'We often think of America as fractured in just one way — between Republicans and Democrats — but the picture is a lot more complex,' writes Anthea Butler for CNNOpinion. 'Religion and race have historically played key roles in dividing the nation.'
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Anthea Butler is a Presidential Fellow at Yale Divinity School for 2019-2020 and associate professor of Religious Studies and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of"Women in the Church of God in Christ: Making A Sanctified World" . Follow her on Twitter: @antheabutler. The views expressed in this commentary are her own. View more opinion on CNN.
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Anthea Butler Far from being the mediating force in American politics, religion, when put into the mix, makes the political and racial issues of America stand out in graphic relief. It will be incumbent on those of good will in the 2020 election cycle to try and make peace, not war. Given the history of divisiveness in religion in American politics, particularly when it comes to Christianity and presidential politics, that probably won't be the case.
The secretive religious group shaping politics 16:50The White Citizen's Council, started in 1954 in Indianola, Mississippi, formed in the wake of Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, and councils soon sprang up in communities across the South.
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