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Join us for a conversation with Anthea Butler and Terrence Johnson as they discuss Butler’s latest book, White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America.

Anthea Butler is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

Her new book White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America, is out March 2021 on Ferris and Ferris, a division of UNC Press. Her other books include Women in the Church of God in Christ: Making A Sanctified World, published also by The University of North Carolina Press.

A historian of African American and American religion, Professor Butler’s research and writing spans African American religion and history, race, politics, and evangelicalism. She writes opinion pieces covering religion, race, politics and popular culture for The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, NBC . You can see her on the recent PBS series The Black Church in America, and the forthcoming American Experience on Billy Graham, set to air May 2021 on PBS.

Terrence L. Johnson is Associate Professor of Religion and Politics in the Department of Government, affiliate faculty member of the Department of African American Studies, and senior faculty fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs. His research interests include African American political thought, American religions and ethics. He is the author of the forthcoming We Testify with Our Lives: How Religion Transformed Radical Thought From Black Power to Black Lives Matter (Columbia University Press, 2021), co-author of the forthcoming Blacks and Jews: An Invitation to a Dialogue (Georgetown University Press, 2021) and Tragic Soul-Life: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Moral Crisis Facing American Democracy (Oxford 2012).

A graduate of Morehouse College, Johnson received his M.Div. from Harvard Divinity School and Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Brown University.