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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]]. Her books include ''[[The Good News Club: The Christian Right's Stealth Assault on America's Children]]'' (2012) and ''The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism'' (2020).
'''Katherine Stewart''' is an American journalist and author who often writes about issues related to politics, policy, education, the global movement against liberal democracy, and the rise of religious nationalism in America and abroad. Her books include ''[[The Good News Club: The Christian Right's Stealth Assault on America's Children]]'' (2012) and ''The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism'' (2020).


== Career ==
== Career ==

Revision as of 21:02, 24 October 2022

Katherine Stewart
OccupationNonfiction author, Op-Ed writer, novelist
LanguageEnglish
CitizenshipUnited States
SubjectSeparation of church and state
Notable worksThe Good News Club (2012); The Power Worshippers (2020)
SpouseMatthew Stewart
Website
katherinestewart.me
Literature portal

Katherine Stewart is an American journalist and author who often writes about issues related to politics, policy, education, the global movement against liberal democracy, and the rise of religious nationalism in America and abroad. Her books include The Good News Club: The Christian Right's Stealth Assault on America's Children (2012) and The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism (2020).

Career

As a writer and speaker, Stewart has shown interest in controversies over religious freedom and the separation of church and state.[1] She has also written about public and science education,[2][3] public funding of faith-based initiatives, anti-LGBT initiatives on the state level,[4] and bullying in schools in the U.S.[5]

Stewart began her journalism career working for investigative reporter Wayne Barrett at The Village Voice.[6] Since 2011, she has been an op-ed contributor to The New York Times, writing more than 15 columns.[7] [8] One in March 2020 linked the slow federal response to the country's coronavirus outbreak to President Trump's connections to the far right and anti-science conservatives.[9]

Stewart has contributed opinion pieces to The Guardian,[10] and has written for The American Prospect,[11] George Washington University's History News Network,[12] The Nation, Reuters,[10] The Atlantic, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, The New York Observer,[13] Santa Barbara Magazine,[14][15] and Religion Dispatches.[16]

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."[17] 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."[18]

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.[3] It was reviewed in Foreign Affairs and was excerpted in the New York Review of Books and partially adapted in The New Republic.[19][1][20] 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".[21] Christianity Today charged Stewart with secular dogmatism, writing, "At times, her wariness toward white evangelicals and sense of conspiracy borders on the comical."[22] 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."[23] She was interviewed on The Brian Lehrer Show,[24] The Majority Report, and for Salon and Sojourners.[3][25][26]

Personal life

Stewart was raised in Brookline, Massachusetts where she attended the Runkle School and Brookline High School.[27] She is Jewish and her husband was raised Roman Catholic; they have a daughter.[28][29]

Books

Nonfiction

  • Stewart, Katherine (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. {{cite book}}: |author= has numeric name (help)

Fiction

Awards

See also

References

  1. ^ 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."
  2. ^ Stewart (December 13, 2016). "Opinion: Betsy DeVos and God's Plan for Schools".
  3. ^ a b c Camacho, Daniel José (March 3, 2020). "THE LONG-TERM VISION OF THE CHRISTIAN NATIONALIST MOVEMENT". Sojourners.
  4. ^ "Katherine Stewart". The Nation.
  5. ^ Stewart (November 7, 2016). "Donald Trump Has Unleashed a New Wave of Bullying in Schools". The Nation.
  6. ^ Shimron, Yonat (March 6, 2020). "Katherine Stewart on Christian nationalism's push to undermine democratic norms". Religious News Service. Retrieved March 27, 2020.
  7. ^ "Contributors" – via NYTimes.com.
  8. ^ Stewart, Katherine (November 16, 2020). "Opinion | Trump or No Trump, Religious Authoritarianism Is Here to Stay". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved January 18, 2021.
  9. ^ Steward, Katherine (March 27, 2020). "The Religious Right's Hostility to Science Is Crippling Our Coronavirus Response". The New York Times. Retrieved May 11, 2020.
  10. ^ a b "Katherine Stewart | The Guardian". the Guardian.
  11. ^ "Katherine Stewart". The American Prospect.
  12. ^ Stewart. "A Founder of American Religious Nationalism". Columbian College of Arts & Sciences, George Washington University.
  13. ^ Stewart (May 2, 2005). "Mommy Mimics: So Having a Baby Wasn't Just My Idea?". The New York Observer.
  14. ^ 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.
  15. ^ 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.
  16. ^ Stewart (March 2, 2020). "HOW A POWERFUL 'EX-GAY' PASTOR IS CHASING THE LATINO VOTE". Religion Dispatches.
  17. ^ Kirkus Staff (December 19, 2011). "Book Review—The Good News Club: The Christian Right's Stealth Assault on America's Children". KirkusReviews.com. Retrieved March 27, 2020.
  18. ^ Heffner, Alexander (January 24, 2012). "Nonfiction Review: Book exposes the violation of church and state in schools". Minnesota Star Tribune. Retrieved March 27, 2020.
  19. ^ "The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism". April 14, 2020. ISSN 0015-7120. Retrieved January 18, 2021.
  20. ^ "The Real Meaning of Religious Liberty: A License to Discriminate≈". The New York Review of Books. February 28, 2020.
  21. ^ Stewart (March 20, 2020). "Why Christian Nationalists Think Trump Is Heaven-Sent". The Washington Post.
  22. ^ Matthew Lee Anderson: White Evangelicals Have a Complicated Relationship with Christian Nationalism Christianity Today June 22, 2020.
  23. ^ "Onward, Christian Soldiers | David Austin Walsh". The Baffler. February 28, 2020. Retrieved January 18, 2021.
  24. ^ "The Religious Right's Rise to Power". WNYC. March 4, 2020.
  25. ^ "The Power Worshippers & the Rise of Religious Nationalism w/ Katherine Stewart". The Majority Report. April 13, 2020.
  26. ^ Marcotte, Amanda (March 3, 2020). "Trump's Christian right worships power more than they worship God". Salon.
  27. ^ Stewart, Katherine; Stewart, Matthew (June 9, 2016). "Guest commentary : Why Are Brookline schools being 'turned around'?". wickedlocal.com. 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.
  28. ^ Shimron, Yonat (March 6, 2020). "Katherine Stewart on Christian nationalism's push to undermine democratic norms". Religion News Service. 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.
  29. ^ Stewart, Matthew; Stewart, Katherine (March 7, 2017). "Neil Gorsuch's Gay "Friends" Won't Save Us on the Supreme Court". The Advocate. 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.
  30. ^ AU Staff (December 2014). "Investigative Journalist Named AU's 'Person Of The Year' at Meeting". AU.org. Retrieved March 27, 2020.
  31. ^ 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.

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