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Professor Naomi Ruth Goldenberg | |
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Born | 1947 (age 76–77) Brooklyn, New York |
Nationality | American |
Citizenship | Dual-Citizen American / Canadian |
Alma mater | Yale University (Ph.D.) |
Occupation(s) | Classics and Religious Studies |
Employer | University of Ottawa |
Known for | Gender, Politics, Psychoanalysis, and Religion |
Title | Professor |
Naomi Ruth Goldenberg is a professor at the University of Ottawa.[1] Her regular undergraduate courses include Gender and Religion, Women and Religions, Psychology of Religion and Method and Theory in the Study of Religion.[2] Goldenberg is best known for her work in the areas of Feminist Theory and Religion, Gender and Religion, as well as the Psychoanalytic Theory and Political Theory of Religion.[3] She is one of the early members of the Women's Caucus at the American Academy of Religion and Society of Biblical Literature[4] and continues to work on and support scholarship in areas of religion and feminism, psychoanalytic theory, women's issues, gender.[1] Currently, Goldenberg is writing about understanding religions as vestigial states. Her theory demystifies religion in order to continue the feminist critique she articulated in her earlier work.[citation needed]