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'{{BLP refimprove |date = March 2020}} {{Infobox writer | embed = | honorific_prefix = | name = Katherine Stewart | honorific_suffix = | image = Katherine Stewart close-up.jpg | image_size = | image_upright = | alt = | caption = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | pseudonym = | birth_name = | birth_date = <!-- {{Birth date and age|YYYY|MM|DD}} --> | birth_place = | death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} --> | death_place = | resting_place = | occupation = Nonfiction author, [[Op-Ed]] writer, novelist | language = English | residence = | nationality = | citizenship = United States | education = | alma_mater = | home_town = | period = | genre = <!-- or: | genres = --> | subject = [[separation of church and state]] | movement = | notable_works = ''[[The Good News Club (book)|The Good News Club]]'' (2012); ''[[The Power Worshippers]] (2020) | spouse = <!-- or: | spouses = --> | partner = <!-- or: | partners = --> | children = | relatives = | awards = | signature = | signature_alt = | years_active = | module = | website = {{URL|katherinestewart.net}} | portaldisp = on }} <!--MOVING ALL CITATIONS INTO THE MAIN BODY, TO ENSURE MATERIAL APPEARS THERE.--> '''Katherine Stewart''' is an [[American people|American]] [[journalist]] and [[author]], often writing about issues related to the [[separation of church and state]]. Her work has appeared extensively in ''[[The New York Times]]'' and ''[[The Guardian]]'',<ref name=NYTBiblio>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/section/opinion/contributors|title=Contributors|via=NYTimes.com}}</ref><ref name = GuardianBiblio>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/profile/katherine-stewart|title=Katherine Stewart &#124; The Guardian|website=the Guardian}}</ref> at the ''[[The American Prospect]]'',<ref name = AmerProspectBiblio>{{Cite web|url=https://prospect.org/topics/katherine-stewart/|title=Katherine Stewart|website=The American Prospect}}</ref> as well as in ''[[The Nation]]'', ''[[Reuters.com]]'', ''[[The Atlantic]],'' ''[[Newsweek International|Newsweek]]'', ''[[Rolling Stone]]'', ''[[The New York Observer]]'', and other publications.{{citation needed lead|date = March 2020}} Stewart has appeared on [[The Brian Lehrer Show]], and other media programs.{{what|date = March 2020}}{{verification needed|date = March 2020}} == Background == Katharine Stewart was born in [[Boston, Massachusetts]].{{when|date = March 2020}}{{cn|date = March 2020}} She is Jewish.<ref>Shimron, Yonat (6 March 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 27 March 2020.</ref> As a writer and speaker, Stewart has shown interest in controversies over [[religious freedom]] and the [[separation of church and state]].<ref name = KSNewRepublic20200302/> In addition, she has written on the topics of [[public education|public]] and [[science education]],{{cn|date = March 2020}} [[climate science]],{{cn|date = March 2020}} the [[public funding]] of [[faith-based initiatives]],{{cn|date = March 2020}} and [[bullying in schools]] in the U.S.{{cn|date = March 2020}} <!--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.--> == Career == {{multiple issues|section = yes| {{BLP refimprove|section|date = March 2020}} {{expand section | independent, third-party reports on aspects of her career, allowing for presentation of a chronology, and when these involve writings, a consistent and balanced representation of critical responses (with bibliographic detail like publisher appearing in bulleted entries in next section) | small = no|date = March 2020}} }} Stewart began her career in [[journalism]] working for [[investigative reporter]] [[Wayne Barrett]] at ''[[The Village Voice]]''.{{when|date = March 2020}}{{cn|date = March 2020}} Since 2011, Stewart has written on the themes and figures that interest her as an [[op-ed]] contributor to the ''[[The New York Times]],'' with more than 15 appearing over the near decade-long affiliation.<ref name=NYTBiblio/><!--EXAMPLES OF NYT OP-EDS DO NOT GO HERE. BIOGRAPHICAL SOURCES STATING HER CAREER ELEMENTS GO HERE, AND THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HER WORK GOES IN A SEPARATE SECTION. IF ANY GIVEN NYT OPINION BECOMES THE SUBJECT OF REPORTING BY OTHERS, ADD PROSE AND SOURCE ABOUT THAT IN THIS SECTION, WHERE IT IS CHRONOLOGICALLY APPROPRIATE.--> The latest is a piece that connected the slow federal response to the [[COVID19 in US|country's coronavirus outbreak]] to President Trump's connections to the [[far right]] and [[anti-science]] conservatives.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/27/opinion/coronavirus-trump-evangelicals.html</ref> She wrote opinion pieces extensively for ''[[The Guardian]]'' in 2012 and 2013, almost 20 pieces, and has begun appearing there again in 2020.<ref name = GuardianBiblio/> In addition, Stewart has written for the following other periodicals:<!--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 New York Review of Books]],''<ref>https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2020/02/28/the-real-meaning-of-religious-liberty-a-license-to-discriminate/</ref> In 2012, in response to [[Good News Club|that group's]]'s involvement in her children's public school, she wrote ''[[The Good News Club: The Christian Right’s Stealth Assault on America’s Children]]''.<!--EARLIER WASHPO CITATION DIT NOT SUPPORT SENTENCE, MOVED TO FURTHER READING.--> ''[[Kirkus]]'' described the book as "[c]ompelling investigative journalism about an undercovered phenomenon."<ref name=Kirk>{{cite web|author = Kirkus Staff | 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 = 27 March 2020 }}</ref> Alexander Heffner of the ''[[Minnesota Star Tribune]]'', whose review describes the book as "expos[ing] the violation of church and state in schools", further describes it as "an important work" and "a fascinating expose", and Stewart as "a great digger for facts" and as "a respectful narrator."<ref name=StarT>{{cite news|last=Heffner|first=Alexander|date=24 January 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 = 27 March 2020 }}</ref> In March 2020, Stewart published ''[[The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism]]''{{what|date = March 2020}} which was excerpted in the ''[[New York Review of Books]]''.{{cn|date = March 2020}} An essay she adapted from the book has appeared in ''[[The New Republic]]''.<ref name = KSNewRepublic20200302>See {{cite news|title=Faith Militant|url=https://newrepublic.com/article/156415/faith-militant|work=The New Republic|first=Katherine|last=Stewart|date= 2 March 2020| access-date = 27 March 2020 | quote = }}, 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> ==Topics== <!--These appeared earlier as commentaries in the career section—but they are not career entries, unless the work resulted in third-party observation about their importance with regard to the development of her career. EVEN SEPARATED, THIS SECTION NEEDS TO CITE SOMEONE WHO IS SAYING THE ARTICLES ARE NOTABLE. MOST ALL WRITERS WRITE ALOT. WE NEED SOMEONE SAYING THAT THESE, OR OTHER THINGS SHE SHE WROTE ARE PARTICULARLY NOTABLE.--> Stewart's writings have elicited responses from Salon, The Brian Lehrer Show, and from religious quarters, as evidenced in ''[[Sojourners]]''.<ref name=Sa20>https://www.salon.com/2020/03/03/trump-christian-right-power-worshippers-katherine-stewart/</ref><ref name=wnyc>https://www.wnyc.org/story/religious-rights-rise-power/</ref><ref name=Sojo>https://sojo.net/articles/katherine-stewart-power-worshippers</ref> In February 2013, Stewart wrote for ''[[Religion Dispatches]]'' about the case of [[Encinitas, California]] parents who filed a complaint in 2013 with their [[San Diego County|county]] about their school district offering yoga in their children's program, where, per Stewart's description, a lead sponsoring parent, Mary Eady, worked at [[Truthxchange]], a Christian organization with the stated mission of “respond[ing] to the rising tide of neopaganism,” and the effort's attorney, Dean Broyles of the [[National Center for Law & Policy]] in [[Escondido, California]] "asserting that the Sun Salutation [in yoga] constitutes sun-worship."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://religiondispatches.org/protesting-yoga-in-schools-but-welcoming-bible-study/|title=Protesting Yoga in Schools, But Welcoming Bible Study|first=Katherine|last=Stewart|date=February 25, 2013|website=Religion Dispatches}}</ref> In November 2016, Stewart wrote in ''[[The Nation]]'' about the role of [[Donald J. Trump]]'s shift on abortion as a factor in his [[2016 U.S. Presidential Election|2016 election win]].<ref>{{cite journal|url= https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/eighty-one-percent-of-white-evangelicals-voted-for-donald-trump-why/|title=Eighty-One Percent of White Evangelicals Voted for Donald Trump. Why?|author=Stewart, Katherine|date=17 November 2016|journal=[[The Nation]] | access-date = 27 March 2020}}</ref> ==Published works== ===Books=== <!--Works in reverse chronological order. First entry each subsection has full name, remaining are "—, —" unless with co-author. FULL CITATIONS, INCLUDING URL AND ISBN, PLEASE.--> ====Nonfiction==== * {{cite book | author = Stewart, Katherine | year = March 2020 | title = The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism | others = | location = New York, NY | publisher = [[Bloomsbury Publishing|Bloomsbury]] | edition = 1st | isbn = 9781635573459 | url = https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-power-worshippers-9781635573459 | access-date = 27 March 2020 | pages = }} * {{cite book | author = — | year = 2012 | title = The Good News Club: The Christian Right’s Stealth Assault on America’s Children | others = | location = | publisher = [[PublicAffairs]] | pages = | isbn = 978-1-58648-843-7 | url = https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/katherine-stewart/the-good-news-club/9781610390507/ | access-date = 28 April 2020 | quote = }} <!--Along with [[music journalist]] Evelyn McDonnell, she cowrote a book about the musical [[Rent (musical)|''Rent'']] in 1997. EVIDENCE NOT FOUND, IF FOUND, BULLET HERE.--> ====Fiction==== * {{cite book | author = Stewart, Katherine | year = 2006 | title = Class Mothers | others = | location = | publisher = [[Penguin Books|Penguin]]–[[Berkley Publishing|Berkley]] | pages = | isbn = 9781101220542 | url = https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/295283/class-mothers-by-katherine-stewart/9781101220542 | access-date = 28 April 2020 | quote = }} * {{cite book | author = — | year = 2005 | title = The Yoga Mamas | others = | location = | publisher = [[Penguin Books|Penguin]]–[[Berkley Publishing|Berkley]] | pages = | isbn = | url = | access-date = | quote = }}{{full|date=March 2020}} ==Awards== *2014 [[Americans United for Separation of Church and State|Americans United]] Person of the Year.<ref>{{cite web|author = AU Staff | url=https://www.au.org/church-state/december-2014-church-state/people-events/investigative-journalist-named-au-s-person-of|title=Investigative Journalist Named AU's 'Person Of The Year' at Meeting|work=AU.org|date=December 2014|access-date = 27 March 2020}}</ref> ==See also== *[[Child evangelism movement]] ==References== {{reflist}} ==Further reading== * {{cite journal|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/these-christian-teachers-want-to-bring-jesus-into-public-schools--legally/2016/03/12/bfd95986-dfd3-11e5-8d98-4b3d9215ade1_story.html|title=These Christian teachers want to bring Jesus into public schools|last=Brown|first=Emma|date=12 March 2016|journal=The Washington Post| access-date = 27 March 2020}} Quotes Stewart, based on her authorship of ''The Good News Club''. ==External links== *{{Official website|https://katherinestewart.me/}} * [http://www.thegoodnewsclub.com ''The Good News Club'' website.] * [https://www.minnpost.com/learning-curve/2012/06/katherine-stewart-how-christian-clubs-schools-turned-faith-based-bullying ''[[MinnPost.com]]'' review of Stewart's ''Good News Club''] <!-- Minnisota Star Trib review is cited in the article, appears in the references.--> {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Stewart, Katherine}} [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Year of birth missing (living people)]] [[Category:Writers from Boston]] [[Category:American women journalists]] [[Category:21st-century American non-fiction writers]] [[Category:21st-century American women writers]] [[Category:Writers about religion and science]]'