The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover : : How the FBI Aided and Abetted the Rise of White Christian Nationalism / / Lerone A. Martin.
The shocking untold story of how the FBI partnered with white evangelicals to champion a vision of America as a white Christian nationOn a Sunday morning in 1966, a group of white evangelicals dedicated a stained glass window to J. Edgar Hoover. The FBI director was not an evangelical, but his Chris...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2023] ©2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (352 p.) :; 18 b/w illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Prologue: Suing the FBI
- INTRODUCTION: J. Edgar Hoover’s Stained Glass Window
- CHAPTER 1 Hoover’s Faith
- PART 1 Proselytizing Faith: Soldiers and Ministers—The Religious Foundations of Hoover’s FBI
- Introduction
- CHAPTER 2 Soldiers
- CHAPTER 3 Ministers
- PART 2 Promoting Faith: The FBI and White Evangelicals
- Introduction
- CHAPTER 4 Christianity Today
- CHAPTER 5 Message to the Grassroots
- PART 3 Policing Faith: Hoover, the Author and Adjudicator of White Evangelicalism
- Introduction
- CHAPTER 6 Bishop
- CHAPTER 7 Champion
- CHAPTER 8 Crusader
- EPILOGUE Stained (Glass) Legacy
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Abridged Archival Sources
- Index