عنوان

Under the Eye of Providence: Surveilling Religious Expression in the United States

Number

TL49021

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

انگلیسی

Title Proper

Under the Eye of Providence: Surveilling Religious Expression in the United States

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Kathryn A. Montalbano

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

John, Richard R.

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Columbia University

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2016

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

285

Text of Note

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-369-14479-6

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

Discipline of degree

Communications

Body granting the degree

Columbia University

Text preceding or following the note

2016

Text of Note

This dissertation analyzes how government agencies influenced the religious expression of Mormons of the Territory of Utah in the 1870s and 1880s, Quakers of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) from the late 1940s to the early 1960s, and Muslims of Brooklyn, New York, from 2002 to 2013. I argue that nineteenth-century federal marshals and judges in the Territory of Utah, mid-twentieth century FBI agents throughout the United States, and New York Police Department officers in post-September 11 New York were prompted to monitor each religious community by their concerns about polygamy, communism, and terrorism, respectively. The government agencies did not just observe the communities, but they probed precisely what constituted religion itself.

American studies; American history; Communication

Subject Term

Social sciences;Communication and the arts;Government monitoring;Government surveillance;Religious expression;United states history;United states religion

Cantrell, Rachel Noel-Marie

John, Richard R.

Subdivision

Communications

Columbia University

Call Number

1840910217; 10159534

Electronic name

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[Thesis]

276903

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