STUART Z. CHARMÉ, Ph. D.
Professor of Religion

 Department of Philosophy and Religion
Rutgers--The State University of New Jersey
Camden, New Jersey  08102
856-225-6237
856-225-6541 (fax)
e-mail:  scharme@camden.rutgers.edu

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BOOKS

Vulgarity and Authenticity: Dimensions of Otherness in the World of Jean-Paul Sartre
University of Massachusetts Press, 1991 (click for Table of Contents)
 
 

Meaning and Myth in the Study of Lives: A Sartrean Perspective
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1984 (click for Table of Contents)
 
 

"Kotel:  Jewish Teens on Gender and Tradition, 2002 (27 minutes)
 
 

"The Political Transformation of Gender Traditions at the Western Wall in Jerusalem,” Journal for Feminist Studies of Religion, vol. 21, no. 1, Spring 2005, pp. 5-34.

"The Gender Question and the Study of Jewish Children," Religious Education, Winter 2005-6, in press

"Varieties of Authenticity and Jewish Identity" Jewish Social Studies, vol. 6, no. 2, March 2000,

"Revisiting Sartre and the Question of Religion, " Continental Philosophy Review, vol. 33 (2000), pp. 1-26.

"Sartre and the Link between Patriarchal Atheism and Feminist Theology," in Rereading the Canon: Feminist Interpretations of Jean-Paul Sartre, edited by Julien Murphy (Pennsylvania State University Press,1999), pp. 300-324.

"Life," "Suicide," "Unconscious," in Dictionary of Existentialism, edited by Haim Gordon, (Westport, Ct.:  Greenwood Press, 1999), pp. 265-69, 449-50, 479-82.

"Alterity, Authenticity, and Jewish Identity," Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, vol. 16, no. 3, Spring 1998, pp. 42-62.

"The Story of Adam and Eve and the Development of Children's Gender Identity," Journal for Feminist Studies of Religion, vol. 13, no. 2, Fall 1997, pp. 27-44.

"The Different Voices in Sartre's Ethics," reprinted in Sartre and Existentialism, Volume 5: "Existentialist Ethics," edited by William McBride, Garland Publishing, 1997.

"Sartre's Images of the Other and the Search for Authenticity," reprinted in Sartre and Existentialism, Volume 5: "Existentialist Ethics," edited by William McBride, Garland Publishing, 1997.

"Biblical Sexism and the Gender Identity of Children," in The Power of Gender in Religion, edited by Georgie A. Weatherby and Susan A. Farrell (New York: McGraw Hill Co., Inc., 1996), pp. 15-26.

"Fifty Years After Sartre: The Question of Authentic Jewish Identity,"in Memory, History, and Critique: European Identity at the Millennium (Proceedings of the 6th International Society for the Study of European Ideas Conference at the University for Humanist Studies, Utrecht, The Netherlands), edited by Frank Brinkhuis and Sascha Talmor, August 1996

"The Varieties of Modern and Postmodern Jewish Identity," Religious StudiesReview, July 1996, pp. 215-222

"Authenticity, Multiculturalism, and the Jewish Situation," Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, vol. 25, no. 2 (May 1994), pp. 183-188

"The Different Voices in Sartre's Ethics," Bulletin de l'Association Américaine de Philosophie de Langue Française, Fall 1992, pp. 264-280.

"Sartre's Images of the Other and the Search for Authenticity," Human Studies, 14: 251-264, 1991.

"'A Ticket to Ride,': Bourgeois Civility, Jewish Marginality, and Existential Authenticity in the Lives of Freud and Sartre," Review of Existential Psychology & Psychiatry, 19 (2 & 3): 143-159.

"Heretics, Infidels, and Apostates: Menace, Problem or Symptom?," Judaism, vol. 36, no. 1 (Winter 1987), pp. 17-33.

"Jean-Paul Sartre's Jewish Daughter: Arlette El-Kaim Sartre," Midstream, vol. 32, no. 8 (October 1986), pp. 24-28.

"From Maoism to the Talmud (With Sartre Along the Way): An Interview with Benny Levy," Commentary, December 1984, pp.48-53.

"Paul Ricoeur as Teacher: A Reminiscence," Pre/Text, vol. 4, nos. 3-4, (Fall/Winter 1983), pp. 289-294.

"Religion and the Theory of Masochism," Journal of Religion and Health, vol. 22, no. 3 (Fall 1983), pp. 221-233.

"Normative and Religious Elements in Sartre's Existential Psychoanalysis," Journal of the American Academy of Religion, vol. 50, no. 4, pp. 53-70.

"The Two I-Thou Relations in the Philosophy of Martin Buber," Harvard Theological Review, vol. 70, nos. 1-2, pp. 161-73.
 
 

               Rutgers Study Abroad Program in Israel (Haifa)
                        Director, 1993-94

                   Department of Religion, Rutgers University (Camden)
                        Department Chairperson, 1986-91, Fall 1994, 1996-97, 2001-
                        Professor, 1998-
                        Associate Professor, 1986-98
                        Assistant Professor, 1980-86
                        Visiting Lecturer, 1978-80

                   University of Chicago Divinity School
                        Research Assistant (Paul Ricoeur), 1977-78
 
 

        Karma Foundation, 2003-2004
           grant for film "Kotel:  Jewish teens on Gender and Tradition

       Center for the Study of Children and Childhood, 2000-2001
            "The Emerging Jewish Identities of Childhood and Adolescence"

       Rutgers Research Council Grant, 1996-97
                    "Religion and Gender Identity of Children"

       National Endowment for the Humanities, 1995-96
                  Fellowship for College Teachers
                      ("Religious Dimensions of Jean-Paul Sartre")

       Coolidge Research Colloquium Fellowship, 1985
                    Associates for Religion and Intellectual Life
                      ("The 'Jews for Jesus' Heresy")

       Rutgers Research Council Grant, 1984
                    ("Well-Being and Religiosity in the Aged")

       American Council of Learned Societies, 1983
                     Fellowship for Studies in Modern Society and Values
                    ("Civility vs. Vulgarity: The Social and Cultural Roots of Sartre's Thought")

       Rutgers Research Council Summer Fellowship, 1982

       National Endowment for the Humanities, 1981
     Summer Seminar Fellowship
                    ("Autobiography:  A Transdisciplinary Approach")

       University Fellowship, University of Chicago, 1977-78

       Divinity School Fellowship, University of Chicago, 1976-77, 1975-76

       Phi Beta Kappa, Columbia College, 1973

       Farband Award for Excellence in Hebrew Studies, Columbia University, 1971
 
 

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