Yoram Bilu

Research interests:

• Psychological and Psychiatric Anthropology

• Culture and psychiatry

• Folk religion

• Messianism

• Moroccan Jews  

Selected publications:

Books

• Bilu, Y., Without Bounds: The Life and Death of Rabbi Ya'aqov Wazana. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. 2000 (an expanded and updated version)
  
  

• Bilu, Y. The Saints' Agents: Dreamers, Healers and Holy People in the Israeli Urban Fringe. Haifa University Press, forthcoming.

  
  Articles

• Bilu, Y. (1985) "The Taming of the Deviants and Beyond: an Analysis of Dybbuk Possession and Exorcism in Judaism". Psychoanalytic Study of Society 11:1-32 (Bryce Boyer Prize).  
  
  

• Bilu, Y. (1990) "Jewish Moroccan 'Saint Impresarios' in Israel: a Stage-Developmental Perspective". Psychoanalytic Study of Society 15:247-269.  
  
  

• Bilu, Y., and E. Ben-Ari (1992) "The Making of Modern Saints: Manufactured Charisma and the Abu-Hatseiras of Israel". American Ethnologist 19(4):29-44.  
  
  

• Bilu, Y., and E. Witztum (1993) "Working with Jewish Ultra-Orthodox Patients: Guidelines for Culturally Sensitive Therapy". Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 17:197-233. 
  
  

• Ben-Shakhar, G., M. Bar-Hillel, Y.Bilu, and G. Shefler, 1998. "Seek and Yes Shall find: Test Rusults Are What You Hypothesize They Are." Journal of Behavioral Decision Making 11: 235-249.
  
  

• Bilu, Y., 2000. "Oneirobiography and Oneirocommunity in Saint Worship in Israel: A Two-Tier Model for Dream-Inspired Religious Revivals." Dreaming 10 (2):
  85-101.


Chapters in Books

• Bilu, Y., 1996. "The Resurrection of Rabbi Ya'acov Wazana: The Dialectics of Life, Story, and Afterlife." The Narrative Study of Lives 4: 151-171. Reprinted in: Media, Rite and Identity, T. Liebes and J. Curran, eds. (1998). London: Roultledge, pp. 136-152.
  
  

• Bilu, Y., 1998. "The Role of Charismatic Dreams in the Creation of Sacred Sites in Present-Day Israel." In: Sacred Space: Shrine, City, Land, B. Z. Kedar (ed.), Jerusalem: The Israel Academy of Science, pp. 136-152.
  
  

• Bilu Y., 1998. "Veneration of Saints and Pilgrimage to Sacred Sites as a Universal Phenomenon." In: To the Tombs of the Righteous: Pilgrimage in Contemporary Israel. Jerusalem: The Israel Museum, pp. 11-26.
  
  

• Bilu, Y. 1998. "The Revival of Cults of Saints in Israel: The Contribution of the Moroccan Community." In: To the Tombs of the Righteous: Pilgrimage in Contemporary Israel, pp. 27-46.
  
  

• Bilu, Y., 2000. "Circumcision, The First Haircut and the Torah: Ritual and Male Identity in the Ultraorthodox Community of Israel." In: Imagined Masculinities: Male Identity and Culture in the Modern Middle East, M. Ghoussoub and E. Sinclair-Webb (eds.), London: Saqi Books, pp. 33-64.
  
  

• Bilu, Y., "Dybbuk, Aslai, Zar:The cultural Distinctiveness and Historical Situatedness of Possession Illnesses in Three Jewish Milieus." In: Spirit Possession in Judaism, M. Goldish, ed. Detroit: Wayne State University Press (forthcoming).
  
  

• Bilu, Y., and Y. Goodman, 2001. "The Otherworldly Gifts of Autism: Mystical implementation of Facilitated Communication in the Ultra-Orthodox Community in Israel." In: The Research Basis for Autism Intervention, E. Schopler et al., eds. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, pp. 43-55
  
  

• Bilu, Y., 2001 "Moroccan Jews and the Shaping of Israel's Sacred Geography." In: Divergent Jewish Culture: Israel and America, D. Dash-Moore and I. Troen, eds. New Haven: Yale University Press, pp. 72-86.
  
  

• Bilu, Y., "The Rise of a New Negev Cult Center Today: Baba Sali's Sanctuary in Netivot, Israel." In: Archaeology, Anthropology and Cult, D. Alon and T. E. Levy, eds. London: Cassell (forthcoming)
  
  

• Bilu, Y., "The Sanctification of Space in Israel: Civil Religion and Folk-Judaism." In: Jews In Israel, U. Rebhun and C. I. Wexman, eds. Forthcoming