Anthea Butler is Associate Professor and Graduate Chair of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Her most recent book, “Women in the Church of God in Christ, Making A Sanctified World” published on the University of North Carolina Press, chronicles the history of African American women’s religious lives, and civic engagement in the [...]
Find out more...Sarah Palin just made her horrendous week worse with her new video in which she accuses her political critics of “blood libel.”
This gaffe — demonstrating both an ignorance of religious history and language — tops a disastrous week: her crosshairs map has been Exhibit A in the discussion of the use of gun-related imagery in political [...]