'Republican Party to Republican Religion'

The Goodspeed Lecture Series welcomes Anthea Butler presenting “From Republican Party to Republican Religion: How the Religious Right moved from the margins to the center of political action.” Anthea Butler is associate professor of religious studies and graduate chair in the department of religious studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Her most recent book, "Women in the Church of God in Christ, Making A Sanctified World," chronicles the history of African American women’s religious lives, and civic engagement in the Church of God in Christ, the largest Pentecostal denomination in the United States. Butler's forthcoming book is "The Gospel According to Sarah: How Sarah Palin and the Tea Party are Galvanizing the Religious Right." Free and open to the public.