ד"ר אסף שרעבי

Books

Sharabi, Asaf. 2023. The Biography of a God: Mahasu in the Himalayas. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.

Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals

1. Sharabi, Asaf. 2024. The Scientist, the Therapist, and the Conspiracy Theorist: Three Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic Within the Ultra-orthodox Jewish Revival Movement in Israel. Journal of Religion and Health 63: 2633–2653.
2. Sharabi, Asaf. 2023. Mediums, Objects, and the Problem of Presence in the Western Himalayas. Ethnos 1-15.
3. Sharabi, Asaf. 2022. A Male Ethnographer’s Perspective on Sexual Harassment in Fieldwork: a Research Note. Qualitative Research 22 (2): 328-344.
4. Sharabi, Asaf. 2021. The Politics of Madness and Spirit Possession in Northern India. Medical Anthropology 40 (2): 182-195.
5. Sharabi, Asaf and Ruchi Ramesh. 2020. Karma and Covid-19: The Case of Deities in Himachal Pradesh. Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences 27 (1):183-194
6. Sharabi, Asaf. 2020. Omniscient Gods and Precision and Intent in Rituals: The Case of Orthodox Judaism. Journal of Contemporary Religion 35 (2): 307-322.
7. Sharabi, Asaf. 2019. Is it God speaking? Agency of Deities in the Western Himalaya. Anthropological Forum 29 (4): 356–373.
8. Guzmen-Carmeli, Shlomo and Asaf Sharabi. 2019. Textual Healing: Tailor-Made Kabbalistic Therapeutics in Jerusalem. Anthropology and Medicine 26 (2): 244-258.
9. Sharabi, Asaf and Hagar Shalev. 2018. Charismatic Mediumship and Traditional Priesthood: Power Relations in a Religious Field. Religion 48 (2): 198-214.
10. Shalev, Hagar and Asaf Sharabi. 2018. Sanskritization of the Upper Castes: The Case of Mahāsū Followers. Anthropos, 113 (1), 258–267.
11. Sharabi, Asaf and Hagar Shalev. 2016. From Ruler to Healer: Changes in Religious Experience in the Western Himalayas. Himalaya 36 (2): 22-35.
12. Sharabi, Asaf. 2015. Religion and Modernity: Religious Revival Movement in Israel. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 44 (2): 223-248.
13. Sharabi, Asaf. 2014. Deep Healing: Ritual Healing in the Teshuvah Movement. Anthropology and Medicine 21 (3): 277-289.
14. Sharabi, Asaf. 2014. Soft religion and Rigid Religion: The Case of the Teshuvah Movement in Israel. Iyunim Bitkumat Israel. 434-460 (Hebrew)
15. Guzmen-Carmeli, Shlomo and Asaf Sharabi. 2014, The Holy Contract: the social contract of the Toldos Aharon Hasidic dynasty. Social Compass 61 (3): 290-390.
16. Sharabi, Asaf. 2013. 'Boundary Work' in Religious Revival Movements: The Case of the 'Teshuva Movement' in Israel. Ethnography 14 (2): 233-254.
17. Sharabi, Asaf. 2013. Zikui Harabim: The Capitalist Logic in the Religious Revival Movement in Israel. Israeli Sociology 14 (2): 391-412. (Hebrew)
18. Sharabi, Asaf and Shlomo Guzmen-Carmeli. 2013. The Teshuva Bargain: Ritual Healing Performances at Rabbi Amnon Yitzchak's rallies. Journal of Ritual Studies 27 (2): 97-110.
19. Sharabi, Asaf. 2012. 'Teshuvah Baskets' in the Israeli Teshuvah Market. Culture and Religion, 13 (3): 273-293.

Book Chapters

1. Sharabi, Asaf. 2021. Goddesses and Indian women. In Women in 21st Century, edited by Ruchi Ramesh, 104-122. Uttar Pradesh, India: Social Research Foundation
2. Sharabi, Asaf. 2021. Mediums and Deep Healing: Ritual Healing in the Western Himalayas. In Recent Advances in Indian Medical Anthropology, edited by P.C. Joshi and Chakraverti Mahajan, 63-74. Delhi: Concept Publishing Company
3. Sharabi, Asaf. 2021. "Today Science Proves the Torah": Various Textual Experiences in the Sephardic-Haredi Teshuva Movement and in the Zionist-Religious Teshuva Movement. In The Power of Words: Anthropological Studies in Jewish Textuality, edited by Nisan Rubin and Shlomo Guzmen-Carmeli, 291-310. Jerusalem: Carmel Publishing House. (Hebrew)
4. Cooper, Samuel and Asaf Sharabi. 2006. The Department of Sociology and Anthropology. In Bar Ilan University – From Idea to Action, edited by Dov Schward, 463-472. Ramat Gan: University of Bar-Ilan Press. (Hebrew)