.
Klin-Oron, Adam, and Marianna Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, “State of Israel vs. the Cults: The Anti-Cult Discourse and the Israeli Public Discourse in Government Reports”, in Israel studies in Language and Society 12.2 (2019; special issue on “Authoritative groups [cults] in contemporary Israeli society”): 126-144. [Hebrew]
Ruah Midbar, Omri, and Marianna Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, “The Doors of Creativity Shall Never be Barred: The Iconization Process of Rabbi Shalom Shabazi’s Piyyut ‘Im Nin’Alu’ in Contemporary Pop Music – From a Mystical-Yemenite Piyyut to a Mizrachi-Spiritual Symbol”, in Tema – Journal of Judeo-Yemenite Studies 16 (2019/5780): 263-298. [Hebrew]
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, and Tal Elohev, “The Hippie Colony of Old Rosh-Pina – The Appropriation and Design of Buildings and Scenic Elements for the Creation of a Spiritual-Alternative Milieu”, in Horizons in Geography 97 (2019): 107-135. [Hebrew]
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, “The ‘Enchanted Benches’ at Kursi National Park – A Case Study of the Formation of Alternative Sacred Geography”, in Horizons in Geography 97 (2019): 136-163. [Hebrew]
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, and Lila Moore, “Three Religious-Cultural Worldviews in Noah (2014) – Hedonism, Fundamentalism, and Ecofeminism”, in The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture 32.2 (2020): 144-158.
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, “Witch-Hunt or Women’s Oppression? The Secularization and Re-Enchantment of the Witches of Ashkelon Tale by Contemporary Spiritualities’ Leaders”, in Journal of Jewish Studies 72.1 (Spring 2021): 164-190.
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, “Judaism is the New Orient – How Experiencing the Far-East Helps Israelis Find Meaning in their Jewish Tradition”, in Mayseless, Ofra and Pninit Russo-Netzer (Editors). The Search for Meaning in the Israeli Cultural Scene. Oxford University Press, 2021. ch. 15; pp. 333-354.
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, “The Witch Hunt in Ashkelon as Retold by Contemporary Spiritualities: From Embarrassment to Treasure Trove”, in Hazan, Haim, Shar’abi, Rachel, and Inbal Esther Sikurel (Editors). Between the Times – Text and Ritual in a Changing Society. Carmel: 2021. pp. 381-406. [Hebrew]
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, and Elijahu Eshed, “Canaanites and Neopagans in Canaan: A Comparison between Two Israeli Movements over the past Century”, Reshit – Studies in Judaism 6 (2022): 25-56. [Hebrew]
Mayseless, Ofra, Marianna Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Rice, Aya, and Liat Zucker, “Jewish Forms of Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapy”, in Richards, P. Scott G. E., Allen, Kawika, and Daniel K. Judd (Editors.) Handbook of Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapies. APA Books (2023), Ch. 14, pp. 268-283.
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, “Dabhar [thing] Dibbur [speech] Midbar [desert] – From Pre-Modernism to Post-Modernism in Contemporary Mysticism”, in Bar-Levav, Avriel, Halbertal, Moshe, and Ron Margolin (Editors). Jubilee Book in Honor of Prof. Moshe Idel [Temporary Title]. Idra Press (forthcoming, 2023). [Hebrew]
Ruah-Midbar, Marianna. The New Age Culture in Israel: A Methodological Introduction and the ‘Conceptual Network’ (Doctoral Dissertation, two volumes). Bar-Ilan University: Ramat Gan, 2006.
Ruah-Midbar, Marianna, “The Myth of David and the Abyss [Thehom]”, in Nefesh [Soul] – A Quarterly for Psychology, Emotional Nurturing and Creative Education 7 (May 2001): 11-18. [Hebrew]
Ruah-Midbar, Marianna, “‘Back to Paradise’ in New Age Thought: Images of an Ideal Past in the History of the Jewish People”, in Dancing in a Fallow Land: The New Age in Israel, edited by Iddo Tavory. Tel Aviv: HaKibbutz HaMeuchad (Red Line), 2007. pp. 28–59. [Hebrew]
Ruah-Midbar, Marianna, “The Attitude towards Ugly People in Israeli Culture in Light of its Sources – Early Rabbinic Literature versus European Folktales”, in Thought, Art and Literature in Judaism as Culture (Interdisciplinary Studies in Judaism as a Culture, edited by Ezer Cahanov. Tel Aviv: Yaron Golan (Achva Academic College and Judaism as Culture Library), 2007. pp. 113-152. [Hebrew]
Ruah-Midbar, Marianna, Ariel Aviv, and Zila Miron-Ilan. “The One Whom my Soul Loveth” – Love and Relationship in Jewish Thought. Ma’alot and the Ministry of Education: Jerusalem, 2007. [Hebrew]
Ruah-Midbar, Marianna, Ariel Aviv, and Inbal Yagar. “The One Whom my Soul Loveth” – Love and Relationship in Jewish Thought: A Teachers’ Guide. The Ministry of Education: Jerusalem, 2007. [Hebrew]
Oron Klin Adam, and Marianna Ruah-Midbar, “Secular by the Letter, Religious by the Spirit: The Attitudes of the Israeli New Age to Jewish Law”, in Israeli Sociology 12.1 (2010): 57-81. [Hebrew]
Ruah-Midbar, Marianna, and Klin Oron, Adam, “Jew Age: Jewish Praxis in Israeli New Age Discourse”, in Journal of Alternative Spiritualities and New Age Studies 5 (2010): 33-63.
Mayseless, Ofra, and Marianna Ruah-Midbar, “Spirituality and Mothering”, in O’Reilly, Andrea. (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Motherhood. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, 2010. pp. 1154-1156.
Ruah-Midbar, Marianna, “Current Jewish Spiritualities in Israel: A New Age”, in Modern Judaism – A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience 32.1 (February 2012): 102-124.
Ruah Midbar, Omri, and Marianna Ruah-Midbar, “The Dynamics of a Cultural Struggle in Academia: The Case of New Age Music Research”, in Cultural Analysis – An Interdisciplinary Forum on Folklore and Popular Culture 11 (2013): 67-90.
Ruah-Midbar, Marianna, and Nurit Zaidman, “’Everything Starts Within’ – New Age Values, Images, and Language in Israeli Mainstream Advertisements”, in Journal of Contemporary Religion 28.3 (2013): 421-436.
Naor, Lia, Marianna Ruah-Midbar, and Moshe Zeidner, “Positive Peak Experiences as Formative Events in a Person’s Life”, in Iyunim BeHinuch [Studies in Education] 7-8 (November 2013): 61-73. [Hebrew]
Ruah-Midbar, Marianna, and Adam Klin Oron, “’Tell me Who your Enemies are’ – Israeli Government Reports on NRMs”, in Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 52.4 (2013): 810–826.
Ruah-Midbar, Marianna, “A Channeler, a Healer, and a Shaman Meet at the Rabbi’s: The Roadmap of Israeli Judaism(s) in the New Age”, in Iyunim: Multidisciplinary Studies in Israeli and Modern Jewish Society (Thematic series) 7 (Special issue, edited by Gideon Katz, Shalom Ratzabi, Yaacov Yadgar: Beyond Halacha: Secularism, Traditionalism and ’New Age’ Culture in Israel). Sde Boker: Ben-Gurion Institute for the study of Israel and Zionism, 2014. pp. 498-528. [Hebrew]
Ruah-Midbar, Marianna (2014). “The Sacralization of Randomness – The Theological Imagination and the Logic of Computerized Divination Rituals”, in Numen – International Review for the History of Religions 61.5-6 (2014): 619-655.
Ruah-Midbar, Marianna, “Thank God for India – A Look at Jewish Israelis in Light of the Easternization of the West Thesis”, in Theory and Criticism 44 (Summer 2015 – Special issue: “India / Israel”): 311-325. [Hebrew]
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, Hili Ratzon, and Rachel Werczberger, “New Religious Movements in Israel: Neo-Shamanism”, in MEIDA – Israeli Center for Contemporary Religions (2016): 0-14. Available at: https://meida-center.org.il/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/שמאניזם-סופי.pdf. [Hebrew]
Ruah-Midbar, Marianna, “Kabbalah – Modern Judaism – New Age Judaism”, in Helmer, Christine, Steven Linn McKenzie, Thomas Chr. Römer, Jens Schröter, Barry Dov Walfish, and Eric Ziolkowski. (Eds.) Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception. Vol. 14. De Gruyter: Berlin and Boston, 2017. pp. 1182-1184.
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, and Ruah Midbar, Omri, “Outdoing Authenticity: Three Postmodern Models of Adapting Folklore Materials in Current Spiritual Music”, in Journal of Folklore Research – An International Journal of Folklore and Musicology 54.3 (Sep.-Nov. 2017): 199-231.
Moore, Lila, and Marianna Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, “Humanity’s Second Chance: Darren Aronofsky’s Noah (2014) as an Environmental Cinematic Midrash”, in Journal of Religion and Film 22.2 (April 2018): Article 35.
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, “Abracadabra! Postmodern Therapeutic Methods: Language as a Neo-Magical Tool”, in Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies 17.49 (Spring 2018): 3-17.
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, and Sharon Warshawski, “Trance, Meditation and Brainwashing – The Israeli Use of Hypnosis Law and the New Religious Movements Scene”, in The Journal of CESNUR 2.4 (July-August 2018): 61-96.
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, “’It’s a Game Everybody’s Already Playing’ – Versions of the ‘Creating-Our-Reality’ Motif in the Discourse of Alternative Spiritualities”, in Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies 17.51 (Winter 2018): 115-133.
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, “Lilith’s Comeback from a Feministic Jungian Outlook: Contemporary Feminist Spirituality Gets into Bed with Lilith”, in Feminist Theology 27.2 (January 2019): 149-163.
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, “Historians as Storytellers: A Critical Examination of New-Age Religion’s Scholarly Historiography”, in Alternative Spirituality and Religion Review 10.1 (March 2019): 1-24.
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, “The Temptation of Legitimacy – Lilith’s Adoption and Adaption in Contemporary Feminist Spirituality”, in Modern Judaism – A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience 39.2 (May 2019): 125-143.
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, and Lila Moore, “‘Not Your Grandmother’s Bible’ – A Comparative Study of the Biblical Deluge Myth in Film”, in Religions 10.10 (2019), 542 [17 pages].
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, and Adi Sasson, “’The Most Powerful Portal in Zion’ – Kursi: The Spiritual Site that Became an Intersection of Ley-lines and Multicultural Discourses”, The Pomegranate – The International Journal of Pagan Studies 21.1 (2019): 100-127.
Klin-Oron, Adam, and Marianna Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, “State of Israel vs. the Cults: The Anti-Cult Discourse and the Israeli Public Discourse in Government Reports”, in Israel studies in Language and Society 12.2 (2019; special issue on “Authoritative groups [cults] in contemporary Israeli society”): 126-144. [Hebrew]
Ruah Midbar, Omri, and Marianna Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, “The Doors of Creativity Shall Never be Barred: The Iconization Process of Rabbi Shalom Shabazi’s Piyyut ‘Im Nin’Alu’ in Contemporary Pop Music – From a Mystical-Yemenite Piyyut to a Mizrachi-Spiritual Symbol”, in Tema – Journal of Judeo-Yemenite Studies 16 (2019/5780): 263-298. [Hebrew]
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, and Tal Elohev, “The Hippie Colony of Old Rosh-Pina – The Appropriation and Design of Buildings and Scenic Elements for the Creation of a Spiritual-Alternative Milieu”, in Horizons in Geography 97 (2019): 107-135. [Hebrew]
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, “The ‘Enchanted Benches’ at Kursi National Park – A Case Study of the Formation of Alternative Sacred Geography”, in Horizons in Geography 97 (2019): 136-163. [Hebrew]
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, and Lila Moore, “Three Religious-Cultural Worldviews in Noah (2014) – Hedonism, Fundamentalism, and Ecofeminism”, in The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture 32.2 (2020): 144-158.
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, “Witch-Hunt or Women’s Oppression? The Secularization and Re-Enchantment of the Witches of Ashkelon Tale by Contemporary Spiritualities’ Leaders”, in Journal of Jewish Studies 72.1 (Spring 2021): 164-190.
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, “Judaism is the New Orient – How Experiencing the Far-East Helps Israelis Find Meaning in their Jewish Tradition”, in Mayseless, Ofra and Pninit Russo-Netzer (Editors). The Search for Meaning in the Israeli Cultural Scene. Oxford University Press, 2021. ch. 15; pp. 333-354.
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, “The Witch Hunt in Ashkelon as Retold by Contemporary Spiritualities: From Embarrassment to Treasure Trove”, in Hazan, Haim, Shar’abi, Rachel, and Inbal Esther Sikurel (Editors). Between the Times – Text and Ritual in a Changing Society. Carmel: 2021. pp. 381-406. [Hebrew]
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, and Elijahu Eshed, “Canaanites and Neopagans in Canaan: A Comparison between Two Israeli Movements over the past Century”, Reshit – Studies in Judaism 6 (2022): 25-56. [Hebrew]
Mayseless, Ofra, Marianna Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Rice, Aya, and Liat Zucker, “Jewish Forms of Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapy”, in Richards, P. Scott G. E., Allen, Kawika, and Daniel K. Judd (Editors.) Handbook of Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapies. APA Books (2023), Ch. 14, pp. 268-283.
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, and Tal Elohev, “The Sixties Did (Not-Altogether) Skip Israel – Rosh-Pinna’s Hippie Community”, in National Resilience, Politics and Society 5. 1-2 (2023): 57-92.
Mayseless, Ofra, and Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, “Veiling and Unveiling: Caution in Explicitly Integrating Jewish Spirituality in Psychotherapy in Israel” in Spirituality in Clinical Practice (forthcoming)
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, “Dabhar [thing] Dibbur [speech] Midbar [desert] – From Pre-Modernism to Post-Modernism in Contemporary Mysticism”, in Bar-Levav, Avriel, Halbertal, Moshe, and Ron Margolin (Editors). Jubilee Book in Honor of Prof. Moshe Idel [Temporary Title]. Idra Press (forthcoming, 2023). [Hebrew]
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Ruah-Midbar, Marianna. The New Age Culture in Israel: A Methodological Introduction and the ‘Conceptual Network’ (Doctoral Dissertation, two volumes). Bar-Ilan University: Ramat Gan, 2006.
Ruah-Midbar, Marianna, “The Myth of David and the Abyss [Thehom]”, in Nefesh [Soul] – A Quarterly for Psychology, Emotional Nurturing and Creative Education 7 (May 2001): 11-18. [Hebrew]
Ruah-Midbar, Marianna, and Klin Oron, Adam, “Jew Age: Jewish Praxis in Israeli New Age Discourse”, in Journal of Alternative Spiritualities and New Age Studies 5 (2010): 33-63.
Mayseless, Ofra, and Marianna Ruah-Midbar, “Spirituality and Mothering”, in O’Reilly, Andrea. (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Motherhood. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, 2010. pp. 1154-1156.
Ruah-Midbar, Marianna, “Current Jewish Spiritualities in Israel: A New Age”, in Modern Judaism – A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience 32.1 (February 2012): 102-124.
Ruah Midbar, Omri, and Marianna Ruah-Midbar, “The Dynamics of a Cultural Struggle in Academia: The Case of New Age Music Research”, in Cultural Analysis – An Interdisciplinary Forum on Folklore and Popular Culture 11 (2013): 67-90.
Ruah-Midbar, Marianna, and Nurit Zaidman, “’Everything Starts Within’ – New Age Values, Images, and Language in Israeli Mainstream Advertisements”, in Journal of Contemporary Religion 28.3 (2013): 421-436.
Ruah-Midbar, Marianna, and Adam Klin Oron, “’Tell me Who your Enemies are’ – Israeli Government Reports on NRMs”, in Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 52.4 (2013): 810–826.
Ruah-Midbar, Marianna (2014). “The Sacralization of Randomness – The Theological Imagination and the Logic of Computerized Divination Rituals”, in Numen – International Review for the History of Religions 61.5-6 (2014): 619-655.
Ruah-Midbar, Marianna, “Kabbalah – Modern Judaism – New Age Judaism”, in Helmer, Christine, Steven Linn McKenzie, Thomas Chr. Römer, Jens Schröter, Barry Dov Walfish, and Eric Ziolkowski. (Eds.) Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception. Vol. 14. De Gruyter: Berlin and Boston, 2017. pp. 1182-1184.
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, and Ruah Midbar, Omri, “Outdoing Authenticity: Three Postmodern Models of Adapting Folklore Materials in Current Spiritual Music”, in Journal of Folklore Research – An International Journal of Folklore and Musicology 54.3 (Sep.-Nov. 2017): 199-231.
Moore, Lila, and Marianna Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, “Humanity’s Second Chance: Darren Aronofsky’s Noah (2014) as an Environmental Cinematic Midrash”, in Journal of Religion and Film 22.2 (April 2018): Article 35.
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, “Abracadabra! Postmodern Therapeutic Methods: Language as a Neo-Magical Tool”, in Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies 17.49 (Spring 2018): 3-17.
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, and Sharon Warshawski, “Trance, Meditation and Brainwashing – The Israeli Use of Hypnosis Law and the New Religious Movements Scene”, in The Journal of CESNUR 2.4 (July-August 2018): 61-96.
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, “’It’s a Game Everybody’s Already Playing’ – Versions of the ‘Creating-Our-Reality’ Motif in the Discourse of Alternative Spiritualities”, in Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies 17.51 (Winter 2018): 115-133.
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, “Lilith’s Comeback from a Feministic Jungian Outlook: Contemporary Feminist Spirituality Gets into Bed with Lilith”, in Feminist Theology 27.2 (January 2019): 149-163.
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, “Historians as Storytellers: A Critical Examination of New-Age Religion’s Scholarly Historiography”, in Alternative Spirituality and Religion Review 10.1 (March 2019): 1-24.
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, “The Temptation of Legitimacy – Lilith’s Adoption and Adaption in Contemporary Feminist Spirituality”, in Modern Judaism – A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience 39.2 (May 2019): 125-143.
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, and Lila Moore, “‘Not Your Grandmother’s Bible’ – A Comparative Study of the Biblical Deluge Myth in Film”, in Religions 10.10 (2019), 542 [17 pages].
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, and Adi Sasson, “’The Most Powerful Portal in Zion’ – Kursi: The Spiritual Site that Became an Intersection of Ley-lines and Multicultural Discourses”, The Pomegranate – The International Journal of Pagan Studies 21.1 (2019): 100-127.
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, and Lila Moore, “Three Religious-Cultural Worldviews in Noah (2014) – Hedonism, Fundamentalism, and Ecofeminism”, in The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture 32.2 (2020): 144-158.
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, “Witch-Hunt or Women’s Oppression? The Secularization and Re-Enchantment of the Witches of Ashkelon Tale by Contemporary Spiritualities’ Leaders”, in Journal of Jewish Studies 72.1 (Spring 2021): 164-190.
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, “Judaism is the New Orient – How Experiencing the Far-East Helps Israelis Find Meaning in their Jewish Tradition”, in Mayseless, Ofra and Pninit Russo-Netzer (Editors). The Search for Meaning in the Israeli Cultural Scene. Oxford University Press, 2021. ch. 15; pp. 333-354.
Mayseless, Ofra, Marianna Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Rice, Aya, and Liat Zucker, “Jewish Forms of Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapy”, in Richards, P. Scott G. E., Allen, Kawika, and Daniel K. Judd (Editors.) Handbook of Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapies. APA Books (2023), Ch. 14, pp. 268-283.
Ruah-Midbar, Marianna. The New Age Culture in Israel: A Methodological Introduction and the ‘Conceptual Network’ (Doctoral Dissertation, two volumes). Bar-Ilan University: Ramat Gan, 2006.
Ruah-Midbar, Marianna, “The Myth of David and the Abyss [Thehom]”, in Nefesh [Soul] – A Quarterly for Psychology, Emotional Nurturing and Creative Education 7 (May 2001): 11-18. [Hebrew]
Ruah-Midbar, Marianna, and Klin Oron, Adam, “Jew Age: Jewish Praxis in Israeli New Age Discourse”, in Journal of Alternative Spiritualities and New Age Studies 5 (2010): 33-63.
Mayseless, Ofra, and Marianna Ruah-Midbar, “Spirituality and Mothering”, in O’Reilly, Andrea. (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Motherhood. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, 2010. pp. 1154-1156.
Ruah-Midbar, Marianna, “Current Jewish Spiritualities in Israel: A New Age”, in Modern Judaism – A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience 32.1 (February 2012): 102-124.
Ruah Midbar, Omri, and Marianna Ruah-Midbar, “The Dynamics of a Cultural Struggle in Academia: The Case of New Age Music Research”, in Cultural Analysis – An Interdisciplinary Forum on Folklore and Popular Culture 11 (2013): 67-90.
Ruah-Midbar, Marianna, and Nurit Zaidman, “’Everything Starts Within’ – New Age Values, Images, and Language in Israeli Mainstream Advertisements”, in Journal of Contemporary Religion 28.3 (2013): 421-436.
Ruah-Midbar, Marianna, and Adam Klin Oron, “’Tell me Who your Enemies are’ – Israeli Government Reports on NRMs”, in Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 52.4 (2013): 810–826.
Ruah-Midbar, Marianna (2014). “The Sacralization of Randomness – The Theological Imagination and the Logic of Computerized Divination Rituals”, in Numen – International Review for the History of Religions 61.5-6 (2014): 619-655.
Ruah-Midbar, Marianna, “Kabbalah – Modern Judaism – New Age Judaism”, in Helmer, Christine, Steven Linn McKenzie, Thomas Chr. Römer, Jens Schröter, Barry Dov Walfish, and Eric Ziolkowski. (Eds.) Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception. Vol. 14. De Gruyter: Berlin and Boston, 2017. pp. 1182-1184.
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, and Ruah Midbar, Omri, “Outdoing Authenticity: Three Postmodern Models of Adapting Folklore Materials in Current Spiritual Music”, in Journal of Folklore Research – An International Journal of Folklore and Musicology 54.3 (Sep.-Nov. 2017): 199-231.
Moore, Lila, and Marianna Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, “Humanity’s Second Chance: Darren Aronofsky’s Noah (2014) as an Environmental Cinematic Midrash”, in Journal of Religion and Film 22.2 (April 2018): Article 35.
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, “Abracadabra! Postmodern Therapeutic Methods: Language as a Neo-Magical Tool”, in Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies 17.49 (Spring 2018): 3-17.
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, and Sharon Warshawski, “Trance, Meditation and Brainwashing – The Israeli Use of Hypnosis Law and the New Religious Movements Scene”, in The Journal of CESNUR 2.4 (July-August 2018): 61-96.
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, “’It’s a Game Everybody’s Already Playing’ – Versions of the ‘Creating-Our-Reality’ Motif in the Discourse of Alternative Spiritualities”, in Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies 17.51 (Winter 2018): 115-133.
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, “Lilith’s Comeback from a Feministic Jungian Outlook: Contemporary Feminist Spirituality Gets into Bed with Lilith”, in Feminist Theology 27.2 (January 2019): 149-163.
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, “Historians as Storytellers: A Critical Examination of New-Age Religion’s Scholarly Historiography”, in Alternative Spirituality and Religion Review 10.1 (March 2019): 1-24.
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, “The Temptation of Legitimacy – Lilith’s Adoption and Adaption in Contemporary Feminist Spirituality”, in Modern Judaism – A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience 39.2 (May 2019): 125-143.
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, and Lila Moore, “‘Not Your Grandmother’s Bible’ – A Comparative Study of the Biblical Deluge Myth in Film”, in Religions 10.10 (2019), 542 [17 pages].
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, and Adi Sasson, “’The Most Powerful Portal in Zion’ – Kursi: The Spiritual Site that Became an Intersection of Ley-lines and Multicultural Discourses”, The Pomegranate – The International Journal of Pagan Studies 21.1 (2019): 100-127.
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, and Lila Moore, “Three Religious-Cultural Worldviews in Noah (2014) – Hedonism, Fundamentalism, and Ecofeminism”, in The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture 32.2 (2020): 144-158.
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, “Witch-Hunt or Women’s Oppression? The Secularization and Re-Enchantment of the Witches of Ashkelon Tale by Contemporary Spiritualities’ Leaders”, in Journal of Jewish Studies 72.1 (Spring 2021): 164-190.
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, “Judaism is the New Orient – How Experiencing the Far-East Helps Israelis Find Meaning in their Jewish Tradition”, in Mayseless, Ofra and Pninit Russo-Netzer (Editors). The Search for Meaning in the Israeli Cultural Scene. Oxford University Press, 2021. ch. 15; pp. 333-354.
Mayseless, Ofra, Marianna Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Rice, Aya, and Liat Zucker, “Jewish Forms of Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapy”, in Richards, P. Scott G. E., Allen, Kawika, and Daniel K. Judd (Editors.) Handbook of Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapies. APA Books (2023), Ch. 14, pp. 268-283.
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, and Tal Elohev, “The Sixties Did (Not-Altogether) Skip Israel – Rosh-Pinna’s Hippie Community”, in National Resilience, Politics and Society 5. 1-2 (2023): 57-92.
Mayseless, Ofra, and Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, “Veiling and Unveiling: Caution in Explicitly Integrating Jewish Spirituality in Psychotherapy in Israel” in Spirituality in Clinical Practice (forthcoming)
Hebrew only publications To the top of the page
Ruah-Midbar, Marianna, “‘Back to Paradise’ in New Age Thought: Images of an Ideal Past in the History of the Jewish People”, in Dancing in a Fallow Land: The New Age in Israel, edited by Iddo Tavory. Tel Aviv: HaKibbutz HaMeuchad (Red Line), 2007. pp. 28–59. [Hebrew]
Ruah-Midbar, Marianna, “The Attitude towards Ugly People in Israeli Culture in Light of its Sources – Early Rabbinic Literature versus European Folktales”, in Thought, Art and Literature in Judaism as Culture (Interdisciplinary Studies in Judaism as a Culture, edited by Ezer Cahanov. Tel Aviv: Yaron Golan (Achva Academic College and Judaism as Culture Library), 2007. pp. 113-152. [Hebrew]
Ruah-Midbar, Marianna, Ariel Aviv, and Zila Miron-Ilan. “The One Whom my Soul Loveth” – Love and Relationship in Jewish Thought. Ma’alot and the Ministry of Education: Jerusalem, 2007. [Hebrew]
Ruah-Midbar, Marianna, Ariel Aviv, and Inbal Yagar. “The One Whom my Soul Loveth” – Love and Relationship in Jewish Thought: A Teachers’ Guide. The Ministry of Education: Jerusalem, 2007. [Hebrew]
Oron Klin Adam, and Marianna Ruah-Midbar, “Secular by the Letter, Religious by the Spirit: The Attitudes of the Israeli New Age to Jewish Law”, in Israeli Sociology 12.1 (2010): 57-81. [Hebrew]
Naor, Lia, Marianna Ruah-Midbar, and Moshe Zeidner, “Positive Peak Experiences as Formative Events in a Person’s Life”, in Iyunim BeHinuch [Studies in Education] 7-8 (November 2013): 61-73. [Hebrew]
Ruah-Midbar, Marianna, “A Channeler, a Healer, and a Shaman Meet at the Rabbi’s: The Roadmap of Israeli Judaism(s) in the New Age”, in Iyunim: Multidisciplinary Studies in Israeli and Modern Jewish Society (Thematic series) 7 (Special issue, edited by Gideon Katz, Shalom Ratzabi, Yaacov Yadgar: Beyond Halacha: Secularism, Traditionalism and ’New Age’ Culture in Israel). Sde Boker: Ben-Gurion Institute for the study of Israel and Zionism, 2014. pp. 498-528. [Hebrew]
Ruah-Midbar, Marianna, “Thank God for India – A Look at Jewish Israelis in Light of the Easternization of the West Thesis”, in Theory and Criticism 44 (Summer 2015 – Special issue: “India / Israel”): 311-325. [Hebrew]
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, Hili Ratzon, and Rachel Werczberger, “New Religious Movements in Israel: Neo-Shamanism”, in MEIDA – Israeli Center for Contemporary Religions (2016): 0-14. Available at: https://meida-center.org.il/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/שמאניזם-סופי.pdf. [Hebrew]
Klin-Oron, Adam, and Marianna Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, “State of Israel vs. the Cults: The Anti-Cult Discourse and the Israeli Public Discourse in Government Reports”, in Israel studies in Language and Society 12.2 (2019; special issue on “Authoritative groups [cults] in contemporary Israeli society”): 126-144. [Hebrew]
Ruah Midbar, Omri, and Marianna Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, “The Doors of Creativity Shall Never be Barred: The Iconization Process of Rabbi Shalom Shabazi’s Piyyut ‘Im Nin’Alu’ in Contemporary Pop Music – From a Mystical-Yemenite Piyyut to a Mizrachi-Spiritual Symbol”, in Tema – Journal of Judeo-Yemenite Studies 16 (2019/5780): 263-298. [Hebrew]
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, and Tal Elohev, “The Hippie Colony of Old Rosh-Pina – The Appropriation and Design of Buildings and Scenic Elements for the Creation of a Spiritual-Alternative Milieu”, in Horizons in Geography 97 (2019): 107-135. [Hebrew]
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, “The ‘Enchanted Benches’ at Kursi National Park – A Case Study of the Formation of Alternative Sacred Geography”, in Horizons in Geography 97 (2019): 136-163. [Hebrew]
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, “The Witch Hunt in Ashkelon as Retold by Contemporary Spiritualities: From Embarrassment to Treasure Trove”, in Hazan, Haim, Shar’abi, Rachel, and Inbal Esther Sikurel (Editors). Between the Times – Text and Ritual in a Changing Society. Carmel: 2021. pp. 381-406. [Hebrew]
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, and Elijahu Eshed, “Canaanites and Neopagans in Canaan: A Comparison between Two Israeli Movements over the past Century”, Reshit – Studies in Judaism 6 (2022): 25-56. [Hebrew]
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, “Dabhar [thing] Dibbur [speech] Midbar [desert] – From Pre-Modernism to Post-Modernism in Contemporary Mysticism”, in Bar-Levav, Avriel, Halbertal, Moshe, and Ron Margolin (Editors). Jubilee Book in Honor of Prof. Moshe Idel [Temporary Title]. Idra Press (forthcoming, 2023). [Hebrew]
Ruah-Midbar, Marianna, “‘Back to Paradise’ in New Age Thought: Images of an Ideal Past in the History of the Jewish People”, in Dancing in a Fallow Land: The New Age in Israel, edited by Iddo Tavory. Tel Aviv: HaKibbutz HaMeuchad (Red Line), 2007. pp. 28–59. [Hebrew]
Ruah-Midbar, Marianna, “The Attitude towards Ugly People in Israeli Culture in Light of its Sources – Early Rabbinic Literature versus European Folktales”, in Thought, Art and Literature in Judaism as Culture (Interdisciplinary Studies in Judaism as a Culture, edited by Ezer Cahanov. Tel Aviv: Yaron Golan (Achva Academic College and Judaism as Culture Library), 2007. pp. 113-152. [Hebrew]
Ruah-Midbar, Marianna, Ariel Aviv, and Zila Miron-Ilan. “The One Whom my Soul Loveth” – Love and Relationship in Jewish Thought. Ma’alot and the Ministry of Education: Jerusalem, 2007. [Hebrew]
Ruah-Midbar, Marianna, Ariel Aviv, and Inbal Yagar. “The One Whom my Soul Loveth” – Love and Relationship in Jewish Thought: A Teachers’ Guide. The Ministry of Education: Jerusalem, 2007. [Hebrew]
Oron Klin Adam, and Marianna Ruah-Midbar, “Secular by the Letter, Religious by the Spirit: The Attitudes of the Israeli New Age to Jewish Law”, in Israeli Sociology 12.1 (2010): 57-81. [Hebrew]
Naor, Lia, Marianna Ruah-Midbar, and Moshe Zeidner, “Positive Peak Experiences as Formative Events in a Person’s Life”, in Iyunim BeHinuch [Studies in Education] 7-8 (November 2013): 61-73. [Hebrew]
Ruah-Midbar, Marianna, “A Channeler, a Healer, and a Shaman Meet at the Rabbi’s: The Roadmap of Israeli Judaism(s) in the New Age”, in Iyunim: Multidisciplinary Studies in Israeli and Modern Jewish Society (Thematic series) 7 (Special issue, edited by Gideon Katz, Shalom Ratzabi, Yaacov Yadgar: Beyond Halacha: Secularism, Traditionalism and ’New Age’ Culture in Israel). Sde Boker: Ben-Gurion Institute for the study of Israel and Zionism, 2014. pp. 498-528. [Hebrew]
Ruah-Midbar, Marianna, “Thank God for India – A Look at Jewish Israelis in Light of the Easternization of the West Thesis”, in Theory and Criticism 44 (Summer 2015 – Special issue: “India / Israel”): 311-325. [Hebrew]
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, Hili Ratzon, and Rachel Werczberger, “New Religious Movements in Israel: Neo-Shamanism”, in MEIDA – Israeli Center for Contemporary Religions (2016): 0-14. Available at: https://meida-center.org.il/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/שמאניזם-סופי.pdf. [Hebrew]
Klin-Oron, Adam, and Marianna Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, “State of Israel vs. the Cults: The Anti-Cult Discourse and the Israeli Public Discourse in Government Reports”, in Israel studies in Language and Society 12.2 (2019; special issue on “Authoritative groups [cults] in contemporary Israeli society”): 126-144. [Hebrew]
Ruah Midbar, Omri, and Marianna Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, “The Doors of Creativity Shall Never be Barred: The Iconization Process of Rabbi Shalom Shabazi’s Piyyut ‘Im Nin’Alu’ in Contemporary Pop Music – From a Mystical-Yemenite Piyyut to a Mizrachi-Spiritual Symbol”, in Tema – Journal of Judeo-Yemenite Studies 16 (2019/5780): 263-298. [Hebrew]
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, and Tal Elohev, “The Hippie Colony of Old Rosh-Pina – The Appropriation and Design of Buildings and Scenic Elements for the Creation of a Spiritual-Alternative Milieu”, in Horizons in Geography 97 (2019): 107-135. [Hebrew]
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, “The ‘Enchanted Benches’ at Kursi National Park – A Case Study of the Formation of Alternative Sacred Geography”, in Horizons in Geography 97 (2019): 136-163. [Hebrew]
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, “The Witch Hunt in Ashkelon as Retold by Contemporary Spiritualities: From Embarrassment to Treasure Trove”, in Hazan, Haim, Shar’abi, Rachel, and Inbal Esther Sikurel (Editors). Between the Times – Text and Ritual in a Changing Society. Carmel: 2021. pp. 381-406. [Hebrew]
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, and Elijahu Eshed, “Canaanites and Neopagans in Canaan: A Comparison between Two Israeli Movements over the past Century”, Reshit – Studies in Judaism 6 (2022): 25-56. [Hebrew]
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, “Dabhar [thing] Dibbur [speech] Midbar [desert] – From Pre-Modernism to Post-Modernism in Contemporary Mysticism”, in Bar-Levav, Avriel, Halbertal, Moshe, and Ron Margolin (Editors). Jubilee Book in Honor of Prof. Moshe Idel [Temporary Title]. Idra Press (forthcoming, 2023). [Hebrew]
Publications of last 5 years To the top of the page
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, “Lilith’s Comeback from a Feministic Jungian Outlook: Contemporary Feminist Spirituality Gets into Bed with Lilith”, in Feminist Theology 27.2 (January 2019): 149-163.
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, “Historians as Storytellers: A Critical Examination of New-Age Religion’s Scholarly Historiography”, in Alternative Spirituality and Religion Review 10.1 (March 2019): 1-24.
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, “The Temptation of Legitimacy – Lilith’s Adoption and Adaption in Contemporary Feminist Spirituality”, in Modern Judaism – A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience 39.2 (May 2019): 125-143.
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, and Lila Moore, “‘Not Your Grandmother’s Bible’ – A Comparative Study of the Biblical Deluge Myth in Film”, in Religions 10.10 (2019), 542 [17 pages].
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, and Adi Sasson, “’The Most Powerful Portal in Zion’ – Kursi: The Spiritual Site that Became an Intersection of Ley-lines and Multicultural Discourses”, The Pomegranate – The International Journal of Pagan Studies 21.1 (2019): 100-127.
Klin-Oron, Adam, and Marianna Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, “State of Israel vs. the Cults: The Anti-Cult Discourse and the Israeli Public Discourse in Government Reports”, in Israel studies in Language and Society 12.2 (2019; special issue on “Authoritative groups [cults] in contemporary Israeli society”): 126-144. [Hebrew]
Ruah Midbar, Omri, and Marianna Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, “The Doors of Creativity Shall Never be Barred: The Iconization Process of Rabbi Shalom Shabazi’s Piyyut ‘Im Nin’Alu’ in Contemporary Pop Music – From a Mystical-Yemenite Piyyut to a Mizrachi-Spiritual Symbol”, in Tema – Journal of Judeo-Yemenite Studies 16 (2019/5780): 263-298. [Hebrew]
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, and Tal Elohev, “The Hippie Colony of Old Rosh-Pina – The Appropriation and Design of Buildings and Scenic Elements for the Creation of a Spiritual-Alternative Milieu”, in Horizons in Geography 97 (2019): 107-135. [Hebrew]
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, “The ‘Enchanted Benches’ at Kursi National Park – A Case Study of the Formation of Alternative Sacred Geography”, in Horizons in Geography 97 (2019): 136-163. [Hebrew]
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, and Lila Moore, “Three Religious-Cultural Worldviews in Noah (2014) – Hedonism, Fundamentalism, and Ecofeminism”, in The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture 32.2 (2020): 144-158.
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, “Witch-Hunt or Women’s Oppression? The Secularization and Re-Enchantment of the Witches of Ashkelon Tale by Contemporary Spiritualities’ Leaders”, in Journal of Jewish Studies 72.1 (Spring 2021): 164-190.
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, “Judaism is the New Orient – How Experiencing the Far-East Helps Israelis Find Meaning in their Jewish Tradition”, in Mayseless, Ofra and Pninit Russo-Netzer (Editors). The Search for Meaning in the Israeli Cultural Scene. Oxford University Press, 2021. ch. 15; pp. 333-354.
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, “The Witch Hunt in Ashkelon as Retold by Contemporary Spiritualities: From Embarrassment to Treasure Trove”, in Hazan, Haim, Shar’abi, Rachel, and Inbal Esther Sikurel (Editors). Between the Times – Text and Ritual in a Changing Society. Carmel: 2021. pp. 381-406. [Hebrew]
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, and Elijahu Eshed, “Canaanites and Neopagans in Canaan: A Comparison between Two Israeli Movements over the past Century”, Reshit – Studies in Judaism 6 (2022): 25-56. [Hebrew]
Mayseless, Ofra, Marianna Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Rice, Aya, and Liat Zucker, “Jewish Forms of Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapy”, in Richards, P. Scott G. E., Allen, Kawika, and Daniel K. Judd (Editors.) Handbook of Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapies. APA Books (2023), Ch. 14, pp. 268-283.
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, “Dabhar [thing] Dibbur [speech] Midbar [desert] – From Pre-Modernism to Post-Modernism in Contemporary Mysticism”, in Bar-Levav, Avriel, Halbertal, Moshe, and Ron Margolin (Editors). Jubilee Book in Honor of Prof. Moshe Idel [Temporary Title]. Idra Press (forthcoming, 2023). [Hebrew]
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, “Lilith’s Comeback from a Feministic Jungian Outlook: Contemporary Feminist Spirituality Gets into Bed with Lilith”, in Feminist Theology 27.2 (January 2019): 149-163.
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, “Historians as Storytellers: A Critical Examination of New-Age Religion’s Scholarly Historiography”, in Alternative Spirituality and Religion Review 10.1 (March 2019): 1-24.
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, “The Temptation of Legitimacy – Lilith’s Adoption and Adaption in Contemporary Feminist Spirituality”, in Modern Judaism – A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience 39.2 (May 2019): 125-143.
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, and Lila Moore, “‘Not Your Grandmother’s Bible’ – A Comparative Study of the Biblical Deluge Myth in Film”, in Religions 10.10 (2019), 542 [17 pages].
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, and Adi Sasson, “’The Most Powerful Portal in Zion’ – Kursi: The Spiritual Site that Became an Intersection of Ley-lines and Multicultural Discourses”, The Pomegranate – The International Journal of Pagan Studies 21.1 (2019): 100-127.
Klin-Oron, Adam, and Marianna Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, “State of Israel vs. the Cults: The Anti-Cult Discourse and the Israeli Public Discourse in Government Reports”, in Israel studies in Language and Society 12.2 (2019; special issue on “Authoritative groups [cults] in contemporary Israeli society”): 126-144. [Hebrew]
Ruah Midbar, Omri, and Marianna Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, “The Doors of Creativity Shall Never be Barred: The Iconization Process of Rabbi Shalom Shabazi’s Piyyut ‘Im Nin’Alu’ in Contemporary Pop Music – From a Mystical-Yemenite Piyyut to a Mizrachi-Spiritual Symbol”, in Tema – Journal of Judeo-Yemenite Studies 16 (2019/5780): 263-298. [Hebrew]
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, and Tal Elohev, “The Hippie Colony of Old Rosh-Pina – The Appropriation and Design of Buildings and Scenic Elements for the Creation of a Spiritual-Alternative Milieu”, in Horizons in Geography 97 (2019): 107-135. [Hebrew]
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, “The ‘Enchanted Benches’ at Kursi National Park – A Case Study of the Formation of Alternative Sacred Geography”, in Horizons in Geography 97 (2019): 136-163. [Hebrew]
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, and Lila Moore, “Three Religious-Cultural Worldviews in Noah (2014) – Hedonism, Fundamentalism, and Ecofeminism”, in The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture 32.2 (2020): 144-158.
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, “Witch-Hunt or Women’s Oppression? The Secularization and Re-Enchantment of the Witches of Ashkelon Tale by Contemporary Spiritualities’ Leaders”, in Journal of Jewish Studies 72.1 (Spring 2021): 164-190.
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, “Judaism is the New Orient – How Experiencing the Far-East Helps Israelis Find Meaning in their Jewish Tradition”, in Mayseless, Ofra and Pninit Russo-Netzer (Editors). The Search for Meaning in the Israeli Cultural Scene. Oxford University Press, 2021. ch. 15; pp. 333-354.
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, “The Witch Hunt in Ashkelon as Retold by Contemporary Spiritualities: From Embarrassment to Treasure Trove”, in Hazan, Haim, Shar’abi, Rachel, and Inbal Esther Sikurel (Editors). Between the Times – Text and Ritual in a Changing Society. Carmel: 2021. pp. 381-406. [Hebrew]
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, and Elijahu Eshed, “Canaanites and Neopagans in Canaan: A Comparison between Two Israeli Movements over the past Century”, Reshit – Studies in Judaism 6 (2022): 25-56. [Hebrew]
Mayseless, Ofra, Marianna Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Rice, Aya, and Liat Zucker, “Jewish Forms of Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapy”, in Richards, P. Scott G. E., Allen, Kawika, and Daniel K. Judd (Editors.) Handbook of Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapies. APA Books (2023), Ch. 14, pp. 268-283.
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, and Tal Elohev, “The Sixties Did (Not-Altogether) Skip Israel – Rosh-Pinna’s Hippie Community”, in National Resilience, Politics and Society 5. 1-2 (2023): 57-92.
Mayseless, Ofra, and Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, “Veiling and Unveiling: Caution in Explicitly Integrating Jewish Spirituality in Psychotherapy in Israel” in Spirituality in Clinical Practice (forthcoming)
Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Marianna, “Dabhar [thing] Dibbur [speech] Midbar [desert] – From Pre-Modernism to Post-Modernism in Contemporary Mysticism”, in Bar-Levav, Avriel, Halbertal, Moshe, and Ron Margolin (Editors). Jubilee Book in Honor of Prof. Moshe Idel [Temporary Title]. Idra Press (forthcoming, 2023). [Hebrew]