Anthea Butler C.V.
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Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Graduate Chair of Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania, September 2009-current
Research Associate and Colorado Scholar, Women’s Study in Religion Program, Harvard Divinity School September 2008-June 2009
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, July 2005-current
Associate Director, University Honors Program, Loyola Marymount University, September 2004-May 2005
Postdoctoral Fellow in Race, Religion, and Gender, Center for the Study of Religion, Princeton University, 2001-2002
Assistant Professor of Theological Studies, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA. August, 1999- May 2005
Education
Ph.D. Religion, Vanderbilt University, 2001
M.A. Religion, Vanderbilt University,
M.A. Theology, Fuller Theological Seminary
Forthcoming Book
The Gospel According To Sarah; How Sarah Palin and the Tea Party are galvanizing the Religious Right The New Press, est. publication date May 2012
Books
Women in the Church of God in Christ: Making A Sanctified World, University of North Carolina Press, 2007.
Articles
Where Nowhere Becomes Sacred: The Mojave Desert Cross and Sacred Space: Material Religion: The Journal of Art, Objects and Belief 2010
Media, Pentecost and Prosperity: The Racial Meaning Behind the Aesthetic: Pneuma: The Journal of the Society of Pentecostal Studies (submitted, forthcoming)
Religion and Media in Africa: Oxford Handbook on Religion and the News (submitted, forthcoming)
Writing History as a Believer: Response to Noll, Bushman, Gregory in Fides et Historia Journal, (submitted, forthcoming)
“A Vagina Ain’t a Halo”: Gender and Religion in Saving Grace and Battlestar Galatica”,
Anthea Butler and Diane Winston, in Small Screen, Picture: Lived Religion and Television (Baylor, 2009)
Areas of Teaching Competence Primary: African American Religious History, American Religious History, Women and Religion in America, Pentecostalism, Women and Religion, Fundamentalisms, Religion and Civil Rights, Religion and Social Movements
Secondary: Religion in the African Diaspora, Sociology of Religion, Theory and method in Religious Studies, History of Global Christianity
Professional Organizations
American Academy of Religion
American Society of Church History
American Historical Association
Society for the Study of Black Religion
American Studies Association
Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Graduate Chair of Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania, September 2009-current
Research Associate and Colorado Scholar, Women’s Study in Religion Program, Harvard Divinity School September 2008-June 2009
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, July 2005-current
Associate Director, University Honors Program, Loyola Marymount University, September 2004-May 2005
Postdoctoral Fellow in Race, Religion, and Gender, Center for the Study of Religion, Princeton University, 2001-2002
Assistant Professor of Theological Studies, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA. August, 1999- May 2005
Education
Ph.D. Religion, Vanderbilt University, 2001
M.A. Religion, Vanderbilt University,
M.A. Theology, Fuller Theological Seminary
Forthcoming Book
The Gospel According To Sarah; How Sarah Palin and the Tea Party are galvanizing the Religious Right The New Press, est. publication date May 2012
Books
Women in the Church of God in Christ: Making A Sanctified World, University of North Carolina Press, 2007.
Articles
Where Nowhere Becomes Sacred: The Mojave Desert Cross and Sacred Space: Material Religion: The Journal of Art, Objects and Belief 2010
Media, Pentecost and Prosperity: The Racial Meaning Behind the Aesthetic: Pneuma: The Journal of the Society of Pentecostal Studies (submitted, forthcoming)
Religion and Media in Africa: Oxford Handbook on Religion and the News (submitted, forthcoming)
Writing History as a Believer: Response to Noll, Bushman, Gregory in Fides et Historia Journal, (submitted, forthcoming)
“A Vagina Ain’t a Halo”: Gender and Religion in Saving Grace and Battlestar Galatica”,
Anthea Butler and Diane Winston, in Small Screen, Picture: Lived Religion and Television (Baylor, 2009)
Areas of Teaching Competence Primary: African American Religious History, American Religious History, Women and Religion in America, Pentecostalism, Women and Religion, Fundamentalisms, Religion and Civil Rights, Religion and Social Movements
Secondary: Religion in the African Diaspora, Sociology of Religion, Theory and method in Religious Studies, History of Global Christianity
Professional Organizations
American Academy of Religion
American Society of Church History
American Historical Association
Society for the Study of Black Religion
American Studies Association