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

Good Hair, Good God! The Divine Politics of African-American Hair

Chris Rock’s new documentary scrutinizes the politics and pathos of black hair care: from the beauty salon to the hair show, and from chemical relaxers to the Indian hair that fuels the hair weave industry.

Anthea Butler

November 4, 2009

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Religion Dispatches

Along Came a Spider: What the Pope Doesn’t See

In the official “Year for Priests,” dedicated by Pope Benedict, a priest in Florida has upped the ante on clerical malfeasance, allegedly fathering a child with a stripper, and threatening the woman with violence. What will it take for the Catholic Church to begin to take responsibility for priests gone wild?

Anthea Butler

September 30, 2009

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Religion Dispatches

Heresy, Bad Taste, or Capitalist Adventure: Is it Still Pentecostalism?

In this chronicle of mutations within the Pentecostal movement, we learn to distinguish among the Prosperity Gospel, Word of Faith, and New Apostolic Movements—and we learn why it matters.

Anthea Butler

September 14, 2009

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