Pedagogy, Practice, and Parity: Prayer Experiences of Modern Orthodox Jewish Women in Toronto

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dc.contributor.advisorvan Daalen-Smith, Cheryl
dc.contributor.advisorRowley, Sherry
dc.contributor.advisorSchnoor, Randal
dc.contributor.authorMarkus, Ariella Chana
dc.date.accessioned2023-12-08T14:27:54Z
dc.date.available2023-12-08T14:27:54Z
dc.date.issued2023-12-08
dc.date.updated2023-12-08T14:27:53Z
dc.degree.disciplineInterdisciplinary Studies
dc.degree.levelMaster's
dc.degree.nameMA - Master of Arts
dc.description.abstractThrough the disciplinary lenses of Religion, Education, and Gender/Feminist Studies, my research discusses pedagogy, practice, and parity. I conducted research with 9 Jewish women who self-identified as being part of Toronto’s Modern Orthodox Jewish community. This stream of Judaism is unique, in that girls have the opportunity to be prayer leaders in school at a young age, even though there are no female prayer leaders in mainstream Modern Orthodox synagogues. Girls learn to pray together with boys for the first eleven years of their lives, while knowing that they will pray on the other side of a gender-partition when they become Bat Mitzvah at twelve years of age. And yet, despite being independent women with agency, and despite having many other options in Toronto’s diverse Jewish landscape, many women choose to remain in this particular community in adulthood. This retrospective research endeavour asked participants to reflect upon their adulthood prayer practices, as well as their girlhood experiences of praying in Jewish day school. Connections were explored, leading to discussions about identity construction and conceptions of self, gendered experiences, and contradictory practices. My research seeks to uncover the relationship between prayer education and identity formation for girls, and the implications that this has on women’s communal leadership roles in adulthood.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10315/41635
dc.languageen
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subjectReligious education
dc.subjectGender studies
dc.subjectEducation
dc.subject.keywordsBat Mitzvah
dc.subject.keywordsDaven
dc.subject.keywordsEducation
dc.subject.keywordsGender
dc.subject.keywordsGirls
dc.subject.keywordsJewish
dc.subject.keywordsJewish day school
dc.subject.keywordsJudaism
dc.subject.keywordsModern Orthodox
dc.subject.keywordsModern Orthodoxy
dc.subject.keywordsPedagogy
dc.subject.keywordsPrayer
dc.subject.keywordsReligion
dc.subject.keywordsSchool
dc.subject.keywordsTefilla
dc.subject.keywordsToronto
dc.subject.keywordsWomen
dc.titlePedagogy, Practice, and Parity: Prayer Experiences of Modern Orthodox Jewish Women in Toronto
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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