In addition to The Religion of Thinness, Dr. Michelle Lelwica is
also the author of Starving for Salvation: The Spiritual Dimensions
of Eating Problems among American Girls and Women (Oxford, 1999),
which is an academic analysis of the religious and cultural
underpinnings of eating disorders and related problems.
Additionally, she has published a number of scholarly articles,
delivered papers, and lectured widely on the role of religion and
spirituality in women’s relationships with food and their
bodies.
She is currently Associate Professor in the Religion Department at
Concordia College—Moorhead, MN where she teaches classes that deal
with embodiment, mindfulness, religion, gender, and cultural
critique. She studied religion at Harvard Divinity School, where
she received her Doctorate of Theology (ThD) in the area of
Religion, Gender, and Culture in 1996.
Michelle lives with her husband and two children in northern
Minnesota. She is motivated by the dream of creating a world in
which the bodies and spirits of all people—and all beings—are
loved, nurtured, and respected not in spite of but because of their
marvelous diversity.
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