Professor Butler is a historian of American and African American Religion, specializing in African American Religious History, Evangelicalism, Pentecostalism, Gender, and Religion and Popular culture. She holds a PhD. From Vanderbilt University, and her most recent book is entitled: Women in the Church of God in Christ: Making A Sanctified World, available from the University of North Carolina Press. The book is a history of the Women’s Department of the Church of God in Christ (COGIC), chronicling African American Pentecostal women’s engagement with both the civic and religious realms in the 20th century. Professor Butler was recently was featured as a guest scholar and consultant for an April 2007 segment of the PBS series AMERICAN EXPERIENCE on Pentecostal healing evangelist and media personality Aimee Semple McPherson. She has also appeared on the History Channel, and has been featured on WXXI, NPR, Speaking of Faith, and other television and media outlets throughout the United States. She is also an occasional contributor to The REVEALER, an on-line journal of Religion and media from New York University and is editor of the online journal The North Star: A Journal of African American Religion and History.

Anthea on Sarah Palin, VP nominees religious faith

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