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Kathryn Lofton

Kathryn Lofton (Leadership Team, Project Cycle II) is Professor of Religious Studies, American Studies, History, and Divinity at Yale University, an Editor-at-Large for The Immanent Frame, and co-curator of Frequencies. A specialist in nineteenth and twentieth-century U.S. religions, she has written on the histories of evangelicalism, consumerism, African American religion, and the academic study of religion. Her first book, Oprah: The Gospel of an Icon, was published by the University of California Press in 2011. She is currently working on several projects, including a study of sexuality and religion; an analysis of the Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.; and a religious history of Bob Dylan.

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