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'''Katherine Stewart''' is an American journalist and author who often writes about issues related to the [[separation of church and state]], the rise of [[religious nationalism]], and global movements against [[liberal democracy]]. Her books include ''[[The Good News Club: The Christian Right's Stealth Assault on America's Children]]'' (2012) |
'''Katherine Stewart''' is an American journalist and author who often writes about issues related to the [[separation of church and state]], the rise of [[religious nationalism]], and global movements against [[liberal democracy]]. Her books include ''[[The Good News Club: The Christian Right's Stealth Assault on America's Children]]'' (2012), ''[[The Power Worshippers|The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism]]'' (2020), which also served as the basis for the documentary film ''[[God & Country]]'' (2024); and the forthcoming ''Money Lies and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy.''<ref>{{cite news |last1=Katherine |first1=Stewart |title=Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy |url=https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/money-lies-and-god-9781635578546/ |access-date=12 October 2024 |publisher=Bloomsbury}}</ref> |
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== Career == |
== Career == |
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As a writer and speaker, Stewart has shown interest in controversies over [[religious freedom]] and the [[separation of church and state]].<ref name = KSNewRepublic20200302/> She has also written about [[public education|public]] and [[science education]],<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/13/opinion/betsy-devos-and-gods-plan-for-schools.html|last=Stewart|date=December 13, 2016|title=Opinion: Betsy DeVos and God's Plan for Schools}}</ref><ref name=Sojo/> [[public funding]] of [[faith-based initiatives]], anti-LGBT initiatives on the state level,<ref name="natn2">{{cite news|title=Katherine Stewart|work=The Nation|url=https://www.thenation.com/?s=Katherine+Stewart&post_type=article}}</ref> faith-based political organizing,<ref>{{Cite |
As a writer and speaker, Stewart has shown interest in controversies over [[religious freedom]] and the [[separation of church and state]].<ref name = KSNewRepublic20200302/> She has also written about [[public education|public]] and [[science education]],<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/13/opinion/betsy-devos-and-gods-plan-for-schools.html|last=Stewart|date=December 13, 2016|title=Opinion: Betsy DeVos and God's Plan for Schools|work=The New York Times }}</ref><ref name=Sojo/> [[public funding]] of [[faith-based initiatives]], anti-LGBT initiatives on the state level,<ref name="natn2">{{cite news|title=Katherine Stewart|work=The Nation|url=https://www.thenation.com/?s=Katherine+Stewart&post_type=article}}</ref> faith-based political organizing,<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Stewart |first=Katherine |date=January 10, 2022 |title=The Shock Troops of the Next Big Lie |url=https://newrepublic.com/article/164842/christian-nationalists-trump-shock-troops |access-date=December 23, 2022 |magazine=The New Republic}}</ref> the [[Supreme Court of the United States|U.S. Supreme Court]],<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Stewart |first=Katherine |date=May 10, 2022 |title=How Christian Nationalism Perverted the Judicial System and Gutted Our Rights |url=https://newrepublic.com/article/166404/christian-right-roe-alito-abortion |access-date=November 27, 2022 |magazine=The New Republic}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Stewart |first=Katherine |date=2022-07-05 |title=Opinion {{!}} Christian Nationalists Are Excited About What Comes Next |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/05/opinion/dobbs-christian-nationalism.html |access-date=2022-11-28 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> [[Homeschooling in the United States|homeschooling]],<ref>{{Cite web |date=2013-05-08 |title=The dark side of home schooling: America's Christian right tried to train up 'culture warriors' {{!}} Katherine Stewart |url=http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/may/08/christian-home-schooling-dark-side |access-date=2022-12-29 |website=the Guardian |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Stewart |first=Katherine |date=July 20, 2020 |title=Coronavirus home schooling highlights the religious right's education system influence |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/coronavirus-home-schooling-highlights-religious-right-s-education-system-influence-ncna1233824?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma |access-date=December 29, 2022 |website=NBC News}}</ref> and [[bullying in schools]] in the U.S.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/donald-trump-has-unleashed-a-new-wave-of-bullying-in-schools/|title=Donald Trump Has Unleashed a New Wave of Bullying in Schools|last=Stewart|publisher=The Nation|date=November 7, 2016}}</ref> |
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<!--THE KIRKUS REVIEW THAT APPEARED HERE EARLIER WAS MISUSED—IT MADE NO GENERAL STATEMENT, ONLY REVIEWED ONE BOOK. THIS SENTENCE/SECTION NEEDS SOURCES STATING EACH OF HER INTERESTS. PLEASE DO NOT SELECT AND MOVE IN KS's PERSONAL WRITINGS; BESIDES PADDING THE REFLIST WITH NON-INDEPENDENT, FIRST-PARTY CITATIONS, THIS IS US DECIDING WHAT SHE IS ABOUT, RATHER THAN OTHERS, FROM PUBLISHED SOURCES. WE MOSTLY SHOULD PRESENT WHAT OTHER'S HAVE SAID—IN THE ARTICLE SPACE, OUR OFFERINGS SHOULD BE DESCRIPTIONS FROM SOURCE, AND NOT APPROACH CRITICAL ANALYSIS OR EDITORIAL JUDGMENTS ABOUT SUBJECT'S INTERESTS OR LEANINGS.--> |
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Stewart began her journalism career working for [[investigative reporter]] [[Wayne Barrett]] at ''[[The Village Voice]]''.<ref name=RNS>Shimron, Yonat (March 6, 2020). [https://religionnews.com/2020/03/06/katherine-stewart-on-the-political-ideology-behind-christian-nationalism/ "Katherine Stewart on Christian nationalism's push to undermine democratic norms"]. Religious News Service. Retrieved March 27, 2020.</ref> Since 2011, she has been an op-ed contributor to ''[[The New York Times]]'', writing more than 20 columns.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Stewart |first=Katherine |title=The New York Times Archives |url=https://katherinestewart.me/articles/publication/the-new-york-times/ |access-date=2022-11-03 |website=Katherine Stewart |language=en}}</ref> In a March 2020 op-ed, she linked the slow federal response to the [[COVID19 in US|country's coronavirus outbreak]] to President [[Donald Trump|Trump]]'s connections to the far right and [[anti-science]] conservatives.<ref>{{cite news|last=Stewart|first=Katherine|title=The Religious Right's Hostility to Science Is Crippling Our Coronavirus Response|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/27/opinion/coronavirus-trump-evangelicals.html|work=The New York Times|date=March 27, 2020|access-date=May 11, 2020}}</ref> |
Stewart began her journalism career working for [[investigative reporter]] [[Wayne Barrett]] at ''[[The Village Voice]]''.<ref name=RNS>Shimron, Yonat (March 6, 2020). [https://religionnews.com/2020/03/06/katherine-stewart-on-the-political-ideology-behind-christian-nationalism/ "Katherine Stewart on Christian nationalism's push to undermine democratic norms"]. Religious News Service. Retrieved March 27, 2020.</ref> Since 2011, she has been an op-ed contributor to ''[[The New York Times]]'', writing more than 20 columns.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Stewart |first=Katherine |title=The New York Times Archives |url=https://katherinestewart.me/articles/publication/the-new-york-times/ |access-date=2022-11-03 |website=Katherine Stewart |language=en}}</ref> In a March 2020 op-ed, she linked the slow federal response to the [[COVID19 in US|country's coronavirus outbreak]] to President [[Donald Trump|Trump]]'s connections to the far right and [[anti-science]] conservatives.<ref>{{cite news|last=Stewart|first=Katherine|title=The Religious Right's Hostility to Science Is Crippling Our Coronavirus Response|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/27/opinion/coronavirus-trump-evangelicals.html|work=The New York Times|date=March 27, 2020|access-date=May 11, 2020}}</ref> |
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Stewart has contributed pieces to ''[[The Guardian]],''<ref name = GuardianBiblio>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/profile/katherine-stewart|title=Katherine Stewart | The Guardian|website=the Guardian}}</ref> and has written for<!--Could find no 1997 book co-authored by Stewart and McDonnel, see following, in Google Books; note, the citation appended just identifies Rent, which is already done by the Wikilink; re-add this sentence when KS's involvement can be verified by a third-party mention, traceable to an ISBN. Redacted sentence is: "Along with [[music journalist]] Evelyn McDonnell, she cowrote a book about the musical [[Rent (musical)|''Rent'']] in 1997."{{cn}}{{failed verification}}<ref>Larson, Jonathan, ''Rent'' (New York: It Books, 1997)</ref>--> ''[[The American Prospect]]'',<ref name = AmerProspectBiblio>{{Cite web|url=https://prospect.org/topics/katherine-stewart/|title=Katherine Stewart|website=The American Prospect}}</ref> [[George Washington University]]'s [[History News Network]],<ref>{{cite news|url=https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/174498|title=A Founder of American Religious Nationalism|last=Stewart|publisher=Columbian College of Arts & Sciences, George Washington University}}</ref> ''[[The Nation]]'',<ref>{{Cite web |date=2015-01-14 |title=Katherine Stewart |url=https://www.thenation.com/authors/katherine-stewart/ |access-date=2022-11-14 |website=The Nation |language=en-US}}</ref> ''[[Reuters.com|Reuters]]'',<ref name="GuardianBiblio" /> ''[[The Atlantic]],''<ref>{{Cite web |last=Stewart |first=Katherine |title=Katherine Stewart |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/author/katherine-stewart/ |access-date=2022-11-14 |website=The Atlantic |language=en-US}}</ref> ''[[The New Republic]]'',<ref>{{Cite |
Stewart has contributed pieces to ''[[The Guardian]],''<ref name = GuardianBiblio>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/profile/katherine-stewart|title=Katherine Stewart | The Guardian|website=the Guardian}}</ref> and has written for<!--Could find no 1997 book co-authored by Stewart and McDonnel, see following, in Google Books; note, the citation appended just identifies Rent, which is already done by the Wikilink; re-add this sentence when KS's involvement can be verified by a third-party mention, traceable to an ISBN. Redacted sentence is: "Along with [[music journalist]] Evelyn McDonnell, she cowrote a book about the musical [[Rent (musical)|''Rent'']] in 1997."{{cn}}{{failed verification}}<ref>Larson, Jonathan, ''Rent'' (New York: It Books, 1997)</ref>--> ''[[The American Prospect]]'',<ref name = AmerProspectBiblio>{{Cite web|url=https://prospect.org/topics/katherine-stewart/|title=Katherine Stewart|website=The American Prospect}}</ref> [[George Washington University]]'s [[History News Network]],<ref>{{cite news|url=https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/174498|title=A Founder of American Religious Nationalism|last=Stewart|publisher=Columbian College of Arts & Sciences, George Washington University}}</ref> ''[[The Nation]]'',<ref>{{Cite web |date=2015-01-14 |title=Katherine Stewart |url=https://www.thenation.com/authors/katherine-stewart/ |access-date=2022-11-14 |website=The Nation |language=en-US}}</ref> ''[[Reuters.com|Reuters]]'',<ref name="GuardianBiblio" /> ''[[The Atlantic]],''<ref>{{Cite web |last=Stewart |first=Katherine |title=Katherine Stewart |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/author/katherine-stewart/ |access-date=2022-11-14 |website=The Atlantic |language=en-US}}</ref> ''[[The New Republic]]'',<ref>{{Cite magazine |title=Katherine Stewart |url=https://newrepublic.com/authors/katherine-stewart?page=1 |access-date=2023-01-03 |magazine=The New Republic |language=en-us}}</ref>''[[The Daily Beast]]'',<ref>{{Cite web |title=Katherine Stewart |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/author/katherine-stewart |access-date=2022-11-16 |website=The Daily Beast |date=July 12, 2020 |language=en}}</ref> ''[[Newsweek]]'', ''[[Rolling Stone]]'', ''[[The New York Observer]]'',<ref>{{cite news|url=https://observer.com/2005/05/mommy-mimics-so-having-a-baby-wasnt-just-my-idea/|last=Stewart|publisher=The New York Observer|title=Mommy Mimics: So Having a Baby Wasn't Just My Idea?|date=May 2, 2005}}</ref> ''Santa Barbara Magazine,''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://issuu.com/santabarbaramag/docs/summer2015digedition?fr=sMmNmZjEyOTQ5MDg|work=Santa Barbara Magazine|title=Beautiful Minds: Santa Barbara Is Where Fantasies Come to Life and Creative Icons Come to Live|last=Stewart|pages=168–71|date=Summer 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://issuu.com/santabarbaramag/docs/spring_2015_dig_ed?fr=sNzA1NDEyOTQ5MDg|work=Santa Barbara Magazine|title=California Gold: Our Local Waters Are Home to the World's Most Sought After Sea Urchin|last=Stewart|pages=126–28, 162|date=Spring 2015}}</ref> '' ''[[The New York Review of Books]]'',<ref>{{Cite web |title=Katherine Stewart |url=https://www.nybooks.com/contributors/katherine-stewart/ |access-date=2022-12-15 |website=The New York Review of Books |language=en}}</ref> and ''[[Religion Dispatches]]''.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://religiondispatches.org/how-a-powerful-ex-gay-pastor-is-chasing-the-latino-vote/|title=HOW A POWERFUL 'EX-GAY' PASTOR IS CHASING THE LATINO VOTE|last=Stewart|date=March 2, 2020|publisher=Religion Dispatches}}</ref> |
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In 2012, after seeing [[Good News Club|that group's]] involvement in her children's public school, Stewart wrote ''[[The Good News Club: The Christian Right's Stealth Assault on America's Children]]''. ''[[Kirkus]]'' described it as "[c]ompelling investigative journalism about an undercovered phenomenon."<ref name=Kirk>{{cite web|date=December 19, 2011 |title=Book Review—The Good News Club: The Christian Right's Stealth Assault on America's Children | url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/katherine-stewart/good-news-club/|work=KirkusReviews.com | access-date = March 27, 2020 }}</ref> Alexander Heffner of the ''[[Minnesota Star Tribune]]'' wrote that the book "exposes the violation of church and state in schools", calling it "an important work" and "a fascinating exposé", and Stewart "a great digger for facts" and "a respectful narrator."<ref name=StarT>{{cite news|last=Heffner|first=Alexander|date=January 24, 2012|title=Nonfiction Review: Book exposes the violation of church and state in schools|work=[[Minnesota Star Tribune]]|url=http://www.startribune.com/nonfiction-review-book-exposes-the-violation-of-church-and-state-in-schools/137980208/ | access-date = March 27, 2020 }}</ref> |
In 2012, after seeing [[Good News Club|that group's]] involvement in her children's public school, Stewart wrote ''[[The Good News Club: The Christian Right's Stealth Assault on America's Children]]''. ''[[Kirkus]]'' described it as "[c]ompelling investigative journalism about an undercovered phenomenon."<ref name=Kirk>{{cite web|date=December 19, 2011 |title=Book Review—The Good News Club: The Christian Right's Stealth Assault on America's Children | url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/katherine-stewart/good-news-club/|work=KirkusReviews.com | access-date = March 27, 2020 }}</ref> Alexander Heffner of the ''[[Minnesota Star Tribune]]'' wrote that the book "exposes the violation of church and state in schools", calling it "an important work" and "a fascinating exposé", and Stewart "a great digger for facts" and "a respectful narrator."<ref name=StarT>{{cite news|last=Heffner|first=Alexander|date=January 24, 2012|title=Nonfiction Review: Book exposes the violation of church and state in schools|work=[[Minnesota Star Tribune]]|url=http://www.startribune.com/nonfiction-review-book-exposes-the-violation-of-church-and-state-in-schools/137980208/ | access-date = March 27, 2020 }}</ref> |
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In March 2020, Stewart published ''[[The Power Worshippers|The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism]],'' which outlines the decentralized Christian nationalist movement in the U.S. and its grabs for power, linking it to historical movements against [[Abolitionism|abolition]], the [[New Deal]], and [[civil rights]].<ref name=Sojo/> It was reviewed in ''[[Foreign Affairs]]'' and was excerpted in the ''[[New York Review of Books]]'' and partially adapted in ''[[The New Republic]]''.<ref>{{Cite news|date=April 14, 2020|title=The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism|language=en-US|url=https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/capsule-review/2020-04-14/power-worshippers-inside-dangerous-rise-religious-nationalism|access-date=2021-01-18|issn=0015-7120}}</ref><ref name = KSNewRepublic20200302>See {{cite |
In March 2020, Stewart published ''[[The Power Worshippers|The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism]],'' which outlines the decentralized Christian nationalist movement in the U.S. and its grabs for power, linking it to historical movements against [[Abolitionism|abolition]], the [[New Deal]], and [[civil rights]].<ref name=Sojo/> It was reviewed in ''[[Foreign Affairs]]'' and was excerpted in the ''[[New York Review of Books]]'' and partially adapted in ''[[The New Republic]]''.<ref>{{Cite news|date=April 14, 2020|title=The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism|language=en-US|url=https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/capsule-review/2020-04-14/power-worshippers-inside-dangerous-rise-religious-nationalism|access-date=2021-01-18|issn=0015-7120}}</ref><ref name = KSNewRepublic20200302>See {{cite magazine|title=Faith Militant|url=https://newrepublic.com/article/156415/faith-militant|magazine=The New Republic|first=Katherine|last=Stewart|date= March 2, 2020| access-date = March 27, 2020 }}, including the editor's description of the author, under the article, which states "Katherine Stewart writes about controversies over religious freedom and church-state separation, politics, policy, and education."</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2020/02/28/the-real-meaning-of-religious-liberty-a-license-to-discriminate/|title=The Real Meaning of Religious Liberty: A License to Discriminate≈|work=The New York Review of Books|date=February 28, 2020}}</ref> ''[[The Washington Post]]'' called it "required reading for anyone who wants to map the continuing erosion of our already fragile wall between church and state".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/why-christian-nationalists-think-trump-is-heaven-sent/2020/03/20/a3c42734-5983-11ea-9b35-def5a027d470_story.html|title=Why Christian Nationalists Think Trump Is Heaven-Sent|last=Stewart|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=March 20, 2020}}</ref> David Austin Walsh in ''[[The Baffler]]'' wrote that Stewart neglected key right-wing evangelical figures such as [[Gerald L.K. Smith]] but that their "absence...is not a fatal omission."<ref>{{Cite web|date=February 28, 2020|title=Onward, Christian Soldiers {{!}} David Austin Walsh|url=https://thebaffler.com/latest/onward-christian-soldiers-walsh|access-date=2021-01-18|website=The Baffler|language=en-US}}</ref> She was interviewed on ''The Brian Lehrer Show'',<ref name=wnyc>{{cite news|url=https://www.wnyc.org/story/religious-rights-rise-power/|title=The Religious Right's Rise to Power|publisher=WNYC|date=March 4, 2020}}</ref> ''[[The Majority Report]],'' and for [[Salon (website)|Salon]] and ''[[Sojourners]]''.<ref name=Sojo>{{cite news|url=https://sojo.net/articles/katherine-stewart-power-worshippers|title=THE LONG-TERM VISION OF THE CHRISTIAN NATIONALIST MOVEMENT|last=Camacho|first=Daniel José|date=March 3, 2020|work=Sojourners}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://majorityreportradio.com/2020/04/13/4-13-the-power-worshippers-the-rise-of-religious-nationalism-w-katherine-stewart|title=The Power Worshippers & the Rise of Religious Nationalism w/ Katherine Stewart|publisher=The Majority Report|date=April 13, 2020}}</ref><ref name=Sa20>{{cite news|url=https://www.salon.com/2020/03/03/trump-christian-right-power-worshippers-katherine-stewart/|title=Trump's Christian right worships power more than they worship God|work=Salon|last=Marcotte|first=Amanda|date=March 3, 2020}}</ref> ''Power Worshippers'' also served as the basis for ''[[God & Country]]'' (2024), a documentary film directed by Dan Partland and produced by [[Rob Reiner]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Boorstein |first=Michelle |date=2024-01-12 |title='God & Country' film spotlights Christian nationalism's threat to democracy |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/01/11/reiner-christian-nationalism-documentary/ |access-date=2024-02-21 |newspaper=Washington Post |language=en-US |issn=0190-8286}}</ref> |
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==Personal life== |
==Personal life== |
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Stewart was born in [[Boston, Massachusetts]]. She is [[American Jews|Jewish]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Stewart |first1=Katherine |title=The Good New Club |date=2012 |publisher=Public Affairs |location=Chapter 2 |isbn=1586488430 |pages=304 |edition=1st |url=https://katherinestewart.me/books/the-good-news-club/excerpt/ |access-date=30 October 2024}}</ref> and her husband was raised [[Roman Catholic]]. |
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Stewart was raised in [[Brookline, Massachusetts]], where she attended the Runkle School and [[Brookline High School]].<ref>{{Cite news|first1=Katherine |last1= Stewart|first2=Matthew |last2=Stewart |title= Guest commentary: Why Are Brookline schools being 'turned around'? |newspaper=wickedlocal.com|date=June 9, 2016 |url= https://www.wickedlocal.com/story/brookline-tab/2016/06/09/guest-commentary-why-are-brookline/27964620007/|quote=Katherine Stewart is a journalist and the author of The Good News Club (Public Affairs, 2012) among other works. She has written for The Nation, the Guardian, The New York Times, and The Atlantic. Matthew Stewart is the author of Nature’s God: The Heretical Origins of the American Republic (Norton, 2014) and The Management Myth: Debunking the Modern Philosophy of Business (Norton, 2009), among other works. Katherine and Matthew are parents at The Runkle School, and Katherine is a graduate of Runkle and of Brookline High School. }}</ref> She is [[American Jews|Jewish]] and her husband was raised [[Roman Catholic]]; they have a daughter.<ref>{{Cite news|first=Yonat |last= Shimron|authorlink= |title= Katherine Stewart on Christian nationalism’s push to undermine democratic norms |newspaper=[[Religion News Service]]|date=March 6, 2020 |url=https://religionnews.com/2020/03/06/katherine-stewart-on-the-political-ideology-behind-christian-nationalism/ |quote=Stewart, who is Jewish and whose husband was raised Catholic, said she first became aware of Christian nationalism when her daughter’s public school in Santa Barbara, California, hosted a Good News Club, which encouraged elementary-grade children to try to convert peers to their evangelical faith.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last1= Stewart|first1=Matthew |last2=Stewart |first2= Katherine|title=Neil Gorsuch's Gay "Friends" Won't Save Us on the Supreme Court |newspaper=[[The Advocate (LGBT magazine)|The Advocate]]|date=March 7, 2017 |url= https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2017/3/07/neil-gorsuchs-gay-friends-wont-save-us-supreme-court |quote=KATHERINE STEWART's work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other publications. She is the author of The Good News Club: The Christian Right's Stealth Assault on America's Children (PublicAffairs). Matthew Stewart's latest book, Nature's God: The Heretical Origins of the American Republic (Norton), was long-listed for a National Book Award. He received his doctorate in philosophy from Oxford University. }}</ref> |
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==Books== |
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* {{cite book | last = Stewart |first = Katherine | date = February 2025 | title = Money, Lies, and God | publisher = [[Bloomsbury Publishing|Bloomsbury]] | edition = 1st | isbn = 9781635578546 | url = https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/money-lies-and-god-9781635578546/ | access-date = Oct 12, 2024 }} |
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* {{cite book | last = Stewart |first = Katherine | author-mask = — | date = March 2020 | title = The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism | location = New York, NY | publisher = [[Bloomsbury Publishing|Bloomsbury]] | edition = 1st | isbn = 9781635573459 | url = https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-power-worshippers-9781635573459 | access-date = March 27, 2020 }} |
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* {{cite book | last = Stewart |first = Katherine | author-mask = — | year = 2012 | title = The Good News Club: The Christian Right's Stealth Assault on America's Children | publisher = [[PublicAffairs]] | isbn = 978-1-58648-843-7 | url = https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/katherine-stewart/the-good-news-club/9781610390507/ | access-date = April 28, 2020 }} |
* {{cite book | last = Stewart |first = Katherine | author-mask = — | year = 2012 | title = The Good News Club: The Christian Right's Stealth Assault on America's Children | publisher = [[PublicAffairs]] | isbn = 978-1-58648-843-7 | url = https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/katherine-stewart/the-good-news-club/9781610390507/ | access-date = April 28, 2020 }} |
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* {{cite book | author = Stewart, Katherine | year = 2006 | title = Class Mothers | publisher = [[Penguin Books|Penguin]]–[[Berkley Publishing|Berkley]] | isbn = 9781101220542 | url = https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/295283/class-mothers-by-katherine-stewart/9781101220542 | access-date = April 28, 2020 }} |
* {{cite book | author = Stewart, Katherine | year = 2006 | title = Class Mothers | publisher = [[Penguin Books|Penguin]]–[[Berkley Publishing|Berkley]] | isbn = 9781101220542 | url = https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/295283/class-mothers-by-katherine-stewart/9781101220542 | access-date = April 28, 2020 }} |
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* {{cite book | last = Stewart |first = Katherine | author-mask = — |year=2005 |isbn=9780425202630 |location=New York |title=The Yoga Mamas |publisher=[[Penguin Books|Penguin]]–[[Berkley Publishing|Berkley]]}} |
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*2020 Morris D. and Selma V. Forkosch Award from the Council for Secular Humanism and the [[Center for Inquiry]], for ''The Power Worshippers''.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Fidalgo|first=Paul|date=April 13, 2021|title=Katherine Stewart Wins Forkosch Award For Best Humanist Book; Judith Wells Wins For Best Article|url=https://centerforinquiry.org/press_releases/katherine-stewart-wins-forkosch-award-for-best-humanist-book-judith-wells-wins-for-best-article/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210413204521/https://centerforinquiry.org/press_releases/katherine-stewart-wins-forkosch-award-for-best-humanist-book-judith-wells-wins-for-best-article/|archive-date=April 13, 2021|access-date=April 14, 2021|website=Center for Inquiry}}</ref> |
*2020 Morris D. and Selma V. Forkosch Award from the Council for Secular Humanism and the [[Center for Inquiry]], for ''The Power Worshippers''.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Fidalgo|first=Paul|date=April 13, 2021|title=Katherine Stewart Wins Forkosch Award For Best Humanist Book; Judith Wells Wins For Best Article|url=https://centerforinquiry.org/press_releases/katherine-stewart-wins-forkosch-award-for-best-humanist-book-judith-wells-wins-for-best-article/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210413204521/https://centerforinquiry.org/press_releases/katherine-stewart-wins-forkosch-award-for-best-humanist-book-judith-wells-wins-for-best-article/|archive-date=April 13, 2021|access-date=April 14, 2021|website=Center for Inquiry}}</ref> |
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*2021 First Place for Excellence in Nonfiction Books from the [[Religion Newswriters Association|Religion News Association]], for ''The Power Worshippers''.<ref>{{Cite web |date=October 7, 2021 |title=Religion News Association names winners of 2021 Awards for Religion Reporting Excellence |url=https://www.rna.org/news/582665/Religion-News-Association-names-winners-of-2021-Awards-for-Religion-Reporting-Excellence.htm|access-date=October 26, 2022 |website=Religion News Association}}</ref> |
*2021 First Place for Excellence in Nonfiction Books from the [[Religion Newswriters Association|Religion News Association]], for ''The Power Worshippers''.<ref>{{Cite web |date=October 7, 2021 |title=Religion News Association names winners of 2021 Awards for Religion Reporting Excellence |url=https://www.rna.org/news/582665/Religion-News-Association-names-winners-of-2021-Awards-for-Religion-Reporting-Excellence.htm|access-date=October 26, 2022 |website=Religion News Association}}</ref> |
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*2024 Freethought Heroine from [[Freedom From Religion Foundation]]<ref>{{Cite web |date=September 28, 2024 |title=Katherine Stewart, Freethought Heroine Awardee |url=https://ffrf.org/outreach/awards/freethought-heroine-award/katherine-stewart/|access-date=November 18, 2024 |website=Freedom From Religion Foundation}}</ref> |
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Born | Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
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Language | English |
Citizenship | United States |
Subject | Separation of church and state Christian nationalism Religion and politics |
Years active | 2009-present |
Notable works | The Good News Club (2012) The Power Worshippers (2020) |
Website | |
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Katherine Stewart is an American journalist and author who often writes about issues related to the separation of church and state, the rise of religious nationalism, and global movements against liberal democracy. Her books include The Good News Club: The Christian Right's Stealth Assault on America's Children (2012), The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism (2020), which also served as the basis for the documentary film God & Country (2024); and the forthcoming Money Lies and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy.[1]
Career
[edit]As a writer and speaker, Stewart has shown interest in controversies over religious freedom and the separation of church and state.[2] She has also written about public and science education,[3][4] public funding of faith-based initiatives, anti-LGBT initiatives on the state level,[5] faith-based political organizing,[6] the U.S. Supreme Court,[7][8] homeschooling,[9][10] and bullying in schools in the U.S.[11]
Stewart began her journalism career working for investigative reporter Wayne Barrett at The Village Voice.[12] Since 2011, she has been an op-ed contributor to The New York Times, writing more than 20 columns.[13] In a March 2020 op-ed, she linked the slow federal response to the country's coronavirus outbreak to President Trump's connections to the far right and anti-science conservatives.[14]
Stewart has contributed pieces to The Guardian,[15] and has written for The American Prospect,[16] George Washington University's History News Network,[17] The Nation,[18] Reuters,[15] The Atlantic,[19] The New Republic,[20]The Daily Beast,[21] Newsweek, Rolling Stone, The New York Observer,[22] Santa Barbara Magazine,[23][24] The New York Review of Books,[25] and Religion Dispatches.[26]
In 2012, after seeing that group's involvement in her children's public school, Stewart wrote The Good News Club: The Christian Right's Stealth Assault on America's Children. Kirkus described it as "[c]ompelling investigative journalism about an undercovered phenomenon."[27] Alexander Heffner of the Minnesota Star Tribune wrote that the book "exposes the violation of church and state in schools", calling it "an important work" and "a fascinating exposé", and Stewart "a great digger for facts" and "a respectful narrator."[28]
In March 2020, Stewart published The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism, which outlines the decentralized Christian nationalist movement in the U.S. and its grabs for power, linking it to historical movements against abolition, the New Deal, and civil rights.[4] It was reviewed in Foreign Affairs and was excerpted in the New York Review of Books and partially adapted in The New Republic.[29][2][30] The Washington Post called it "required reading for anyone who wants to map the continuing erosion of our already fragile wall between church and state".[31] David Austin Walsh in The Baffler wrote that Stewart neglected key right-wing evangelical figures such as Gerald L.K. Smith but that their "absence...is not a fatal omission."[32] She was interviewed on The Brian Lehrer Show,[33] The Majority Report, and for Salon and Sojourners.[4][34][35] Power Worshippers also served as the basis for God & Country (2024), a documentary film directed by Dan Partland and produced by Rob Reiner.[36]
Personal life
[edit]Stewart was born in Boston, Massachusetts. She is Jewish[37] and her husband was raised Roman Catholic.
Books
[edit]Nonfiction
[edit]- Stewart, Katherine (February 2025). Money, Lies, and God (1st ed.). Bloomsbury. ISBN 9781635578546. Retrieved October 12, 2024.
- — (March 2020). The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism (1st ed.). New York, NY: Bloomsbury. ISBN 9781635573459. Retrieved March 27, 2020.
- — (2012). The Good News Club: The Christian Right's Stealth Assault on America's Children. PublicAffairs. ISBN 978-1-58648-843-7. Retrieved April 28, 2020.
Fiction
[edit]- Stewart, Katherine (2006). Class Mothers. Penguin–Berkley. ISBN 9781101220542. Retrieved April 28, 2020.
- — (2005). The Yoga Mamas. New York: Penguin–Berkley. ISBN 9780425202630.
Awards
[edit]- 2014 Americans United Person of the Year.[38]
- 2020 Morris D. and Selma V. Forkosch Award from the Council for Secular Humanism and the Center for Inquiry, for The Power Worshippers.[39]
- 2021 First Place for Excellence in Nonfiction Books from the Religion News Association, for The Power Worshippers.[40]
- 2024 Freethought Heroine from Freedom From Religion Foundation[41]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Katherine, Stewart. "Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy". Bloomsbury. Retrieved October 12, 2024.
- ^ a b See Stewart, Katherine (March 2, 2020). "Faith Militant". The New Republic. Retrieved March 27, 2020., including the editor's description of the author, under the article, which states "Katherine Stewart writes about controversies over religious freedom and church-state separation, politics, policy, and education."
- ^ Stewart (December 13, 2016). "Opinion: Betsy DeVos and God's Plan for Schools". The New York Times.
- ^ a b c Camacho, Daniel José (March 3, 2020). "THE LONG-TERM VISION OF THE CHRISTIAN NATIONALIST MOVEMENT". Sojourners.
- ^ "Katherine Stewart". The Nation.
- ^ Stewart, Katherine (January 10, 2022). "The Shock Troops of the Next Big Lie". The New Republic. Retrieved December 23, 2022.
- ^ Stewart, Katherine (May 10, 2022). "How Christian Nationalism Perverted the Judicial System and Gutted Our Rights". The New Republic. Retrieved November 27, 2022.
- ^ Stewart, Katherine (July 5, 2022). "Opinion | Christian Nationalists Are Excited About What Comes Next". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved November 28, 2022.
- ^ "The dark side of home schooling: America's Christian right tried to train up 'culture warriors' | Katherine Stewart". the Guardian. May 8, 2013. Retrieved December 29, 2022.
- ^ Stewart, Katherine (July 20, 2020). "Coronavirus home schooling highlights the religious right's education system influence". NBC News. Retrieved December 29, 2022.
- ^ Stewart (November 7, 2016). "Donald Trump Has Unleashed a New Wave of Bullying in Schools". The Nation.
- ^ Shimron, Yonat (March 6, 2020). "Katherine Stewart on Christian nationalism's push to undermine democratic norms". Religious News Service. Retrieved March 27, 2020.
- ^ Stewart, Katherine. "The New York Times Archives". Katherine Stewart. Retrieved November 3, 2022.
- ^ Stewart, Katherine (March 27, 2020). "The Religious Right's Hostility to Science Is Crippling Our Coronavirus Response". The New York Times. Retrieved May 11, 2020.
- ^ a b "Katherine Stewart | The Guardian". the Guardian.
- ^ "Katherine Stewart". The American Prospect.
- ^ Stewart. "A Founder of American Religious Nationalism". Columbian College of Arts & Sciences, George Washington University.
- ^ "Katherine Stewart". The Nation. January 14, 2015. Retrieved November 14, 2022.
- ^ Stewart, Katherine. "Katherine Stewart". The Atlantic. Retrieved November 14, 2022.
- ^ "Katherine Stewart". The New Republic. Retrieved January 3, 2023.
- ^ "Katherine Stewart". The Daily Beast. July 12, 2020. Retrieved November 16, 2022.
- ^ Stewart (May 2, 2005). "Mommy Mimics: So Having a Baby Wasn't Just My Idea?". The New York Observer.
- ^ Stewart (Summer 2015). "Beautiful Minds: Santa Barbara Is Where Fantasies Come to Life and Creative Icons Come to Live". Santa Barbara Magazine. pp. 168–71.
- ^ Stewart (Spring 2015). "California Gold: Our Local Waters Are Home to the World's Most Sought After Sea Urchin". Santa Barbara Magazine. pp. 126–28, 162.
- ^ "Katherine Stewart". The New York Review of Books. Retrieved December 15, 2022.
- ^ Stewart (March 2, 2020). "HOW A POWERFUL 'EX-GAY' PASTOR IS CHASING THE LATINO VOTE". Religion Dispatches.
- ^ "Book Review—The Good News Club: The Christian Right's Stealth Assault on America's Children". KirkusReviews.com. December 19, 2011. Retrieved March 27, 2020.
- ^ Heffner, Alexander (January 24, 2012). "Nonfiction Review: Book exposes the violation of church and state in schools". Minnesota Star Tribune. Retrieved March 27, 2020.
- ^ "The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism". April 14, 2020. ISSN 0015-7120. Retrieved January 18, 2021.
- ^ "The Real Meaning of Religious Liberty: A License to Discriminate≈". The New York Review of Books. February 28, 2020.
- ^ Stewart (March 20, 2020). "Why Christian Nationalists Think Trump Is Heaven-Sent". The Washington Post.
- ^ "Onward, Christian Soldiers | David Austin Walsh". The Baffler. February 28, 2020. Retrieved January 18, 2021.
- ^ "The Religious Right's Rise to Power". WNYC. March 4, 2020.
- ^ "The Power Worshippers & the Rise of Religious Nationalism w/ Katherine Stewart". The Majority Report. April 13, 2020.
- ^ Marcotte, Amanda (March 3, 2020). "Trump's Christian right worships power more than they worship God". Salon.
- ^ Boorstein, Michelle (January 12, 2024). "'God & Country' film spotlights Christian nationalism's threat to democracy". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved February 21, 2024.
- ^ Stewart, Katherine (2012). The Good New Club (1st ed.). Chapter 2: Public Affairs. p. 304. ISBN 1586488430. Retrieved October 30, 2024.
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- ^ Fidalgo, Paul (April 13, 2021). "Katherine Stewart Wins Forkosch Award For Best Humanist Book; Judith Wells Wins For Best Article". Center for Inquiry. Archived from the original on April 13, 2021. Retrieved April 14, 2021.
- ^ "Religion News Association names winners of 2021 Awards for Religion Reporting Excellence". Religion News Association. October 7, 2021. Retrieved October 26, 2022.
- ^ "Katherine Stewart, Freethought Heroine Awardee". Freedom From Religion Foundation. September 28, 2024. Retrieved November 18, 2024.
Further reading
[edit]- Brown, Emma (March 12, 2016). "These Christian teachers want to bring Jesus into public schools". The Washington Post. Retrieved March 27, 2020. Quotes Stewart, based on her authorship of The Good News Club.
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