The Centre for American Studies welcomes visiting Professor Kathryn Lofton, specialist in religious studies at Yale, who will be speaking on religion and American life on Thursday, 31st July at 1:30pm.
Kathryn Lofton is a historian of religion with a particular focus on the cultural and intellectual history of the United States. Her archival expertise is in the post-Civil War era, but her research draws upon the histories and anthropology of religions in the U.S. from pre-contact to the present in order to elucidate the meanings of and relationships between religion, modernity, and the secular.