Dr. Shai Feraro is a historian and a scholar of religion, and studies the intellectual, cultural and transatlantic history of Britain and North America during the 19th-10th centuries, while focusing on matters or religion, gender and feminism.
He teaches at the Open University of Israel and in the Technion, is a Research Fellow at the University of Haifa’s General History Department, and serves as the Secretary of the Israeli Association for the Study of Religions.
His book, Women and Gender Issues in British Paganism, 1945-1990, was published in 2020 by Palgrave Macmillan, who also published his co-edited volumes Magic and Witchery in the Modern West and Contemporary Alternative Spiritualities in Israel.
In recent years Dr. Feraro mostly studies Britain’s 20th Century esoteric bookshop scene; gender and sexuality in new religions; and the monitoring and surveillance placed on adherents of new religious movements and occultism in Britain by State bodies between the mid-19th Century and the 1990s.