Religion Quotes by Anthea Butler

12 Religion quotes by Anthea Butler

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Anthea Butler’s twelve quotes on religion offer a sharp, critical lens on belief systems. Though brief, the collection highlights her analytical edge and invites readers to contemplate the cultural dimensions of faith.

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Not every conservative Christian is a dominionist, but to say a movement doesn't exist, as some pundits and journalists have, without even…

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C. Peter Wagner was the Donald McGavran professor of church growth at Fuller. He was considered to be the heir of McGavran,…

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Forgiveness is a spiritual practice and biblical mandate from the New Testament that many American Christians engage in as a part of…

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Graham may have wanted integration, but instead, he promoted gradualism and provided absolution for racists hiding behind a Christianity attuned not only…

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Coldplay's 'Hymn for the Weekend' video featuring Beyonce is already caught in a heated conversation about cultural appreciation of Indian religion and…

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'Hymn for the Weekend' mixes cultural and religious practices, commodifying them into a banal but beautiful message of imagined solidarity.

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One of the first books that outlined spiritual mapping was 'Breaking Strongholds in Your City: How to Use Spiritual Mapping to Make…

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As a historian of American and African-American religion, I know that the Trayvon Martin moment is just one moment in a history…

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As one of a handful of religion professors in the U.S. who study, write, and teach about conservative Christianity and politics, I…

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In evangelical and Pentecostal churches, most people have a home church they identify with, but you have a favourite pastor or evangelist…

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There is not one particular moment that can account for the shift from the social issue concerns of 19th-century evangelicals into the…

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These 21st-century 'teavangelicals,' who represent a considerable segment of the Republican party, are vastly different from their 19th-century forebears. Nineteenth-century evangelicals were…

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The pope's instruction for priests to forgive may mean, in some cases, the difference between a woman staying in the Catholic Church or leaving…

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Despite a rich history of black Americans involved in the Catholic Church, invisibility is a big problem for black Catholics in America.

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My memories of Vatican II center on white parishioners turning away from me when I went to shake their hands at Mass during the…

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The University of Pennsylvania and my wonderful colleagues in the Department of Religious Studies have been routinely sent hate emails about me. Calls to…

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Bernice King, daughter of MLK, is an assistant pastor at New Birth.

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