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Summary Yale Professor Kathryn Lofton calls Oprah Winfrey a religious icon in her book.
In her book, Oprah: The Gospel of an Icon’, Lofton writes that Winfrey utilizes the same rhythmic speech patterns used by southern preachers and employs a sermon-like structure for each show. She claims to have studied the transcripts for nearly every episode of Winfreys show for the last 12 years -- over 1,560 of them -- as well as 105 issues of O magazine, 17 issues of O at Home, 68 books from Oprahs Book Club and 52 Spirit Newsletters.
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