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Anthea Butler is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Africana Studies at Penn and graduate chair of Religious Studies. Butler focuses her research and writing on African American religion and history, politics, religion and gender, sexuality, media, and popular culture. She is the author of Women in the Church of God in Christ: Making a Sanctified World (University of North Carolina Press, 2007). Butler was awarded a Luce/ACLS Fellowship for the 2018-2019 academic year to investigate the prosperity gospel and its political dimensions in the American and Nigerian contexts.