Illiberal Religious Momfluencers: The Political Language of Wellness

Robert Seltzer Series

Illiberal Religious Momfluencers: The Political Language of Wellness

This talk examines illiberal Jewish and Christian women Instagram influencers who focus on wellness, domesticity, and motherhood. Using digital ethnography and interviews, Fader explores where and how influencers inspire each other and interact, elaborating a political illiberal religious women’s authority that creates change, while imagining a new public space for illiberal religion in the US today.

AYALA FADER is Professor of Anthropology at Fordham University. She is the author of the award-winning books, MItzvah Girls: Bringing Up the Next Generation of Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn and Hidden Heretics: Jewish Doubt in the Digital Age. Fader is also the founding director of the New York Center for Public Anthropology and the Demystifying Language Project, a research and social justice initiative that makes linguistic anthropology available to public high schools.

This lecture will also be available live on Zoom. Link sent upon registration.

Boxed lunch provided in person.

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