Anthea Butler - Activism and Jesuit Education in the Age of Black Lives Matter, Race, and Nationalism
Thursday, 29 October, 2020
The 2020-21 Humanities Forum
Anthea Butler is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Africana Studies at
the University of Pennsylvania. Her books include Women in the Church of God in
Christ: Making A Sanctified World. Her current projects include, White Evangelical
Racism: The Politics of Morality in America, out in March 2021, and Reading Race:
How Publishing created a lifeline for Black Baptists in Post Reconstruction America.
Professor Butler currently serves as President Elect of the American Society for
Church history, and is also member of the American Academy of Religion,
American Historical Association, and the International Communications
Association. She is also on the Board of Trustees for Loyola Baltimore. Professor
Butler regularly writes opinion pieces covering religion, race, politics and popular
culture for The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, NBC, and The
Guardian
Thursday,October 29 at 7pm
Register on Zoom: https://bit.ly/374npKR
Gail and Francis Slattery Center for Humanities