Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction. “True Faith and Allegiance”— Religion and the FBI 1
6. 1. American Religion and the Rise of Internal Security: A Prologue 17
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 32
8. 3. The FBI and the Moorish Science Temple of America, 1926–1960 55
9. 4. J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI, and the Religious Cold War 67
10. 5. Apostles of Deceit: Ecumenism, Fundamentalism, Surveillance, and the Contested Loyalties of Protestant Clergy during the Cold War 85
11. 6. The FBI and the Catholic Church 108
12. 7. Hoover’s Judeo-Christians: Jews, Religion, and Communism in the Cold War 121
13. 8. Policing Public Morality: Hoover’s FBI, Obscenity, and Homosexuality 134
14. 9. The FBI and the Nation of Islam 148
15. 10. Dreams and Shadows: Martin Luther King Jr., the FBI, and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference 168
16. 11. A Vast Infi ltration: Mormonism and the FBI 191
17. 12. The FBI’s “Cult War” against the Branch Davidians 203
18. 13. The FBI and American Muslims after September II 244
19. 14. Policing Kashmiri Brooklyn 256
20. 15. Allies against Armageddon? The FBI and the Academic Study of Religion 269
21. Notes 291
22. Index 341