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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).

Anthea ButlerJuly 16, 2013

The Zimmerman Acquittal: America’s Racist God

By Anthea Butler

God ain’t good all of the time.

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Anthea Butler, Sexuality/GenderJune 26, 2013

DOMA Defeat Represents “Persecution,” Some Say

By Anthea Butler

Right-wing twittersphere is aflutter with talk of “polygamy,” “pedophilia,” etc.

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Anthea ButlerDecember 19, 2012

Video: Why Huckabee & Dobson Are Wrong on Newtown

By Anthea Butler

Listen up evangelicals and conservative Christians.

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(A)theologies, Anthea ButlerDecember 17, 2012

Guns and Babies: What Newtown Does NOT Teach Us

By Anthea Butler

Listen up, conservative pundits. You can’t say that because God isn’t in a classroom, that we have reaped what we’ve sown—and then ask for guns in schools at the same time. 

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Anthea ButlerDecember 12, 2012

Racist Hanukkah

By Anthea Butler

Israel celebrates its second annual anti-immigrant rally.

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Anthea Butler, Election 2012November 7, 2012

Election Takeaway: Fake God Talk Doesn’t Cut It with Americans

By Anthea Butler

Time for a moral realignment.

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Anthea Butler, Election 2012November 2, 2012

Bishop Jenky’s Last Stand

By Anthea Butler

The “Vote Catholic” campaign.

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Anthea ButlerOctober 29, 2012

The Other Mormon Candidate

By Anthea Butler

Yes, there are Mormon Democrats.

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Anthea Butler, Election 2012September 26, 2012

Fasting For Romney

By Anthea Butler

But Mormons aren’t the only ones calling the faithful to prayer.

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Anthea Butler, Election 2012August 31, 2012

Clint Eastwood Upstages Mitt Romney with a Chair

By Anthea Butler

Why old actors need scripts.

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