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Government Surveillance of Religious Expression - Mormons, Quakers, and Muslims in the United States (Paperback)
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Government Surveillance of Religious Expression - Mormons, Quakers, and Muslims in the United States (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Religion
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Recent revelations about government surveillance of citizens have
led to questions about whether there should be better defined
boundaries around privacy. Should government officials have the
right to specifically target certain groups for extended
surveillance? United States municipal, territorial, and federal
agencies have investigated religious groups since the nineteenth
century. While critics of contemporary mass surveillance tend to
invoke the infringement of privacy, the mutual protection of
religion and public expression by the First Amendment positions
them, along with religious expression, comfortably within in the
public sphere. This book analyzes government monitoring of Mormons
of the Territory of Utah in the 1870s and 1880s for polygamy,
Quakers of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) from the
1940s to the 1960s for communist infiltration, and Muslims of
Brooklyn, New York, from 2002 to 2013 for suspected terrorism.
Government agencies in these case studies attempted to understand
how their religious beliefs might shape their actions in the public
sphere. It follows that government agents did not just observe
these communities, but they probed precisely what constituted
religion itself alongside shifting legal and political definitions
relative to their respective time periods. Together, these case
studies form a new framework for discussions of the historical and
contemporary monitoring of religion. They show that government
surveillance is less predictable and monolithic than we might
assume. Therefore, this book will be of great interest to scholars
of United States religion, history, and politics, as well as
surveillance and communication studies.
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