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Mary Beth Mathews

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Mary Beth Swetnam Mathews is a professor of religious studies at the University of Mary Washington. She is most recently the author of Doctrine and Race: African American Evangelicals and Fundamentalism between the Wars. Her current work focuses on Black Baptist seminaries and white benefactors in the early twentieth century.

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