Oprah's Diverting Conversions: The Makeover as Social Rite

Please join the Religious Studies Club for a free public lecture on "Oprah's Diverting Conversions: The Makeover as Social Rite." Dr. Kathryn Lofton of Yale University will discuss how religious studies methodologies illuminate the Oprah Winfrey phenomena and its combination of entertainment, self-impovement, and consumerism.  Thursday, October 20, 7:00 PM in Umphrey-Lee 241.