Publications
2026
Pagis, M., & Guzmen-Carmeli, S. (Accepted/In press). Enacting religious submission: between doing religion and being done by religion. Religion. https://doi.org/10.1080/0048721X.2026.2626924
Tal, O., & Pagis, M. (2026). Prefigurative Occupational Activism: How Religion-Inspired Psychologists Transform Their Profession as a Means for Social Change. Work and Occupations, 53(1 Special Issue: Working for Social Change), 180-213. https://doi.org/10.1177/07308884251363841
2025
Pagis, M., Elbaz, A., & Ben Yair, Y. (2025). The Different Faces of Religion in Therapy: An Exploratory Qualitative Study of a Religion-Based Therapeutic Community for Addiction Recovery in Israel. Journal of Religion and Health, 64(1), 64-81. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10943-024-02152-y
Gilboa, Y., Pagis, M., & Lyons, K. (2025). Self-determination Theory as a Lens to Explore the Implementation Challenges of Telehealth. International Journal of Telerehabilitation, 16(2). https://doi.org/10.5195/ijt.2024.6648
Pagis, M. (Accepted/In press). The reflexive affirmation of tradition: popular psychology in conservative regimes. American Journal of Cultural Sociology, Article 101415. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41290-025-00258-8
Goldberg, D., & Pagis, M. (2025). Cultural Discrepancies in Interaction: Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Men Encounter Popular Psychology. Qualitative Sociology, 48(4), 609-636. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11133-025-09612-1
Pagis, M. (2025). Seeing Others: How Recognition Works—and How It Can Heal a Divided World. Contemporary Sociology, 54(6), 528-530. https://doi.org/10.1177/00943061251374867k
2023
Alfi-Nissan, S. R., & Pagis, M. (2023). Glitches in the Aspirational Discourse: Between Enterprise and Compromise1. Sociological Forum, 38(3), 708-729. https://doi.org/10.1111/socf.12935
2022
Winchester, D., & Pagis, M. (2022). Sensing the Sacred: Religious Experience, Somatic Inversions, and the Religious Education of Attention. Sociology of Religion, 83(1), 12-35. https://doi.org/10.1093/socrel/srab004
Pagis, M., & Tal, O. (2022). Collective mindfulness: Somatic attention to group and self in meditation practice in Israel. Anthropology Today, 38(2), 13-16. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8322.12708
2021
Pagis, M. (2021). American JewBu: Jews, Buddhists, and Religious Change, by EMILY SIGALOW. Sociology of Religion, 82(1), 120-122. https://doi.org/10.1093/socrel/sraa055
Pagis, M., & Winchester, D. (2021). Mediating the Sacred: Thinking Through Religious Experience in the Classics and Beyond. In Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research (pp. 301-322). (Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research). Springer Science and Business Media B.V.. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78205-4_13
Pagis, M. (2021). Transcending Locality: From Embodied Meaning to Universal Identification in Vipassana Meditation Practice in Israel. In O. Mayseless , & P. Russo-Netzer (Eds.), Finding Meaning: An Existential Quest in Post-Modern Israel (pp. 296-316). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190910358.003.0013
אלפי-ניסן, ש., גבאי-אגוזי, ל., & פגיס, מ. (2021). “להיות אור לגויים ביזמות״: אידיאל ההייטקיסט הציוני בחינוך הבית־ספרי בישראל. סוציולוגיה ישראלית: כתב-עת לחקר החברה הישראלית, 22(2), 108-127. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27083978?seq=1
Pagis, M. (2021). Inhabiting the Self-Work Romantic Utopia: Positive Psychology, Life Coaching, and the Challenge of Self-Fulfillment at Work. Work and Occupations, 48(1), 40-69. https://doi.org/10.1177/0730888420911683
Pagis, M., & Summers-Effler, E. (2021). Aesthetic Engagement*. Sociological Forum, 36(S1), 1371-1394. https://doi.org/10.1111/socf.12768
2020
Pagis, M. (2020). Embodied therapeutic culture. In D. Nehring, O. J. Madsen, E. Cabanas, C. Mills, & D. Kerrigan (Eds.), The Routledge International Handbook of Global Therapeutic Cultures (pp. 177-190). Routledge,. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429024764
Pagis, M., Tal, O., Cadge, W., & קייג', ו. (2020). החזרת הקסם לסוף החיים: מלווים רוחניים במערכת הרפואית בישראל. In S. Brill, H. Hazan, J. Cohen-Mansfield, & S. Lavi (Eds.), סוף החיים: רפואה, משפט ותרבות בישראל לנוכח פני המוות (pp. 30-48). (קו אדום). Hakibbutz Hameuchad. https://kotar.cet.ac.il/KotarApp/Viewer.aspx?nBookID=107775887#1.0.6.default
2019
Pagis, M. (2019). The Sociology of Meditation. In The Oxford Handbook of Meditation (pp. 570-589). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198808640.013.50
Pagis, M. (2019). Inward: Vipassana Meditation and the Embodiment of Self. (Fieldwork encounters and discoveries). The University of Chicago Press.
2018
Pagis, M., Cadge, W., & Tal, O. (2018). Translating Spirituality: Universalism and Particularism in the Diffusion of Spiritual Care from the United States to Israel. Sociological Forum, 33(3), 596-618. https://doi.org/10.1111/socf.12434
2017
Pagis, M., & Ailon, G. (2017). The Paradoxes of Self-Branding: An Analysis of Consultants’ Professional Web Pages. Work and Occupations, 44(3), 243-267. https://doi.org/10.1177/0730888417709327
Pagis, M., & Ailon, G. (2017). "The Paradoxes of Self¬ Branding: An Analysis of Consultants' Professional Web Pages.". Paper presented at The Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Montreal, Canada.
Pagis, M., Tal, O., & Cadge, W. (2017). What do Non-clergy Spiritual Care Providers Contribute to End of Life Care in Israel? A Qualitative Study. Journal of Religion and Health, 56(2), 614-622. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10943-016-0349-x
2016
Pagis, M. (2016). Fashioning Futures: Life Coaching and the Self-Made Identity Paradox. Sociological Forum, 31(4), 1083-1103. https://doi.org/10.1111/socf.12297
Pagis, M. (2016). Mindfulness: A Micro-sociological Perspective. Paper presented at Mindfulness on the Margins., Sussex, United Kingdom.
פגיס, מ. (2016). תרגום פסיכולוגיה חיובית למקום העבודה: האימון (קואצ'ינג) בישראל כמקרה בוחן. In ז. ברונר, & ג. פלוטקין עמרמי (Eds.), מעבר לקליניקה: השיח הפסיכולוגי בתרבות העכשווית (pp. 23-48)
2015
Pagis, M. (2015). The Interaction Order of Equanimity: A Microsociological perspective on Vipassana Meditation. Paper presented at Association for the Study of Religion Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, United States.
Pagis, M. (2015). Fashioning Futures: Life Coaching and the Self-Made Identity Paradox. Paper presented at American Sociological Association annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, United States.
Pagis, M. (2015). Evoking Equanimity: Silent Interaction Rituals in Vipassana Meditation Retreats. Qualitative Sociology, 38(1), 39-56. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11133-014-9295-7
Pagis, M. (2015). Re-enchanting the End of Life.
Pagis, M. (2015). Can the Body Forget? The Deliberate Erosion of Embodied Memories. In G. Galizia, & D. Shulman (Eds.), On Forgetting: an interdisciplinary conversation (pp. 69-81). ( Martin Buber Society of Fellows Notebook Series). Magnes Press.
Pagis, M., & Ailon, G. (2015). Professionals' Market Immersion: Self-Commodification and the Individualization of Professional Identity and Expertise. Paper presented at American Sociological Association annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, United States. https://www.asanet.org/sites/default/files/2015_annual_meeting_program_book_opt.pdf
Pagis, M. (2015). Somatic Modes of Attention: An Interactive Perspective. Paper presented at The Cultivated Spirit: Between Anthropology and Psychology., Ramat Gan, Israel.
Sabar, G., & Pagis, M. (2015). Enhancing the spirit of entrepreneurship: African labor migrants returning from Israel. Migration Studies, 3(2), 260-280. https://doi.org/10.1093/migration/mnu045
2014
Pagis, M. (2014). Passion, Self-fulfilment and the workplace: The case of life coaching in Israel. Paper presented at Israeli Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Pagis, M. (2014). Self or Not-self? Therapeutic Encounters in Vipassana Meditation Retreats. Paper presented at New Religions and Spiritualties conference, Tel Aviv, Israel.
2013
Pagis, M. (2013). Religious Self-Constitution: A Relational Perspective. In Religion on the Edge: De-centering and Re-centering the Sociology of Religion Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199938629.003.0005
Pagis, M. (2013). Can the body forget? On pain and embodied memories.
Pagis, M. (2013). Pain Relationships and the Possibility of Salvation.
Pagis, M. (2013). Consuming Individuality: The Case of Life Coaching. Paper presented at American Sociological Association Meeting, New York, United States.
2012
Pagis, M., & Sabar, G. (2012). Enhancing the Spirit of Entrepreneurship: African Labour Migrant Returning from Israel. Paper presented at American Sociological Association Meeting, Denver Colorado., United States.
Pagis, M. (2012). Religious self-constitution: A relational perspective. Paper presented at American Sociological Association Meeting, Denver Colorado., United States.
2011
Pagis, M. (2011). De-saturating the Self: Silent Interaction Rituals in Buddhist and Christian Meditation Retreats. Paper presented at American Sociological Association Meeting, Las Vegas, United States.
Pagis, M. (2011). The Promise of Salvation: A Theory of Religion. Sociology of Religion, 72(3), 375–377. https://doi.org/10.1093/socrel/srr036
Pagis, M. (2011). Beyond Habitus: The Phenomenology of Embodied Practice. Paper presented at American Sociological Association Meeting, Las Vegas, United States.
2010
Pagis, M. (2010). Producing intersubjectivity in silence: An ethnographic study of meditation practice. Ethnography, 11(2), 309-328. https://doi.org/10.1177/1466138109339041
Pagis, M. (2010). From Abstract Concepts to Experiential Knowledge: Embodying Enlightenment in a Meditation Center. Qualitative Sociology, 33(4), 469-489. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11133-010-9169-6
2009
Pagis, M. (2009). Embodied self-reflexivity. Social Psychology Quarterly, 72(3), 265-283. https://doi.org/10.1177/019027250907200308
2008
Pagis, M. (2008). Society without God: What the least religious nations can tell us about contentment. NYU Press.
2007
Pagis, M. (2007). Subjectivity: ethnographic investigations. Univ of California Press.
2003
Pagis, M., Kafkafi, N., Lipkind, D., Benjamini, Y., & Golani, I. (2003). Darting behavior: a quantitative movement pattern designed for discrimination and replicability in mouse locomotor behavior. Behavioural Brain Research.
Kafkafi, N., Pagis, M., Lipkind, D., Mayo, C. L., Bemjamini, Y., Golani, I., & Elmer, G. I. (2003). Darting behavior: A quantitative movement pattern designed for discrimination and replicability in mouse locomotor behavior. Behavioural Brain Research, 142(1-2), 193-205. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0166-4328(03)00003-2