Marc David Baer and Sarah Imhoff discuss each other’s works and the ways they intersect.
Sarah Imhoff
Sarah Imhoff is associate professor in the Department of Religious Studies and the Borns Jewish Studies Program at Indiana University. She writes about religion and the body with a particular interest in gender, sexuality, and American religion. She is author of Masculinity and the Making of American Judaism (Indiana University Press, 2017). Her current book project considers the question of what it means when our embodied lives do not match our religious and political ideals, largely by considering the life of a queer disabled American Zionist woman named Jessie Sampter.
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