Anthea Butler is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Graduate Chair of Religion at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA.
A Contributing Editor and Blogger at Religion Dispatches, Professor Butler's research interests include Religion and Politics, Religion and Popular Culture, Women and Religion, Pentecostalism, sexuality, and African American Religion.
Follow me at TWITTER @antheabutler
What's on my mind right now: Religion and the 2012 Elections, Sarah Palin; Republican party and Religion; Catholic Church Sex abuse scandals; Women's reproductive rights and political action; 2012 and Mayan Calendar.
A Contributing Editor and Blogger at Religion Dispatches, Professor Butler's research interests include Religion and Politics, Religion and Popular Culture, Women and Religion, Pentecostalism, sexuality, and African American Religion.
Follow me at TWITTER @antheabutler
What's on my mind right now: Religion and the 2012 Elections, Sarah Palin; Republican party and Religion; Catholic Church Sex abuse scandals; Women's reproductive rights and political action; 2012 and Mayan Calendar.
COMING IN LATE SPRING 2012:
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO SARAH: HOW SARAH PALIN'S TEA PARTY ANGELS ARE GALVANIZING THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT
Read my Articles and Blog at Religion Dispatches
Watch the New Birth Throne: Eddie Long Crowned King of New Birth
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
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
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.