Naomi Goldenberg

{{Multiple issues|{{Third-party|date=December 2018}}{{BLP sources|date=April 2021}}

}}

{{Infobox person

| honorific_prefix =

| name = Naomi Ruth Goldenberg

| honorific_suffix =

| image =

| landscape =

| alt =

| caption =

| native_name =

| native_name_lang =

| pronunciation =

| birth_name =

| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1947}}

| birth_place = Brooklyn, New York, U.S.

| baptised =

| disappeared_date =

| disappeared_place =

| disappeared_status =

| death_date =

| death_place =

| death_cause =

| body_discovered =

| resting_place =

| resting_place_coordinates =

| burial_place =

| burial_coordinates =

| monuments =

| nationality = American

| other_names =

| citizenship = Dual-Citizen American / Canadian

| education = Douglass College (BA)
Yale University (MA, MPhil, PhD)

| occupation = Classics and Religious Studies

| era =

| employer = University of Ottawa

| agent =

| known_for = Gender, Politics, Psychoanalysis, and Religion

| notable_works =

| style =

| television =

| title = Professor

| boards =

| criminal_charge =

| criminal_penalty =

| criminal_status =

| spouse =

| footnotes =

}}

Naomi Ruth Goldenberg (born 1947) is a professor at the University of Ottawa.{{Cite web|url=http://www.naomigoldenberg.com/cv.html|title=Curriculum Vitae - Naomi Goldenberg|website=www.naomigoldenberg.com|access-date=2020-02-20}} Her regular undergraduate courses include Gender and Religion, Women and Religions, Psychology of Religion and Method and Theory in the Study of Religion.{{Cite web|url=https://catalogue.uottawa.ca/en/courses/srs |title=Course Catalogue - Religious Studies|website=catalogue.uottawa.ca/en/courses/srs|access-date=2020-02-20}} 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.{{Cite web|url=https://uniweb.uottawa.ca/members/456|title=Naomi Goldenberg|website=uniweb.uottawa.ca/members/456|access-date=2020-02-20}} She is one of the early members of the Women's Caucus at the American Academy of Religion and Society of Biblical Literature{{Cite web|url=https://www.womenscaucusaarsbl.org|title=Women's Caucus AAR SBL|access-date=2020-02-20}} and continues to work on and support scholarship in areas of religion and feminism, psychoanalytic theory, women's issues, gender.

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[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93115396/marriage-of-goldenberg-shapiro/ "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." 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. Goldenberg studied at the C.G. Jung Institute in Zürich, Switzerland during her doctoral program.

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{{Cite web|url=https://www.apadivisions.org/division-36/awards/bier.aspx?tab=4|title=William C. Bier Award|website=Psychology of Religion and Spirituality}}
2004 Excellence in Education Prize, University of Ottawa {{Cite news|url=https://www.uottawa.ca/vice-president-academic/faculty-relations/prizes/excellence-education-prizes|title=Excellence in Education Prizes|work=Vice-President Academic and Provost|access-date=2018-12-03}}

Published works

= Books =

Changing of the Gods: Feminism and the End of Traditional Religions (1979){{Cite journal|last=Berg|first=Sandra Beth|date=1980|title=Review of Changing of the Gods: Feminism and the End of Traditional Religions|journal=Journal of the American Academy of Religion|volume=48|issue=1|pages=141–142|doi=10.1093/jaarel/XLVIII.1.141|jstor=1463574}}{{Cite journal|last=van Herik|first=Judith|date=1982|title=Review of Changing of the Gods: Feminism and the End of Traditional Religions|journal=The Journal of Religion|volume=62|issue=1|pages=74–75|jstor=1203384|doi=10.1086/486914}}{{Cite journal|last=Landes|first=Paula Fredriksen|date=1980|title=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|journal=Signs|volume=6|issue=2|pages=328–334|jstor=3173932|doi=10.1086/493802}}
The End of God (1982)
Returning Words to Flesh: Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and the Resurrection of the Body (1990){{Cite journal|last=Murphy|first=Christina|date=1991|title=Review of Returning Words to Flesh: Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and the Resurrection of the Body|journal=Freshman English News|volume=19|issue=2|pages=40–41|jstor=43518705}}{{Cite journal|last=LeMasters|first=Carol|date=1992|title=Review of Returning Words to Flesh: Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and the Resurrection of the Body, ; Thinking Fragments: Psychoanalysis, Feminism and Postmodernism in the Contemporary West|journal=Hypatia|volume=7|issue=1|pages=162–166|doi=10.1017/S0887536700004694|jstor=3810146|s2cid=223592487 }}{{Cite journal|last=Craft|first=Carolyn M.|date=1992|editor-last=Cunneen|editor-first=Sally|editor2-last=Franck|editor2-first=Frederick|editor3-last=Goldenberg|editor3-first=Naomi R.|editor4-last=May|editor4-first=Melanie A.|editor5-last=Nelson|editor5-first=Gertrude Mueller|title=Femininity, Humanity, and Remembrance|journal=CrossCurrents|volume=42|issue=4|pages=554–558|jstor=24460046}}{{Cite journal|last=Gardiner|first=Judith Kegan|date=1992|editor-last=Abel|editor-first=Elizabeth|editor2-last=Alford|editor2-first=C. Fred|editor3-last=Benjamin|editor3-first=Jessica|editor4-last=Brennan|editor4-first=Teresa|editor5-last=Chodorow|editor5-first=Nancy|editor6-last=Feldstein|editor6-first=Richard|editor7-last=Sussman|editor7-first=Henry|editor8-last=Flax|editor8-first=Jane|editor9-last=Goldenberg|editor9-first=Naomi R.|title=Psychoanalysis and Feminism: An American Humanist's View|journal=Signs|volume=17|issue=2|pages=437–454|jstor=3174471|doi=10.1086/494737|s2cid=147180599 }}
Resurrecting the Body: Feminism, Religion and Psychoanalysis (1993)
Encyclopedia of Women and World Religion (2007, editor){{Cite news|url=https://brill.com/abstract/package/9789004132474?rskey=5vv5of&result=2|title=Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures (Set Volumes 1-6)|date=2007-04-01|access-date=2018-11-30}}
Religion As a Category of Governance and Sovereignty (2015, editor, with Trevor Stack and Timothy Fitzgerald){{Cite book|url=https://brill.com/view/title/31494|title=Religion as a Category of Governance and Sovereignty|last1=Trevor|first1=Stack|last2=Goldenberg R.|first2=Naomi|last3=Fitzgerald|first3=Timothy|publisher=Brill|year=2015|isbn=978-90-04-29059-4}}{{Cite book|date=2015-05-26|title=Religion as a Category of Governance and Sovereignty|publisher=Brill |isbn=9789004290594 |url=https://brill.com/view/title/31494}}

= Journal articles =

"Theorizing Religions as Vestigial States in Relation to Gender and Law: Three Cases"{{Cite journal|last=Goldenberg R.|first=Naomi|date=March 2013|title=Theorizing Religions as Vestigial States in Relation to Gender and Law: Three Cases|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259734331|journal=Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion|volume=29|pages=38–50|doi=10.2979/jfemistudreli.29.1.39|s2cid=143762900 }}
"A Gentle Critique of Mourning Religion"{{Cite journal|last=Goldenberg|first=Naomi|date=January 2010|title=A Gentle Critique of Mourning Religion|journal=Pastoral Psychology|volume=59|issue=3|pages=373–377|doi=10.1007/s11089-009-0267-x|s2cid=143679630 }}
"What's God Got to do with it? A call for problematizing Basic Terms in the Feminist Analysis of Religion" {{Cite journal|last=Goldenberg R.|first=Naomi|date=January 2007|title=What's God Got to Do with It?—A Call for Problematizing Basic Terms in the Feminist Analysis of Religion|journal=Feminist Theology|volume=15|issue=3|pages=275–288|doi=10.1177/0966735006076166|s2cid=143375948 }}
"Thought on the 20th Birthday of the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion" {{Cite journal|last=Goldenberg R.|first=Naomi|date=January 2005|title=Thoughts on the 20th Birthday of the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion|journal=Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion|volume=12|issue=2|pages=126–128}}
"Witched and Words"{{Cite journal|last=Goldenberg R.|first=Naomi|date=January 2004|title=Witched and Words|journal=Feminist Theology|volume=1|issue=2|pages=203–211|doi=10.1177/096673500401200207|s2cid=143110452 }}
"Memories of Marija Gimbutas and the King's Archaeologist{{Cite journal|last=Goldenberg R.|first=Naomi|date=Fall 1996|title=Memories of Marija Gimbutas and the King's Archaeologist|journal=Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion|volume=12|issue=2|pages=67–72|jstor=25002287}}
"Interview"{{Cite journal|last=Goldenberg R.|first=Naomi|date=Winter 2002|title=Interview|journal=Feminist Theology|issue=30|pages=114–124}}