Skip to main content

Kathryn Lofton

Kathryn Lofton is Professor of Religious Studies, American Studies, History and Divinity at Yale University where she also serves as Deputy Dean of Diversity and Faculty Development and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies.

Articles

Religion Dispatches
When asked to write about McCain’s religion I thought I’d review the alignment between the American military and American religions. What I found is as much about what the American public needs to hear about religion as it was about what McCain felt or thought about religion.
Article
Religion Dispatches
What inspired you to write Consuming Religion? Restlessness. After I finished my first book, I realized quickly that I left several major questions without satisfying answers. First, why does…
Article
Religion Dispatches
Why didn’t Mitt Romney provide an account of himself that reckoned with the very things we find so uncanny about him, namely his unmitigated embrace of capital, procreation, and country clubs?
Article