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

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.