RT Article
T1 Professional Identity Formation in a Liberal Israeli Rabbinical Seminary: Spiritual Transformers in the Learned Curriculum
JF Religious education
VO 113
IS 4
SP 392
OP 405
A1 Muszkat-Barkan, Michal
A1 Rosenstein, Marc
A2 Rosenstein, Marc
LA English
YR 2018
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1663755191
AB We examined Israeli Reform rabbis' reflections on what components of their training most influenced the development of their rabbinical identity. Theoretical perspectives applied in planning the study and analyzing the data were: professional identity formation; pedagogies of training clergy; and taught vs. learned curriculum. We identified four common learning experiences as important in rabbinical identity formation: introspection; gaining ownership of classical texts; partner/group study; and teachers who were mentors/models. We argue that these 'spiritual transformers' express a search by the rabbinical students for a sense of connectedness, with themselves, with each other, and with the tradition and its bearers.
DO 10.1080/00344087.2018.1436017