@article {2143,
	title = {The counterpublic of the J(ewish) Blogosphere: gendered language and the mediation of religious doubt among ultra-Orthodox Jews in New York},
	journal = {Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute },
	volume = {23},
	year = {2017},
	pages = {727-747},
	abstract = {While there have always been doubters and heretics among ultra-Orthodox Jews, access to the Internet over the past fifteen years has amplified opportunities for anonymous expression and connection. An early key platform was the Jblogosphere (Jewish Blogosphere), which flourished between 2003 and 2009. This article focuses on four Hasidic bloggers (three men and a woman) who were part of a growing counterpublic of secret religious doubters. I trace how this counterpublic challenged the authority of the ultra-Orthodox religious public sphere through gendered digital writing and reading in varieties of Yiddish and English. Linguistic resources for those engaging with the new medium of the blog became proxies for bodies that could not change without risk of expulsion. However, the counterpublic remained almost exclusively for men, reproducing the exclusion of women from the ultra-Orthodox public sphere. The analysis focuses on dynamics between gendered languages and media/semiotic ideologies in order to highlight a historical moment when the mediation of religious doubt became publicly legible, with implications for religious change for individuals and their wider communities.},
	keywords = {Blogosphere, Jewish, language, mediation, religious, ultra Orthodox Jews},
	url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1467-9655.12697},
	author = {Fader, A}
}
@article {2146,
	title = {Ultra-Orthodox Jewish interiority, the Internet, and the crisis of faith},
	journal = {Journal of Ethnographic Theory },
	volume = {7},
	year = {2017},
	abstract = {This article argues for a recuperation of interiority. Rather than conflate interiority with belief, as immaterial and individualized, research with ultra-Orthodox Jews in New York reveals interiority to be as public and political as is the material. Over the past fifteen years, ultra-Orthodox Jews have been increasingly concerned with religious doubt. Many communal leaders have called the current moment {\textquotedblleft}a crisis of faith,{\textquotedblright} with the perception that there are new challenges to ultra-Orthodoxy, especially from the Internet. In response, leaders have turned to explicit communal talk about interiority in their attempts to strengthen faith and therapeutically treat those with religious doubts. Public talk, where certain forms and locations of interiority are cultivated and others disciplined, shows efforts by ultra-Orthodox leadership to defuse the power of secular epistemologies, such as psychology and technologies, while harnessing their potentialities for religious authenticity},
	keywords = {digital media, interiority, Judaism, language, religion, technology, Ultra-Orthodox Jewish},
	url = {https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.14318/hau7.1.016},
	author = {Fader, A}
}
