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Anthea Butler

Anthea Butler is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Her most recent book is White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America (UNC Press, 2021).

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Religion Dispatches

Is Eddie Long Preparing For a Confession?

I’m not certain if I attended a church service this weekend in Atlanta, or a prizefight. Eddie Long’s defiant “But this thing I’m gon’ fight” rang out in the 10,000 seat New Birth complex amidst shouts of…
Anthea Butler
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Religion Dispatches

Republican Scandals Drag Secretive 'Family' Into the Big Time

Last week it was discovered that several powerful republicans at the heart of two sex scandals—Sens. John Ensign and Tom Coburn and Gov. Mark Sanford, among others—are members of The Family, reputed to be an “aggressively anti-democratic” Christian movement quietly steering us toward a “theocentric” state. Three scholars discuss The Family with the author. Sparks fly.
Randall Balmer
Anthea Butler
Evan Derkacz
Jeff Sharlet
Diane Winston
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Religion Dispatches

Eddie Long Case Should Mark the End of Black Church Homophobia

The problem is that the black church is obsessed with the suppression of sexuality.
Anthea Butler
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