Dr Miri Freud-Kandel

Research Interests:

Modern Jewish thought, particularly the development of Orthodox Jewish theology in the 19th and 20th Centuries; denominationalism and the nature of fundamentalism in modern and contemporary Orthodox Judaism; Anglo-Jewry, especially Anglo-Jewish Orthodoxy and the role of the Chief Rabbinate; the theology of Louis Jacobs; the systematisation of modern theologies of Judaism; Jewish feminist thought.

General Interests:

Modern Judaism, The place of Jewish theology in both Jewish Studies and the Study of Religions, religious fundamentalism, the nature and study of religions and religious beliefs, women and religion.