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Author:   Sylvester A. Johnson ,  Steven Weitzman
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.635kg
ISBN:  

9780520287273

ISBN 10:   0520287274
Pages:   376
Publication Date:   07 February 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction. True Faith and Allegiance - Religion and the FBI Sylvester A. Johnson and Steven Weitzman 1. American Religion and the Rise of Internal Security: A Prologue Kathryn Gin Lum and Lerone A. Martin 2. 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. 3. The FBI and the Moorish Science Temple of America, 1926-1960 Sylvester A. Johnson 4. J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI, and the Religious Cold War Dianne Kirby 5. Apostles of Deceit: Ecumenism, Fundamentalism, Surveillance, and the Contested Loyalties of Protestant Clergy during the Cold War Michael J. McVicar 6. The FBI and the Catholic Church Regin Schmidt 7. Hoover's Judeo-Christians: Jews, Religion, and Communism in the Cold War Sarah Imhoff 8. Policing Public Morality: Hoover's FBI, Obscenity, and Homosexuality Douglas M. Charles 9. The FBI and the Nation of Islam Karl Evanzz 10. Dreams and Shadows: Martin Luther King Jr., the FBI, and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference Sylvester A. Johnson 11. A Vast Infiltration: Mormonism and the FBI Matthew Bowman 12. The FBI's Cult War against the Branch Davidians Catherine Wessinger 13. The FBI and American Muslims after September Michael Barkun 14. Policing Kashmiri Brooklyn Junaid Rana 15. Allies against Armageddon? The FBI and the Academic Study of Religion Steven Weitzman Notes Index

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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

"""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"

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 *

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Sylvester A. Johnson is Associate Professor of African American Studies and Religious Studies at Northwestern University. Steven P. Weitzman is the Abraham Ellis Professor of Hebrew and Semitic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pennsylvania and director of the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies.

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