I specified white evangelicals to show that I’m using the term in the way that it is used colloquially by the media and the political pundits, rather than in some academic sense. Either separately or together, what do they mean to you?Īnthea Butler: I chose this title because I wanted to set certain parameters for the book. Religion & Politics: The book is White Evangelical Racism-three words with which we’re all familiar, but that have been variously defined. Their conversations have been edited for length and clarity. Miller spoke with Butler about the book recently by phone. In her latest book, Butler provides a sweeping survey of American history since slavery, documenting the various ways that white evangelicals have contributed, through active collaboration and passive complicity, to the racist status quo in American life.Įric C. She is the author, previously, of Women in the Church of God in Christ: Making A Sanctified World. A popular Twitter presence, she is a frequent commentator on religion for media outlets, including MSNBC, CNN, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. “Racism is a feature, not a bug, of American evangelicalism,” she writes.īutler is associate professor of religious studies and Africana studies at the University of Pennsylvania. In her new book, White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America, Anthea Butler disagrees. Though many writers have conceded certain flaws and failings on matters like race and sex, such problems are most often treated as exceptions to the rule-the regrettable legacy of certain bad apples or influences. The academic literature on American evangelicalism is broad, deep, and largely sympathetic, authored in many cases by evangelical scholars who hope to preserve and nurture as well as document the tradition.
(Bettmann/Getty Images) In 1973, fundamentalist preacher Carl McIntire (center-right, with megaphone) led anti-communist demonstrators down Pennsylvania Avenue in D.C.
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