001430835 000__ 06037cam\\2200745\i\4500 001430835 001__ 1430835 001430835 003__ OCoLC 001430835 005__ 20230304003227.0 001430835 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001430835 007__ cr\cnu---unuuu 001430835 008__ 221125s2023\\\\njua\\\\ob\\\\001\0deng\\ 001430835 010__ $$a2022010827 001430835 020__ $$a0691244987$$qelectronic book 001430835 020__ $$a9780691244983$$q(electronic bk.) 001430835 020__ $$z9780691175119$$qhardcover 001430835 035__ $$a(OCoLC)1357549176 001430835 035__ $$a1430835 001430835 040__ $$aDLC$$beng$$erda$$cDLC$$dYDX$$dOCLCQ$$dTEFOD$$dJSTOR$$dN$T$$dP@U$$dUKAHL 001430835 042__ $$apcc 001430835 043__ $$an-us--- 001430835 049__ $$aISEA 001430835 05004 $$aBR563.W45$$bM37 2023 001430835 08200 $$a270.089$$223/eng/20230110 001430835 1001_ $$aMartin, Lerone A.,$$eauthor. 001430835 24514 $$aThe gospel of J. Edgar Hoover :$$bhow the FBI aided and abetted the rise of white Christian nationalism /$$cLerone A. Martin. 001430835 24630 $$aHow the Federal Bureau of Investigation aided and abetted the rise of white Christian nationalism 001430835 264_1 $$aPrinceton :$$bPrinceton University Press,$$c[2023] 001430835 300__ $$a1 online resource (xii, 340 pages) :$$billustrations 001430835 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001430835 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001430835 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001430835 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 001430835 5050_ $$aIntroduction : J. Edgar Hoover's stained glass window -- Hoover's faith -- Soldiers -- Ministers -- "Christianity today" -- Message to the white evangelical grassroots -- Bishop -- Champion -- Crusader -- Epilogue : stained (glass) legacy. 001430835 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001430835 520__ $$a"This book examines one powerful but largely neglected ally of this rising white conservative coalition: J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI he led for almost a half-century. Revered by the evangelical faithful, Hoover was a powerful ally of and partner to the mainstream evangelical movement, working alongside Billy Graham, the mass circulation magazine Christianity Today, the National Association of Evangelicals, and other evangelical institutions and leaders to advance a Christian nationalist vision of America. In some ways it was an odd partnership. Hoover, for one thing, was not himself a "born-again" evangelical. And he maintained a domestic partnership with a male senior FBI agent that did not cohere with Christian conservative family values. Yet white Christian conservatives readily looked to Hoover and his FBI for their civic and political salvation. The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover explains why white evangelicals from the pulpit to the pew honored Hoover as their anointed Christian champion. Part one of the book illustrates how Hoover made white Christian nationalism the bedrock of the modern national security state by shaping the FBI in his own image as soldiers advancing toward a white, Christian America. The second part explains how Hoover materially supported the white Christian nationalist project of fusing conservative Christianity with American civic life. Along the way, Martin considers broader questions about the relationship between religion and national security in American history, and what Hoover's bureau might reveal about the nature of white evangelicalism"--$$cProvided by publisher. 001430835 520__ $$a"The shocking untold story of how the FBI partnered with white evangelicals to champion a vision of America as a white Christian nationOn a Sunday morning in 1966, a group of white evangelicals dedicated a stained glass window to J. Edgar Hoover. The FBI director was not an evangelical, but his Christian admirers anointed him as their political champion, believing he would lead America back to God. The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover reveals how Hoover and his FBI teamed up with leading white evangelicals and Catholics to bring about a white Christian America by any means necessary.Lerone Martin draws on thousands of newly declassified FBI documents and memos to describe how, under Hoover's leadership, FBI agents attended spiritual retreats and worship services, creating an FBI religious culture that fashioned G-men into soldiers and ministers of Christian America. Martin shows how prominent figures such as Billy Graham, Fulton Sheen, and countless other ministers from across the country partnered with the FBI and laundered bureau intel in their sermons while the faithful crowned Hoover the adjudicator of true evangelical faith and allegiance. These partnerships not only solidified the political norms of modern white evangelicalism, they also contributed to the political rise of white Christian nationalism, establishing religion and race as the bedrock of the modern national security state, and setting the terms for today's domestic terrorism debates.Taking readers from the pulpits and pews of small-town America to the Oval Office, and from the grassroots to denominational boardrooms, The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover completely transforms how we understand the FBI, white evangelicalism, and our nation's entangled history of religion and politics"--$$cProvided by publisher. 001430835 588__ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 25, 2023). 001430835 60010 $$aHoover, J. 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