The FBI and religion : faith and national security before and after 9/11 /

The FBI and religion : faith and national security before and after 9/11 / edited by Sylvester A. Johnson and Steven Weitzman. - Oakland, California : University of California Press, (c)2016. - 1 online resource.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction "true faith and allegiance" : religion and the FBI / American religion and the rise of internal security : a prologue / "If God be for you, who can be against you?" : persecution and vindication of the Church of God in Christ during World War I / The FBI and the Moorish Science Temple of America, 1926-1960 / J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI, and the religious cold war / Apostles of deceit : ecumenism, fundamentalism, surveillance, and the contested loyalties of Protestant clergy during the Cold War / The FBI and the Catholic Church / Hoover's Judeo-Christians : Jews, religion, and Communism in the Cold War / Policing public morality : Hoover's FBI, obscenity, and homosexuality -- The FBI and the Nation of Islam / Dreams and shadows : Martin Luther King Jr., the FBI, and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference / A vast infiltration : Mormonism and the FBI / The FBI's "cult war" against the Branch Davidians / The FBI and American Muslims after September 11 / Policing Kashmiri Brooklyn / Allies against Armageddon? : the FBI and the academic study of religion / Sylvester A. Johnson and Steven Weitzman -- Kathryn Gin Lum and Lerone Martin -- Theodore Kornweibel, Jr. -- Sylvester A. Johnson -- Dianne Kirby -- Michael McVicar -- Regin Schmidt -- Sarah Imhoff -- Karl Evanzz -- Sylvester A. Johnson -- Matthew Bowman -- Catherine Wessinger -- Michael Barkun -- Junaid Rana -- Steven Weitzman.

"This book is the first to examine the fraught relationship between the Federal Bureau of Investigation and a variety of religious groups that have developed in the United States in the century of the FBI's existence. Encompassing religious communities that run the gamut from established religious institutions to violent extremist groups, and covering a period that includes the World Wars, the Cold War, the Civil Rights movement, and 9/11, Truth Faith and Allegiance tackles questions of importance for understanding the history of American religion, the history of law enforcement, and the future of religious liberty"--Provided by publisher.



9780520962422


United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation.


Law enforcement--Religious aspects.--United States
Religion and law--United States.


Electronic Books.

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