Mini University Conversations
Kathryn Lofton
Professor,
Religious Studies
"She’s an icon both of a female need for confirmation and affirmation, but she’s also an icon of American capitalist success."
Oprah Winfrey as an American Icon
Kathryn Lofton, Professor, Religious Studies
What is an icon? Religious Studies professor Kathryn Lofton discusses the iconography of Oprah Winfrey in terms of her marketability, her racial profile, and her moral and spiritual authority through what Lofton terms an "evangelical narrative."
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