Susan Starr Sered

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Susan Starr Sered (born 1955) is the Senior Research Associate at Suffolk University's Center for Women's Health and Human Rights, having previously been the director of the "Religion, Health and Healing Initiative" at the Harvard University Center for the Study of World Religions, and a Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Bar-Ilan University, Israel, and is the author of several books focusing on women's health and religious issues, including:

• Women As Ritual Experts: The Religious Lives of Elderly Jewish Women in Jerusalem, New York: Oxford University Press, (1992)
• Priestess, Mother, Sacred Sister: Religions Dominated by Women, New York: Oxford University Press, (1994)
• Women of the Sacred Groves: Divine Priestesses of Okinawa, New York: Oxford University Press, (1999)
• What Makes Women Sick: Maternity, Modesty, and Militarism in Israeli Society, Hanover, NH: Brandeis University Press : University Press of New England, (2000)
• Religious healing in Boston : first findings, Ed. Susan Sered and Linda Barnes Cambridge, MA: Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University, The Divinity School, (2001)
• Religious healing in Boston : reports from the field, Ed. Susan Sered Cambridge, MA: Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University, The Divinity School, (2002)
• Religious healing in Boston : body, spirit, community, Ed. Susan Sered Cambridge, MA: Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University, The Divinity School, (2004)
• Religion and healing in America, Ed. Susan Sered and Linda L. Barnes Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, (2005)
• Uninsured in America: Life and Death in the Land of Opportunity (with Rushika Fernandopulle) (2005)

Professor Sered's work "Women of the Sacred Groves" was severely criticized by Okinawan Studies related scholars in a "Declaration of Concern" published in issue 54 of the Ryukyuanist. Professor Sered later submitted a rebuttal to this statement in issue 55 of the Ryukyuanist.

[edit] External links

• Suffolk University biography page on Susan Sered
• Suffolk University CV page on Susan Sered
• Bibliography from the Religion, Health, and Healing Initiative (Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School)
• Susan Sered bibliography from Harvard Divinity School's Women's Studies in Religion Program