The FBI and religion : faith and national security before and after 9/11 / edited by Sylvester A. Johnson and Steven Weitzman.

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HV8144 .F353 2016

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

Subject: "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.

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

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