Naomi Goldenberg

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]}

Professor Naomi Ruth Goldenberg
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

Early life and education

Born in 1947 in Brooklyn, New York, Naomi Ruth Goldenberg grew up in Teaneck, New Jersey. She attended Teaneck High School^[5] and graduated with High Honors in Classics from Douglass College in New Brunswick, New Jersey in 1969. After beginning graduate work in Classics at Princeton University, she switched to Religious Studies at Yale University where she received an M.A. in 1974, an M.Phil. in 1975, and a Ph.D. in 1976. for her graduate work.^[1] Goldenberg studied at the C.G. Jung Institute in Zürich, Switzerland during her doctoral program.

Academic career

University of Ottawa's Coat of Arms

Goldenberg is a full professor in the Department of Classics and Religious Studies at the University of Ottawa University of Ottawa where she has been employed since 1977. She served as Director of Women's Studies from 1989 to 1992. Her graduate and undergraduate courses cover topics related to psychoanalysis, politics, gender, popular culture and mythology.^{[citation needed]}

Awards and honours

Goldenberg has received many honourable prizes and recognized for her work.

• 1966 Cornelison Prize for Latin translation, Douglass College
• 1967 Phi Beta Kappa Sophomore prize, Douglass College
• 1968 Phi Beta Kappa, Douglass College
• 1969-70 Woodrow Wilson Fellow and University Fellow, Princeton University
• 1975-76 Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellow in Women's Studies, Yale University
• 1980 Merit increase for excellence in teaching at the University of Ottawa
• 2004 William C. Bier Award, American Psychological Association^[6]
• 2004 Excellence in Education Prize, University of Ottawa ^[7]

Published works

Books

• Changing of the Gods: Feminism and the End of Traditional Religions (1979)^[8][9][10]
• The End of God (1982)
• Returning Words to Flesh: Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and the Resurrection of the Body (1990)^{[11][12][13][14]}
• Resurrecting the Body: Feminism, Religion and Psychoanalysis (1993)^[11]
• Encyclopedia of Women and World Religion (2007, editor)^[15]
• Religion As a Category of Governance and Sovereignty (2015, editor, with Trevor Stack and Timothy Fitzgerald)^[16][17]

Journal articles

• "Theorizing Religions as Vestigial States in Relation to Gender and Law: Three Cases"^[18]
• "A Gentle Critique of Mourning Religion"^[19]
• "What's God Got to do with it? A call for problematizing Basic Terms in the Feminist Analysis of Religion" ^[20]
• "Thought on the 20th Birthday of the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion" ^[21]
• "Witched and Words"^[22]
• "Memories of Marija Gimbutas and the King's Archaeologist^[23]
• "Interview"^[24]

See also

• List of religious studies scholars
• psychology of religion
• Goddess movement
• Matriarchal religion
• Mother goddess
• Matriarchy

References

1. "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.
5. "Goldenberg, Shapiro", The Record, March 13, 1969. Accessed January 21, 2022, via Newspapers.com. "Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Goldenberg of 114 Ayers Court have announced the engagement of their daughter, Naomi Ruth, to Jonathan Salem Shapiro, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Roland Shapiro of New York City. The bride-to-be was graduated from Teaneck High School and is senior at Douglass College."
6. "William C. Bier Award". Psychology of Religion and Spirituality.
7. "Excellence in Education Prizes". Vice-President Academic and Provost. Retrieved 2018-12-03.
8. Berg, Sandra Beth (1980). "Review of Changing of the Gods: Feminism and the End of Traditional Religions". Journal of the American Academy of Religion. 48 (1): 141–142. doi:10.1093/jaarel/XLVIII.1.141. JSTOR 1463574.
9. van Herik, Judith (1982). "Review of Changing of the Gods: Feminism and the End of Traditional Religions". The Journal of Religion. 62 (1): 74–75. doi:10.1086/486914. JSTOR 1203384.
10. Landes, Paula Fredriksen (1980). "Review of Diving Deep and Surfacing: Women Writers on Spiritual Quest, ; Womanspirit Rising: A Feminist Reader in Religion, Carol P. Christ, ; The Changing of the Gods: Feminism and the End of Traditional Religions, ; Kiss Sleeping Beauty Goodbye: Breaking the Spell of Feminine Myths and Models, ; Sex, Sin and Grace: Women's Experience and the Theologies of Reinhold Niebuhr and Paul Tillich, Judith Plaskow". Signs. 6 (2): 328–334. doi:10.1086/493802. JSTOR 3173932.
11. Murphy, Christina (1991). "Review of Returning Words to Flesh: Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and the Resurrection of the Body". Freshman English News. 19 (2): 40–41. JSTOR 43518705.
12. LeMasters, Carol (1992). "Review of Returning Words to Flesh: Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and the Resurrection of the Body, ; Thinking Fragments: Psychoanalysis, Feminism and Postmodernism in the Contemporary West". Hypatia. 7 (1): 162–166. doi:10.1017/S0887536700004694. JSTOR 3810146. S2CID 223592487.
13. Craft, Carolyn M. (1992). Cunneen, Sally; Franck, Frederick; Goldenberg, Naomi R.; May, Melanie A.; Nelson, Gertrude Mueller (eds.). "Femininity, Humanity, and Remembrance". CrossCurrents. 42 (4): 554–558. JSTOR 24460046.
14. Gardiner, Judith Kegan (1992). Abel, Elizabeth; Alford, C. Fred; Benjamin, Jessica; Brennan, Teresa; Chodorow, Nancy; Feldstein, Richard; Sussman, Henry; Flax, Jane; Goldenberg, Naomi R. (eds.). "Psychoanalysis and Feminism: An American Humanist's View". Signs. 17 (2): 437–454. doi:10.1086/494737. JSTOR 3174471. S2CID 147180599.
15. "Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures (Set Volumes 1-6)". 2007-04-01. Retrieved 2018-11-30.
16. Trevor, Stack; Goldenberg R., Naomi; Fitzgerald, Timothy (2015). Religion as a Category of Governance and Sovereignty. Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-29059-4.
17. Religion as a Category of Governance and Sovereignty. Brill. 2015-05-26. ISBN 9789004290594.
18. Goldenberg R., Naomi (March 2013). "Theorizing Religions as Vestigial States in Relation to Gender and Law: Three Cases". Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion. 29: 38–50. doi:10.2979/jfemistudreli.29.1.39. S2CID 143762900.
19. Goldenberg, Naomi (January 2010). "A Gentle Critique of Mourning Religion". Pastoral Psychology. 59 (3): 373–377. doi:10.1007/s11089-009-0267-x. S2CID 143679630.
20. Goldenberg R., Naomi (January 2007). "What's God Got to Do with It?—A Call for Problematizing Basic Terms in the Feminist Analysis of Religion". Feminist Theology. 15 (3): 275–288. doi:10.1177/0966735006076166. S2CID 143375948.
21. Goldenberg R., Naomi (January 2005). "Thoughts on the 20th Birthday of the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion". Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion. 12 (2): 126–128.
22. Goldenberg R., Naomi (January 2004). "Witched and Words". Feminist Theology. 1 (2): 203–211. doi:10.1177/096673500401200207. S2CID 143110452.
23. Goldenberg R., Naomi (Fall 1996). "Memories of Marija Gimbutas and the King's Archaeologist". Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion. 12 (2): 67–72. JSTOR 25002287.
24. Goldenberg R., Naomi (Winter 2002). "Interview". Feminist Theology (30): 114–124.