Anthea Butler, University of Pennsylvania
Welcome!
Hi! I'm Anthea Butler, Professor of Religious Studies and Graduate Chair of Religion at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA.
I write and blog at Religion Dispatches , and my interests include Religion and Politics, Religion and Popular Culture, Black Church, Pentecostalism, prosperity gospel, sexuality, and African American Religion. You're here because you either agree with something I've said, or you don't.
If you want to drop me a line, follow me at TWITTER @antheabutler or write me at antheadbutler@gmail.com
What's Hot Now: 2012 Elections, The Faith of the Candidates (Mormon, Evangelical, Catholic and Pentecostal), Catholic Church sex scandals, and the impact of Religion, democracy, and the Arab Spring.
My upcoming book project (slated for publication Spring 2012) will be on Religion, Tea Party and Sarah Palin: Watch this space for more details this fall!!
Media:
CNN Faces of Faith: Differences in Mormonism and other Faiths
MSNBC The Rapture, May 21st , and the "End of the World"
FOX PHILLY: Should the President release the Bin Laden death Picture?
Guardian UK: Bishop Eddie Long's Long Reach
Being Blog: Parsing the Power of Eddie Long And the Black Church
NPR: Allegations Revisit Church's Stance on Homosexuality
I write and blog at Religion Dispatches , and my interests include Religion and Politics, Religion and Popular Culture, Black Church, Pentecostalism, prosperity gospel, sexuality, and African American Religion. You're here because you either agree with something I've said, or you don't.
If you want to drop me a line, follow me at TWITTER @antheabutler or write me at antheadbutler@gmail.com
What's Hot Now: 2012 Elections, The Faith of the Candidates (Mormon, Evangelical, Catholic and Pentecostal), Catholic Church sex scandals, and the impact of Religion, democracy, and the Arab Spring.
My upcoming book project (slated for publication Spring 2012) will be on Religion, Tea Party and Sarah Palin: Watch this space for more details this fall!!
Media:
CNN Faces of Faith: Differences in Mormonism and other Faiths
MSNBC The Rapture, May 21st , and the "End of the World"
FOX PHILLY: Should the President release the Bin Laden death Picture?
Guardian UK: Bishop Eddie Long's Long Reach
Being Blog: Parsing the Power of Eddie Long And the Black Church
NPR: Allegations Revisit Church's Stance on Homosexuality
Read my Articles and Blog at Religion Dispatches
Palin's Prayer Shield
Glenn Beck's Road To Jerusalem
Eddie Long Case Should Mark the End of Black Church Homophobia
The Black Church is Dead: Long Live the Black Church
Training God's Rottweiler: Catholic Church Sexual Abuse Must End
Missionary Imposition
Biblical Disaster In Haiti
Good Hair, Good God!!!
Is it still Pentecostalism?
Glenn Beck's Road To Jerusalem
Eddie Long Case Should Mark the End of Black Church Homophobia
The Black Church is Dead: Long Live the Black Church
Training God's Rottweiler: Catholic Church Sexual Abuse Must End
Missionary Imposition
Biblical Disaster In Haiti
Good Hair, Good God!!!
Is it still Pentecostalism?
Is The Black Church Dead Part II on Tell Me More, NPR
Click Below to listen to my response to Eddie Glaude's article in Huffington Post on the Black Church is Dead
Listen to me on NPR, Interfaith Voices, and other media outlets(click the italics!)
Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church, Am1690 Atlanta, David Lewis Show
Interfaith Voices April 2010: The State of the Black Church in America
Christians with Guns: Bloggingheads Video New York Times
Catholic Church Scandal
Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church, Am1690 Atlanta, David Lewis Show
Interfaith Voices April 2010: The State of the Black Church in America
Christians with Guns: Bloggingheads Video New York Times
Catholic Church Scandal
My Recent Book from UNC PRESS
Women in the Church of God in Christ
Making a Sanctified World
By Anthea D. Butler
The Church of God in Christ (COGIC), an African American Pentecostal denomination founded in 1896, has become the largest Pentecostal denomination in the United States today. In this first major study of the church, Anthea Butler examines the religious and social lives of the women in the COGIC Women's Department from its founding in 1911 through the mid-1960s. She finds that the sanctification, or spiritual purity, that these women sought earned them social power both in the church and in the black community.
Making a Sanctified World
By Anthea D. Butler
The Church of God in Christ (COGIC), an African American Pentecostal denomination founded in 1896, has become the largest Pentecostal denomination in the United States today. In this first major study of the church, Anthea Butler examines the religious and social lives of the women in the COGIC Women's Department from its founding in 1911 through the mid-1960s. She finds that the sanctification, or spiritual purity, that these women sought earned them social power both in the church and in the black community.