Sacrifice and Regeneration: Seventh-day Adventism & Religious Transformation in the Andes

Dr Yael Mabat

Lecturer at Ben Gurion University

Dr Yael Mabat is a visiting scholar at the Institute of the Americas, University College London, a post-doctoral fellow at Tel Aviv University, and a lecturer at Ben Gurion University, Israel. Her research focuses on modern Christianity in the Americas with a particular interest in transnational religious encounters and how they shaped local social, economic, and political structures. Her forthcoming book Sacrifice and Regeneration: Seventh-day Adventism and Religious Transformation in the Andes, examines the unique success of the Seventh-day Adventist missionaries in the Andean highlands. More recently she has begun working on the intersection between religion and modern medicine, primarily as manifested through the work of medical missionaries.