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

Bristol Palin Bags Baby Daddy

Sarah Palin’s daughter and Levi Johnston to tie the knot: but will they still be role models for evangelicals?

Anthea Butler

July 15, 2010

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Religion Dispatches

Obama’s Religion Ambassador: Inexperienced?

President Obama has nominated the Rev. Dr. Suzan Johnson Cook to be Ambassador-At-Large for International Religious Freedom. But her resumé, with no discernible international policy experience, her close ties to the former Clinton administration, and several ill-defined business ventures, suggest that President Obama cares little about supporting religious freedom around the world.

Anthea Butler

June 23, 2010

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