{"id":5399,"date":"2025-09-03T20:35:55","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T20:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rlgslsb.haifa.ac.il\/2025\/09\/dr-shai-feraro\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T13:20:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T13:20:58","slug":"dr-shai-feraro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rlgslsb.haifa.ac.il\/en\/2025\/09\/dr-shai-feraro\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Shai Feraro"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Dr. Shai Feraro<\/span><\/h2>

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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. <\/span><\/p>

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<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>

His book,\u00a0<\/span>Women and Gender Issues in British Paganism, 1945-1990<\/i><\/a>, was published in 2020 by Palgrave Macmillan, who also published his co-edited volumes\u00a0Magic and Witchery in the Modern West<\/i><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Contemporary Alternative Spiritualities in Israel<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>

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.\u00a0<\/p>

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