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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.

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Religion Dispatches

The Gray Lady’s Regard: Ritual and the Wedding Pages

The New York Times Wedding/Celebration pages are pure periodical porn, invoking a cascade of genealogies and an overabundance of fortune. Religion is a whispered aside; and what of love?
Kathryn Lofton
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Sarah Vowell’s The Wordy Shipmates: The Problem with Popularization

While the history of popularization is a history of regular folk learning about other regular revolutionizing folk and imitating them, comic book histories like The Wordy Shipmates do their part in ensuring that the next generation knows more about Beyoncé than Byzantium.
Kathryn Lofton
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Religion Dispatches

Travolta Tragedy: Don't Blame L. Ron Hubbard

John Travolta’s 16-year-old son is found dead and our celebrity culture is quick to blame the religion of his parents, Scientology. So much harder to face the fact of death, to look beyond the spectacle of someone else’s tragedy and toward our own frailty and error.
Kathryn Lofton
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