FBI and Religion

Faith and National Security before and after 9/11

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

AvSylvester A. Johnson,Steven Weitzman,Sylvester a. Johnson

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The Federal Bureau of Investigation has had a long and tortuous relationship with religion over almost the entirety of its existence. As early as 1917, the Bureau began to target religious communities and groups it believed were hotbeds of anti-American politics. Whether these religious communities were pacifist groups that opposed American wars, or religious groups that advocated for white supremacy or direct conflict with the FBI, the Bureau has infiltrated and surveilled religious communities that run the gamut of American religious life. The FBI and Religion recounts this fraught and fascinating history, focusing on key moments in the Bureau's history. Starting from the beginnings of the FBI before World War I, moving through the Civil Rights Movement and the Cold War, up to 9/11 and today, this book tackles questions essential to understanding not only the history of law enforcement and religion, but also the future of religious liberty in America.

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Utgivningsdatum2017-02-07
Mått152 x 229 x 28 mm
Vikt635 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor376
FörlagUniversity of California Press
ISBN9780520287273

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List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. “True Faith and Allegiance”— Religion and the FBISylvester A. Johnson and Steven Weitzman1. American Religion and the Rise of Internal Security: A PrologueKathryn Gin Lum and Lerone A. Martin2. “If God be for you, who can be against you?” Persecution and Vindication of the Church of God in Christ during World War ITheodore Kornweibel, Jr.3. The FBI and the Moorish Science Temple of America, 1926–1960Sylvester A. Johnson4. J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI, and the Religious Cold WarDianne Kirby5. Apostles of Deceit: Ecumenism, Fundamentalism, Surveillance, and the Contested Loyalties of Protestant Clergy during the Cold WarMichael J. McVicar6. The FBI and the Catholic ChurchRegin Schmidt7. Hoover’s Judeo-Christians: Jews, Religion, and Communism in the Cold WarSarah Imhoff8. Policing Public Morality: Hoover’s FBI, Obscenity, and HomosexualityDouglas M. Charles9. The FBI and the Nation of IslamKarl Evanzz10. Dreams and Shadows: Martin Luther King Jr., the FBI, and the Southern Christian Leadership ConferenceSylvester A. Johnson11. A Vast Infiltration: Mormonism and the FBIMatthew Bowman12. The FBI’s “Cult War” against the Branch DavidiansCatherine Wessinger13. The FBI and American Muslims after SeptemberMichael Barkun14. Policing Kashmiri BrooklynJunaid Rana15. Allies against Armageddon? The FBI and the Academic Study of ReligionSteven WeitzmanNotesIndex

"The story of the FBI and religion is not a series of isolated mishaps, argues a new book of essays edited by Steven Weitzman, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and Sylvester A. Johnson, a professor at Northwestern University. Over its 109 years of existence, these historians and their colleagues argue, the Bureau has shaped American religious history through targeted investigations and religiously tinged rhetoric about national security." The Atlantic