Oprah the gospel of an icon /

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Main Author: Lofton, Kathryn
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2011.
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Practicing purchase : the prosperity gospel of a spiritual capitalism
  • Celebrity spirit : the incorporation of your best life
  • Diverting conversions : the makeover as social rite
  • Preacher queen : the race and gender of America's confessor
  • Reading religiously : the reformations of Oprah's Book Club
  • Missionary gift : the globalization of inspiration
  • Conclusion
  • Epilogue : political spirituality, or the Oprahfication of Obama.