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Updated November 2019Anthea D. ButlerAssociate Professor of Religion and Africana StudiesDepartment of Religious Studies201 Claudia Cohen Hall249 S. 36th StreetPhiladelphia, PA r@gmail.comAcademic Appointments2019-2020Presidential Fellow, Yale Divinity School2009Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Africana Studies,University of Pennsylvania2017-2020Graduate Chair of Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania,2008-2009Research Associate and Colorado Scholar, Women’s Study in Religion ProgramHarvard Divinity School2005-2008Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, University of Rochester2004-2005Associate Director, University Honors Program, Loyola Marymount University,2001-2002Postdoctoral Fellow in Race, Religion, and Gender, Center for the Study ofReligion, Princeton University1999-2005Assistant Professor of Theological Studies, Loyola Marymount UniversityEducation2001200019951983Ph.D. Religion, Vanderbilt UniversityM.A. Religion, Vanderbilt UniversityM.A. Theology, Fuller Theological SeminaryB.A. Marketing, University of Houston at Clear LakeBooksWomen in the Church of God in Christ: Making A Sanctified World, University of NorthCarolina Press, 2007.Reviewed in Religious Studies Review, Journal of American Academy of Religion, ChurchHistory, Journal of Southern Religion, Pneuma, A.M.E Church Review, Journal of AmericanHistory, Florida Historical Quarterly, Choice
Refereed Articles“African American Conservatives in the Age of Obama” in Faith in the New Millennium,Matthew A. Sutton and Darren Dochuk, Oxford University Press, Fall 2015 p. 59-73“From Republican Party to Republican Religion: The New Political Evangelists of the Right”Political Theology, Vol 13, No 5 Fall 2012Work in ProgressReading Race: Hope, Religion, Education and Interracial Cooperation 1880-1917. (UNC Press)America’s Racist God: Race, Nationalism, and the Evangelical Dilemma- under reviewBlessed and Highly Favored: Prosperity Gospel as a Nigerian Political and Social network.Luce/ACLS Grant, Religion and International JournalismThe Mormon Octopus: American Baptist Home Missions to Mormons in Utah in the late 19thand early 20th Century” revising for submissionJournal Essays and Book ChaptersSpace is all there is, The Immanent Frame March 16, 2018“Studying Religion in the Age of Trump”, Religion and American Culture, Volume 27, Number1, Winter 2017 pp. 12-16“The Black Church: From Prophecy to Prosperity” Dissent, a Quarterly of Politics and Culture,Winter 2014, p 38-40“Jeremiads in the Age of Obama”, Oxford African American Study Center” Fall 2012 (online)“Religion and Reporting in Africa”: Oxford Handbook of Religion and the American NewsMedia, 2012Where Nowhere Becomes Sacred: The Mojave Desert Cross and Sacred Space: MaterialReligion: The Journal of Art, Objects and Belief Volume 7 Number 2 July 2011 pp. 272-274Media, Pentecost and Prosperity: The Racial Meaning Behind the Aesthetic: Pneuma: TheJournal of the Society of Pentecostal Studies vol 33, No 2 2011, p 271-276Writing History as a Believer: Response to Noll, Bushman, Gregory, Fides et Historia, Volume43, No. 2, Summer/Fall 20112
“A Vagina Ain’t a Halo”: Gender and Religion in Saving Grace and Battlestar Galatica”,Anthea Butler and Diane Winston, in Small Screen, Picture: Lived Religion and Television(Baylor, 2009)“As Sheep without a Shepherd: A Retrospective” Journal of Southern Religion Vol. XI, Unrespectable Saints: Women of the Church of God in Christ” in Women and AmericanReligion: Reimagining the Past, Catherine Brekus, Ed. University of North Carolina Press, 2007“Only a Woman Would Do: Bible Reading and African American Women’s Organizing Work”in Women and Religion in the African Diaspora, R. Marie Griffith and Barbara Savage, ed.Johns Hopkins Press, 2006“Observing the Lives of the Saints: Sanctification as Practice in the Church of God in Christ” inPracticing Protestants: Histories of American Christian Practice, Leigh Schmidt, LaurieMafflyKipp, and Mark Valeri, ed., Johns Hopkins Press, 2006)“Constructing Different Memories: Recasting the Azusa Street Revival” in The Azusa StreetRevival and its Legacy, Harold D. Hunter and Cecil M. Robeck Jr. ed., Pathway Press, 2006“Garveyism and Women” in Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America, ed.Rosemary Skinner Keller and Rosemary Radford Ruther. Indiana University Press 2005.“Pentecostal Traditions We Should Pass On: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly”, Pneuma: TheJournal for the Society for Pentecostal Studies, Spring 2006“Teaching a Disaster” Inside Higher Education September 12, 2/teaching-disaster“Church Mothers and Migration in the Church of God in Christ” in Religion in the AmericanSouth: Protestants and Others in History and Culture, Donald Matthews and Beth BartonSchweiger, editors. University of North Carolina Press, 2004.“National Baptist Convention of America”, “National Baptist Convention U.S.A” inEncyclopedia of Protestantism, Ed. Hans J. Hillerbrand, Routledge, 2003.“Facets of Pentecostal Spirituality and Justice” in Consultation with Pentecostals in theAmericas, (World Council of Churches, 1996)3
Book Review EssayA Scholar in Zion, Sister Saints: Mormon Women Since the End of Polygamy, ColleenMcDaniel, Oxford University Press, 2019. in Mormon Studies Review, v 7, 2020, p 61-72Mormon Feminism: Essential Writings, Joanna Brooks, Rachel Hunt Steenblick, Taylor G.Petrey, ed. Oxford University Press, 2016. Mormon Studies Review Vol. 4, 2017 pp. 99-103Book ReviewsPassionately Human, No Less Divine: Religion and Culture in Black Chicago 1915-1952.Wallace Best, Church History, Spring 2007.Pentecostal Currents in American Protestantism, Edith Blumhofer, Russell P. Spittler, and GrantA. Wacker, Editors. Religious Studies Review, July 2000African American Religious History: A Documentary Witness, Milton Sernett. H-Net BookReviews June 2000, H -Amrel.See: http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path 26239966983246Godly Women: Fundamentalism and Female Power, Church History, December 1998Conjuring Culture: Biblical Formations of Black America, Pneuma, Spring, 1998PresentationsHumanities Horizon Lecture, “Irish Slaves in America: Myths, History, and the problems ofSocial Media,” Trinity College Dublin, October 1, 20192019 Smith Petit Lecture, Mormon Historical Association, “An American Church in theModernizing World: The LDS church in the Crucible of Change 1950-1970, June 2019"Making it Rain: Weddings, Prosperity, and Consumption in Nigeria,” InternationalCommunications Association, Washington D.C. May 2019Plenary Panel, “Global Populism, Its Roots in Media and Religion,” InternationalCommunication Association, Washington, D.C. May 2019The Durfee Lecture, “Prophets, Profits and Pain: The Politics of the Prosperity Gospel inNigeria,” American University, March 2019The Matthew and Jonathan Marshall Speaker on Religion and Conflict “Prosperity, Politics, andPentecostal Power in Nigeria,” Arizona State University, January 24, 20194
Prosperity and Power in Lagos: Pentecostalism and the Reframing of Nigeria, Trinity CollegeDublin, December 2018“Prosperity, Sex, and Politics: Evangelicals Changing Mission to the World” Global Faith andWorldly Power: Evangelical Encounters with American Empire, Keynote Address, ObamaInstitute, Johannes- Gutenberg University, Mainz October 2018Keynote Address “Religion and Public Scholarship in the Age of Anger”, International Societyfor Media, Religion, and Culture, August 2018"Say Twitter, Somebody: Race, Black Lives Matter, and Hypermediated Moments" InternationalCommunications Association, Prague, May 2018Richard and Cindy Connell Lecture, “Evangelicals in Crisis: Race, Politics and the Soul of aMovement,” Lehigh University, March 2018“God or Guts: Populism and Organizing for Civil Rights in the 21st century.”Populism and Religion: The American Case, Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life,Columbia University March 2018“The Freedom Seder- 49 years later” Center for Jewish History, March 2018Preaching with Power Lecture, “Black Lives Matter and Crisis,” Lutheran Theological SeminaryMarch 201825th Annual MLK Lecture “How to get through Perilous Times,” Loyola Baltimore, January2018“Cyber Abuse in the Academy” NewsXchange conference, European Broadcasting Union,Amsterdam, Netherlands, November 2017"Caught in the Tentacles: American Baptist Home Missions to Mormons in Utah in the Late 19thand Early 20th Century." Maxwell Institute, Brigham Young University, October 10, 2017James J. Gallagher Memorial Lecture “But Her Emails: Women, Religion and Politics in the2016 Election: Where Do We Go from here? Albright College September 28, 2017"Hope, Material Religion and African American Homeschooling in the late 19th century"Religious Studies Department, Vanderbilt University, March 20175
Judith Roth Berkowitz Lecture “Intersectionality at a Crossroads: Race, Feminism, and TheTrials of Social Media,” University of Pennsylvania, February 28, 2017"Controversy: Prince as Prophet " Blackstar Rising: Celebrating the Legacies of David Bowieand Prince, January 25-28, 2017 Yale UniversityGeddes W. Hanson Lecture “Remaining Awake Through A Great Revolution: From King toKendrick Lamar", Princeton Theological Seminary, December 1,2016Weber Lecture “The Fire This Time: Racism and American Christianity” , New YorkTheological Seminary, October 6, 2016Keynote Speaker, "Race and America's original Sin": Montreat Conference Center, PresbyterianChurch of America, October 11, 2016"Black Twitter, Politics and Public Theology" International Society of Media Religion andCulture Conference, Seoul, Korea, August 2016Sacred Meetings and Monuments: Media and Outdoor Religious Rallies in America 1952-2010:International Society of Media Religion and Culture Conference, Seoul, Korea August 2016(Presented with my graduate student Gabriel Raeburn)“What is African American Religion: An Alternative History of African American Religion,”The Future of the African American Past Conference, National Museum of African AmericanHistory and Culture, May 19-22, 2016AME Bicentennial Celebration: A General Conference of Freedom’s Prophets, Social JusticeForum April 8, 2016“Women’s Empowerment and Social Justice” NAACP Spring Gala, Bryn Mawr, March 26,2016Future of Black America Conference, Real Problems, Real Solutions: Philadelphia Tribune,Philadelphia, Pa, March 24, 2016Engaging Race Forum, Carter G. Woodson Institute University of Virginia, August 27, 2015Settles Lecture "Use Me Instead: Clergy, Religion and the New Civil Rights Movement,”Austin Presbyterian Seminary, March 26, 20156
International Women's Day Lecture “The Price they Pay: Women Religion and Freedom in the21st Century,” Hollins University, March 3, 2015Kirk Lectureship "Ignorance is Not Bliss: Understanding Religion in the 21st Century"University of Denver, February 12, 2015A "New": History of Evangelicalism-Black Evangelicals and American Evangelicalism, FullerSeminary, William J. Pannell Retirement Celebration, January 28, 2015A Not-So Quiet Night in Sleepy Hollow: Television's Reimagining of Race, Gender, Religion,Politics, and the Apocalypse" American Academy of Religion, November 22, 2014Africana/Americana: Race Politics and the Making of American Religious Histories (Presiderand Presenter) American Academy of Religion November 23, 2014The Resurrection of African American Conservatives, Religion and Politics in the 21st Century,SMU and Danforth Center on Religion and Politics, November 6, 2014Goodspeed Lecture, “From Republican Party to Republican Religion: How the Religious Rightmoved from the margins to the center of political action,” Dennison University April 10, 2014Martin Luther King Jr Lectureship “King, Pope Francis and Poverty: The Poor People’sCampaign for the 21st Century,” Villanova University January 27, 2014Home Missions Photography and Respectability: Modeling Race in the late 19th centuryRace and Religion in American History, Princeton University, March 7, 2014The Spirit of Evil, San Francisco Theological Seminary, Muilenburg-Koenig History of ReligionWorkshop, Feb 23-24, 2014The Black Church and Politics in the Age of Obama: Danforth Center for Religion and Politics,Washington University, September 2, 2013Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture- Martin Luther King Jr. and America’s Bad Check: America’sPoor in the 20th Century and “The Price they Pay: Women Religion and Freedom in the 21stCentury,” Bates College, Maine. January 20-21, 20132012 Cole Lectures, “Whitewashing the Past: The Religious Right and the Quest to ReframeAmerican History.” and “Race Religion and the American Project,” Vanderbilt UniversityOctober 25-26, 2012.7
“The Republican Party, the Tea Party and the Southern Strategy” Vanderbilt Religious HistoryColloquium: March 2012"The Gospel of Sarah: Sarah Palin and The Tea Party Re-Write the Republican Playbook”Haverford College, October 2011“Migration, African American Women and the Urban Space” Society for the Study of BlackReligion: April 2011"Secret Weapons: Conservative Women of Faith and Political Action." Rutgers UniversityWomen's conference, March 2011“Televangelism and Sexuality” Yale Divinity School Transnational Dimensions of BlackReligion Conference, March 2011Preaching with Power Series "The Next Episode," Lutheran School of Theology, March 2011"Is the Black Church Dead" Columbia: Institute for Research in African American StudiesOctober 2010Roland Bainton Lecture: Reformation in Black: African American Women and Bible Reading inthe Late 19th Century." Yale Divinity School. September 2010“Hijab's, Habits and Harlots: Women, Religion, and the Media”Harvard Women's Study in Religion Program, New York May 19, 2010Harschbarger Lectureship, “Does God Want you to be Rich? The Cost of Pentecost, ProsperityGospel and the Crash,” Penn State, April 15, 2010Lyman Coleman Fund, “Women, Religion and Politics: Clinton, Obama, Palin, and archetypesof the American Religious Woman,” Lafayette College, Easton, PA. March 2, 2010“In the Absence of the Theoretical: Positing a Direction for African American ReligiousHistory” American Academy of Religion, Critical Theory and Discourses on Religion Section,November 2009From Power Signs to Dollar Signs: Prosperity and Power among Pentecostals in the 21stsCentury European Pentecostal and Charismatic Research Association Aug 2009“Christian Primitivism in the Segregated South: New Perspectives on Race and Religion”Southern Historical Association, October 20088
“The Religious History of American Women: Reimagining the Past” Cushwa Center Seminar inAmerican Religion, September 2008“Women’s History is American Religious History” Berkshire Conference on the History ofWomen, University of Minnesota, June 2008“Women in the Church of God in Christ: Making a Sanctified World” Book discussion andauthor response, Society for Pentecostal Studies, Duke University, March 2008MLK lecture “Martin Luther King and the Women, Colgate Rochester Divinity School, February2008Pentecostal Lectureship “Pentecostal Saints and Sinners,” Center For Pentecostal Research,Northwest University, February 2008“African American Women and Writing American Religious Histories”, paper and panelist on“The Future of American Women’s Religious History” North American Religions Session,American Academy of Religion meeting, November 2007.“Race and the Body in Sleeper Cell”, panelist on “Sleeper Cell: Viewing Religion, Race, andTerrorism in a Post-9/11 World”. Religion, Media and Culture Group, American Academy ofReligion Meeting, November 2007.“The body and "bodies" of Pentecostalism,” European Pentecostal Charismatic ResearchAssociation Conference, University of Uppsala, Sweden. September 2007“Suspending My Constrictions: Observations on Christian Practice,” History of ChristianitySection, American Academy of Religion Meeting, Washington, D.C November 2006Roundtable participant on “American Lazarus,” American Studies Association, Oakland, Ca.October 2006“Pentecostalism’s Spiritual Capital in Los Angeles”, (speaker and panel moderator), “Spirit inthe World Conference on Global Pentecostalism, University of Southern California, October2006“A Century of Chicago Pentecostalism” McCormick Theological Seminary, September 2006“Purity and Power: Women’s Bodies in Pentecostalism” Södertörn University, Stockholm,Sweden, May 20069
Lucy Farrow Lectureship “Mothers, Sisters and Sirens: Pentecostal Women and Sexuality,” ThePentecostal Center, Huddinge, Sweden, May 2006.“Moved by the Spirit: Pentecostal Power and Politics after 100 Years”, Panel discussionsponsored The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, the USC Annenberg Knight Program inMedia and Religion, and the USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture, April 2006, Universityof Southern California.“The Negro Problem is not a Problem: Joanna P. Moore and Interracial Cooperation in theSouth, 1870-1916,” Organization of American Historians, April 2006Respondent, “Media, Commodities, and Practices in Religious Culture”, American Academy ofReligion, North American Religions Section, November 2005Purity and Power: Women’s Bodies in Pentecostalism, European Pentecostal CharismaticResearch Association/European Pentecostal Theological Association Conference, BeuggenCastle, Rheinfelden, Germany, March 2005Presidential Address, “Pentecostal Traditions We Should Pass On: The Good, the Bad, and theUgly,” Society for Pentecostal Studies Annual Meeting, March 2005 Regent University“Tammy Faye, Beyoncé, and Jessica Simpson: Gender, Race, Religion and Fashion.” USC,School of Religion, February 2005“Enduring Hardness as a Good Soldier: The Role of Illness as a Precursor to Leadership inHoliness and Pentecostal Testimonies,” American Society of Church History, January 2005Panelist, “Faith in the Academy Today: Responses to Scholarship and Christian Faith: Enlargingthe Conversation,” American Academy of Religion, November 2004“Observing the Lives of the Saints: Sanctification as Practice in the Church of God in Christ”,History of American Christian Practice Project final conference, University of North Carolina,October 2004“Dress as Becometh Holiness: Women, Fashion, and Belief in the Church of God inChrist”,1912-Present, Louis Wilson Institute Seminar, Vanguard University, October 2004Respondent to Dr. Peter Ng Tze Ming, Chung Chi College, The Chinese University of HongKong, “Education in Mission, The Experience in China.” History of World Christian MovementConsultation with Asian Church Historians, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, August 200410
"Unrespectable Saints: Women of the Church of God in Christ," Women and Religion inAmerica: Reimagining the Past, Martin Marty Center, University of Chicago, October 2003Feminine in Religious Traditions Lecture, “You are no Preacher: Women’s contested identitiesin the Church of God in Christ.” Howard Divinity School, March 2003“Hiding in the Brush Arbor,” panelist, Religion in the Old South: A 25th Anniversaryretrospective in honor of Donald Mathews, Southern Historical Association, November 2002“Making the Unrespectable Respectable: Black Pentecostal Women and Identity,” AmericanAcademy of Religion, November 2002Zora Neale Hurston Lectureship “You Got to Go there to Know There: Womanist Theology inTheir Eyes Were Watching God. Loyola Maryland, November 2002.Sixteenth Annual Women’s Lectureship: “Women and Evangelicalism”. Keynote Speaker. “OurEvangelical Her-itage: Women as Definers of Evangelicalism” and “Caught between Cosmo andChristianity Today: The 21st Century Evangelical Woman in Crisis”, Fuller Seminary, May 2002"World Rejecting, World Reforming: Church Mothers, Education, and the Club Movement:1930-1951” presented at the symposium: "Purity, Power, and Praise: Re-visioning Women'sReligious Roles in Africa and the African Diaspora" Princeton University, February 2002.“Ancient African Churches and Christian Understanding Today,” American Society of ChurchHistory, January 2002Mead-Swing Lectureship “Conflicting Identities: Church of God in Christ Women,Sanctification, and Women’s Clubs”, Oberlin College, November 2001“Evangelicalism and Race,” Evangelical Theology Section, American Academy of ReligionMeeting, November 2001“Pentecostals and the Death Penalty,” European Pentecostal and Charismatic ResearchAssociation, Pope’s College, Leuven, Belgium, July 2001.“The Women’s Department of the Church of God in Christ,” American Society of ChurchHistory/American Historical Association Annual Meeting, January 2001“Dress as Becometh Holiness: Clothing as Theological Metaphor in the Afro-AmericanPentecostal Tradition,” American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, November 2000.11
“Scripture, Race, and the Creation of the Godly Woman” Sexuality and Repression in AmericanReligion”, University of Bonn, Arbeitsgemeinschaft Frauenforshung (Women’s Studies lectures)Bonn, Germany, November 2000“Scripture and 19th Century Womanhood”: Lecture, University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt,Germany, November 2000“A Peculiar Genesis: Race and Religion in the Late 19th and Early 20th Century” Roots andRenewals: The Eighth Biennial Maple Leaf and Eagle Conference for North American Studies,University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, September 9-14, 2000“Ex Corde Ecclesia, A Historians View,” National Association for Catholic Women in HigherEducation, Boston College, June 2000“The Women’s Department of the Church of God in Christ,” African-American HistoryGraduate Student’s conference, University of Memphis, October 1999“African-American Women in the Promised Land: COGIC Women and California, 1914-1951,”Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements in California, Southern California College, October,1998“Intersections of Gender, Race, and Healing in the Holiness/Pentecostal Traditions,” Society ofPentecostal Studies, March 1998“Gender, Race, and Healing in the Holiness/Pentecostal Traditions: Intersections andTrajectories,” The American Historical Association/American Society of Church History,January 1998.“Sisters Doing it for Everyone: The Women's Work of the Church of God in Christ, 1912-1945,”American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, November 1996“Facets of Pentecostal Spirituality and Justice”, World Council of Churches/North and LatinAmerican Pentecostal Consultation, Costa Rica, June 1996.“Pentecostal Spirituality and Justice: A Divergent History” World Alliance of ReformedChurches/Pentecostal Dialogue, Italy, May 1996“Walls of Division: Racism's Role in Pentecostal History” Society for Pentecostal Studies,Wheaton College, November 1994.12
Fellowships and Grant AwardsYale Divinity School, Presidential Fellow, 2019-2020 (salary replacement)Luce/ACLS Fellows Program in Religion, Journalism and International Affairs Grantee 20182019 55,000Harvard Divinity School: Women’s Study in Religion Program, Research Associate & ColoradoScholar, 2008-2009, 40,000Humanities Project, University of Rochester, Religious Cultures of the African Diaspora,2007-2008 speakers series, /projects/?africanLouisville Institute First Book Grant Program for Minority Scholars, 2003-2004, 45,000Postdoctoral Fellow, Women and Religion in African Diaspora Project, Center for the Study ofReligion, Princeton University 2001-2002, 50,000Africa: From Tertullian to Tutu, Africa’s Place in Two Millennia of Christian History, Directedby Andrew Walls, Calvin Summer Seminars in Christian Scholarship, June-July 2002Teaching the History of Christianity, Wabash Center. Directed by Grant Wacker and Mark Noll,2001-2002Louisville Institute, Tenure Consultation for African Americans and L
"The Republican Party, the Tea Party and the Southern Strategy" Vanderbilt Religious History Colloquium: March 2012 "The Gospel of Sarah: Sarah Palin and The Tea Party Re-Write the Republican Playbook" Haverford College, October 2011 "Migration, African American Women and the Urban Space" Society for the Study of Black
