The FBI and Religion
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The FBI and Religion

  1. 376 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The FBI and Religion

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. List of Illustrations
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction. “True Faith and Allegiance”—Religion and the FBI
  6. 1. American Religion and the Rise of Internal Security: A Prologue
  7. 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
  8. 3. The FBI and the Moorish Science Temple of America, 1926–1960
  9. 4. J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI, and the Religious Cold War
  10. 5. Apostles of Deceit: Ecumenism, Fundamentalism, Surveillance, and the Contested Loyalties of Protestant Clergy during the Cold War
  11. 6. The FBI and the Catholic Church
  12. 7. Hoover’s Judeo-Christians: Jews, Religion, and Communism in the Cold War
  13. 8. Policing Public Morality: Hoover’s FBI, Obscenity, and Homosexuality
  14. 9. The FBI and the Nation of Islam
  15. 10. Dreams and Shadows: Martin Luther King Jr., the FBI, and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
  16. 11. A Vast Infiltration: Mormonism and the FBI
  17. 12. The FBI’s “Cult War” against the Branch Davidians
  18. 13. The FBI and American Muslims after September 11
  19. 14. Policing Kashmiri Brooklyn
  20. 15. Allies against Armageddon? The FBI and the Academic Study of Religion
  21. Notes
  22. Index