{"id":49249,"date":"2022-02-28T16:11:12","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T21:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=49249"},"modified":"2025-08-12T15:14:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T19:14:23","slug":"laura-stein","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/profile\/laura-stein\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura Stein"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Academic Concentration<\/h5>\n<p><span>Pastoral Psychology, Psychology of Religion<\/span><\/p>\n<h5>Research Interests<\/h5>\n<p><span>My doctoral research is in the area of the psychology of religion, with special inquiry into clergy spiritual formation, virtue development, and trauma. I developed my research interests while growing up in the Reform Movement of Judaism and as a cantorial student at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. As a research fellow at the Albert and Jessie Danielsen Institute, my work explores the role of Jewish virtues in clergy\u2019s everyday social behavior, aligning DEI &amp; justice beliefs with lived experience, and ways to turn spiritual struggles into healing and thriving. I hope that this research will address inequities in Jewish systems and will help in preventing trauma and promoting human flourishing in the broader Jewish community.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5>Advisor<\/h5>\n<p>Dr. Steven Sandage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12612,"template":"","sth_faculty_type":[],"sth_phd_student_type":[412],"sth_staff_type":[],"sth_alumni_type":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/49249"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12612"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/49249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58261,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/49249\/revisions\/58261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"sth_faculty_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sth_faculty_type?post=49249"},{"taxonomy":"sth_phd_student_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sth_phd_student_type?post=49249"},{"taxonomy":"sth_staff_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sth_staff_type?post=49249"},{"taxonomy":"sth_alumni_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sth_alumni_type?post=49249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}