{"id":58044,"date":"2015-08-17T10:42:25","date_gmt":"2015-08-17T14:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/experts\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=58044"},"modified":"2019-10-10T16:52:58","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T20:52:58","slug":"anthony-petro","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/profile\/anthony-petro\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Petro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Anthony Petro is a Religion professor within Boston University&#8217;s College of Arts &amp; Sciences. He specializes in Religion in America and Women and Gender Studies. His<\/span><span> research and teaching interests include the history and politics of modern Christianity, especially the history of Protestantism and Catholicism in the United States; gender and sexuality studies; the history of the HIV\/AIDS epidemic; and religion, medicine, and public health. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>His first book,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ukcatalogue.oup.com\/product\/9780199391288.do\"><i>After the Wrath of God: AIDS, Sexuality, and<span> American Religion<\/span><\/i><\/a><span>, investigates the history of American religious responses to the AIDS crisis and their role in the promotion of a national moral discourse on sex.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span>He co-chairs a five-year seminar called \u201cGlobal Perspectives on Religion and HIV\/AIDS\u201d for the American Academy of Religion. In addition, he is developing a new project that\u00a0examines the history of American Christian engagement with health and disability policy in the U.S. since the 1950s. It demonstrates how Christian leaders and activists have shaped cultural <\/span>understandings of health and moral citizenship through debates about topics such as alcoholism, euthanasia, disability rights, vaccination, abortion, and the war on drugs.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11144,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/58044"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11144"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/58044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70377,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/58044\/revisions\/70377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}