Naomi Goldenberg

Professor
Naomi Ruth Goldenberg
Born1947 (age 76–77)
Brooklyn, New York
NationalityAmerican
CitizenshipDual-Citizen American / Canadian
Alma materYale University (Ph.D.)
Occupation(s)Classics and Religious Studies
EmployerUniversity of Ottawa
Known forGender, Politics, Psychoanalysis, and Religion
TitleProfessor

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]

  1. ^ a b "Curriculum Vitae - Naomi Goldenberg". www.naomigoldenberg.com. Retrieved 2020-02-20.
  2. ^ "Course Catalogue - Religious Studies". catalogue.uottawa.ca/en/courses/srs. Retrieved 2020-02-20.
  3. ^ "Naomi Goldenberg". uniweb.uottawa.ca/members/456. Retrieved 2020-02-20.
  4. ^ "Women's Caucus AAR SBL". Retrieved 2020-02-20.