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Anthony Petro

Anthony M. Petro is Assistant Professor of Religion at Boston University, where he is also affiliated faculty in the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program and the Graduate Division of Religious Studies. His research and teaching interests include the history and politics of religion in the United States; gender and sexuality studies; the history of the HIV/AIDS crisis; and religion, medicine, and public health. Check out a quiz he wrote for the Oxford University Press blog on American religion in the 1980s here.

(A)theologies, Archive, New Books, RD10Q, Remapping American Christianities, Sexuality/GenderAugust 2, 2015

How AIDS Changed the Way American Christians Talk About Sex

By Anthony Petro

A Q&A with Anthony Petro on his new book, the first history of religion and the AIDS crisis in the U.S.

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(A)theologiesOctober 29, 2009

Smelling a Secular Funk: Debating the Power of Religion in The Public Sphere

By Anthony Petro

A supergroup of philosophers gathered in New York last week to talk about religion and public life, about the “centrality of the catastrophic” in today’s political context, and about considering the “uncommon” as opposed to “common ground” as a basis for ethics.

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