Michelle Lelwica is an associate professor of religion at Concordia College in Moorhead, Minn. She is the author of Starving for Salvation: The Spiritual Dimensions of Eating Problems Among American Girls and Women and The Religion of Thinness: Satisfying the Spiritual Hungers Behind Women’s Obsession With Food and Weight. She wrote a commentary for Newsweek and The Washington Post linking the quests for thinness and salvation. She can discuss the Christian diet movement and the quasi-religious nature of our culture’s obsession with thinness.
| Website | https://www.concordiacollege.edu/directories/faculty-staff/detail/dr-michelle-m-lelwica/ |
| Email address | lelwica@cord.edu |
| Phone number | 218-299-3437 |
| Categories | Beliefs & practices, education, Gender & sexuality, Science & health, Society & culture |
| Locations | Minnesota, United States of America |
| Resource Types | Sources |
| Faiths | Christianity |
| Languages | English |