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Anthea Butler

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Anthea Butler is Geraldine R. Segal Professor in American Social Thought and chair of the department of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. A historian of African American and American religion, Professor Butler’s research and writing spans African American religion and history, race, politics, Evangelicalism, gender and sexuality, media, and popular culture. Her most recent book is White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America, published by Ferris and Ferris/UNC Press. Prof Butler is the 2022 winner of the Martin E. Marty Award for the Public Understanding of Religion from the American Academy of Religion. She currently serves as President of the American Society for Church history.