Anthea Butler, University of Pennsylvania
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Hi, I'm Anthea Butler, and I'm Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Graduate Chair at the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, I write and blog at Religion Dispatches , and my interests include Pentecostalism, women and religion, African American Religion, American Religion, and Religion and Popular Culture.You're here because you either agree with something I've said, or you don't.. so sit back enjoy,and if you want to drop me a line, write to me at antheadbutler@gmail.com.or follow me on Twitter at antheabutler
Read my Articles and Blog at Religion Dispatches
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?
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, April 30, 2010
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.