The FBI and Religion: Faith and National Security before and after 9/11

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Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction. "True Faith and Allegiance"-Religion and the FBI; 1. American Religion and the Rise of Internal Security: A Prologue; 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; 3. The FBI and the Moorish Science Temple of America, 1926-1960; 4. J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI, and the Religious Cold War; 5. Apostles of Deceit: Ecumenism, Fundamentalism, Surveillance, and the Contested Loyalties of Protestant Clergy during the Cold War.;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. Cover Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction. "True Faith and Allegiance"-Religion and the FBI 1. American Religion and the Rise of Internal Security: A Prologue 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 3. The FBI and the Moorish Science Temple of America, 1926-1960 4. J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI, and the Religious Cold War 5. Apostles of Deceit: Ecumenism, Fundamentalism, Surveillance, and the Contested Loyalties of Protestant Clergy during the Cold War. 6. The FBI and the Catholic Church7. Hoover's Judeo-Christians: Jews, Religion, and Communism in the Cold War 8. Policing Public Morality: Hoover's FBI, Obscenity, and Homosexuality 9. The FBI and the Nation of Islam 10. Dreams and Shadows: Martin Luther King Jr., the FBI, and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference 11. A Vast Infiltration: Mormonism and the FBI 12. The FBI's "Cult War" against the Branch Davidians 13. The FBI and American Muslims after September 11 14. Policing Kashmiri Brooklyn 15. Allies against Armageddon? The FBI and the Academic Study of Religion Notes. IndexA B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z.