Buy it for the smartest Oprah fan you know., "If you read it, you won't think about the connection between religion and consumer culture the same way again."- Patheos, If you read it, you won't think about the connection between religion and consumer culture the same way again., "A fascinating study of the modern-day deity's 25 years as the world's most beloved BFF, exhaustively researched and elegantly considered.
How wonderful that this book is the one to set the stage., "Budding and active scholars of cultural, popular, and religious studies will read with interest."- Library Journal, A fascinating study of the modern-day deity's 25 years as the world's most beloved BFF, exhaustively researched and elegantly considered. Not only does she break new ground in thoughtful cultural analysis of a complicated American icon, she helps to solidify the potential for a new category of interdisciplinary religious studies scholarship., Lofton's careful and engaging work is sure to warrant responses. What Lofton is advocating is that popular culture contains within it people and performances that shape religion in America., Vitally important, both as an addition to cultural studies in general, and a challenge to the question of how to study American religion. and feisty., Oprah: The Gospel of an Icon is an important addition to the study of religion in America because it takes into account the religious impact of popular media. Authorial voice is, by turns, instructing, funny, ironic, snide, brilliantly analytical, undeniably astute.
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