Yoram Bilu
Israeli professor of anthropology and psychology
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Yoram Bilu (Hebrew: יורם בילו; born March 6, 1942) is an Israeli professor emeritus of anthropology and psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Member of the Israeli Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
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- Anthropologist
- Psychologist
- Professor emeritus
- Israel Prize (2013)
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| Born | 6 March 1942 |
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| Known for | Research on folk religion, culture and mental health, and Moroccan Jewish practices |
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He is known for his work on folk religion (messianism, saint worship); the interaction between culture and mental health; the sanctification of space in Israel; and the religious and cultural practices of Moroccan Jews. He is recipient of 2013 the Israel Prize in sociology and anthropology. He is a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.[1]
From 2003 to 2004 he held a fellowship at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies.[2] He has also been a member of the Israeli Society and of the American Association of Anthropology and serves as a member of the following scientific journals: Transcultural Psychiatry, Anthropology and Medicine, Contemporary Jewry. In 2020, he published With Us More Than Ever: Making the Absent Rebbe Present in Messianic Chabad, an English translation of his 2016 Hebrew monograph on the same subject.[3]
