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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

Evander Holyfield Allegedly Beats Wife. Reason? Tithing.

Boxer’s wife obtains temporary restraining order.
Anthea Butler
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Missionary Imposition: Idaho Baptists Charged With Kidnapping 33 Haitian Children

Had the inexperienced Idaho missionaries read so much as Haiti’s Wikipedia page they would have learned that the nation has a history of slavery, colonialism, and missions that warns against attempts to remove Haitian children from their home.
Anthea Butler
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Religion Dispatches

Disney’s Lump of Coal

Disney’s The Princess and the Frog picks up where Katrina left off. The movie is a wholesale desecration of New Orleans, Creole culture, Cajun culture, religion, zydeco, and even Louis Armstrong.
Anthea Butler
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