A chat with Dr. Lerone Martin on the FBI and the ‘Rise of White Christian Nationalism’

In case you missed it: Dr. Lerone Martin joined Alabama State Office Director Tafeni English-Relf on April 18, 2023, to discuss his book The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover: How the FBI Aided and Abetted the Rise of White Christian Nationalism.
A historian of religion in the 20th century, Martin is the faculty director for the Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University, where he is also an associate professor in the Department of Religious Studies. His books and scholarship provide critical context for the forces of religion, politics and race that have shaped the contemporary American political and social landscape.
Having witnessed firsthand the FBI’s engagement with faith communities during the protests in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014, Martin was inspired to write The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover: How the FBI Aided and Abetted the Rise of White Christian Nationalism, the shocking untold story of how the FBI partnered with white evangelicals to champion a vision of the United States as a white Christian nation.
For more information on Dr. Lerone Martin, visit the King Institute website. (kinginstitute.stanford.edu/pe...)
Purchase his book here. (bookshop.org/p/books/the-gosp...)