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).

Essays

So you want to be a new atheist

Kathryn Lofton | November 16, 2009

The new gurus

Courtney Bender, Donna Schaper, Elizabeth McAlister, Mara E. Donaldson, Melani McAlister, Michele Dillon, Carl Raschke and Kathryn Lofton | September 27, 2009

Summer reading: Part I

Colin Jager, Simon During, John R. Bowen, Kathryn Lofton and Winnifred Fallers Sullivan | August 31, 2009

The Oprahfication of Obama

Kathryn Lofton | January 19, 2009

How now, creationist?

Kathryn Lofton | September 23, 2008

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