Following the release last week of the results of the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life's U.S. Religious Knowledge Survey,…
Kathryn Lofton
Kathryn Lofton is Lex Hixon Professor of Religious Studies and American Studies, and Professor of History and Divinity at Yale University, where she also serves as Dean of Humanities. She is the author of two books, Oprah: The Gospel of an Icon (2011) and Consuming Religion (2017), and one coedited (with Laurie Maffly-Kipp) collection, Women's Work: An Anthology of African-American Women's Historical Writings (2010).
Holding on to multiplicity
Scholars of religion (like, it seems, scholars of nearly everything animate and inanimate) have yet to decide if the world…
So you want to be a new atheist
If you want to be a New Atheist, first and foremost, you need to possess an unrelenting desire to help.…
The new gurus
In last week’s New York Times Sunday Styles section, Allen Salkin reported on the emergence of a “new wave” of…
Summer reading: Part I
Off the cuff is a new feature at The Immanent Frame, in which we pose a question to a handful…
The Oprahfication of Obama
First, you need a name. Not just any name. A weird name: a Biblical misspelling, maybe, or an invocation of…
How now, creationist?
I had a college teacher certain he had found the solution to the problem of creationists, and, at the time,…