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'{{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_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.me}} | portaldisp = on }} '''Katherine Stewart''' is an [[American people|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). Her writing has been published in ''[[The New York Times]],'' ''[[The Guardian]]'', ''[[The American Prospect]]'', ''[[Reuters.com|Reuters]]'', ''[[The Atlantic]],'' ''[[Newsweek International|Newsweek]]'', ''[[Rolling Stone]]'', ''Santa Barbara Magazine'', and other outlets. She has been interviewed by [[Salon (website)|Salon]] and ''[[Sojourners]]'' and has also appeared on ''[[The Brian Lehrer Show]],'' and the [[podcast]] [[The Majority Report|''The Majority Report with Sam Seder'']]. == Career == As a writer and speaker, she 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=13 December 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/> 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=7 November 2016}}</ref> <!--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.--> Stewart began her career in [[journalism]] working for [[investigative reporter]] [[Wayne Barrett]] at ''[[The Village Voice]]''.<ref name=RNS/> Since 2011, she has been an [[op-ed]] contributor to ''[[The New York Times]],'' writing more than 15 columns.<ref name=NYTBiblio>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/section/opinion/contributors|title=Contributors|via=NYTimes.com}}</ref> <!--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.--> Her latest 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>{{cite news|last=Steward|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 also wrote almost 20 opinion pieces for ''[[The Guardian]]'' in 2012 and 2013, and began appearing there again in 2020.<ref name = GuardianBiblio>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/profile/katherine-stewart|title=Katherine Stewart &#124; The Guardian|website=the Guardian}}</ref> In addition, she 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>--><!--But she states it in her bio here: https://katherinestewart.me/about/--> ''[[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]]'', ''[[Reuters.com|Reuters]]'', ''[[The Atlantic]],'' ''[[Newsweek International|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=2 May 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|pp=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|pp=126-28, 162|date=Spring 2015}}</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=2 March 2020|publisher=Religion Dispatches}}</ref> In 2012, after seeing [[Good News Club|that group's]] involvement in her children's public school, she 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|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]]'' 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=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 November 2016, Stewart wrote in ''[[The Nation]]'', for which she had been writing since January 2015, about the role of Trump's shift on abortion as a factor in his [[2016 U.S. Presidential Election|2016 election]].<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?|last=Stewart|date=17 November 2016|journal=[[The Nation]] | access-date = 27 March 2020}}</ref> She continued to write for the publication until June 2017.<ref name=natn2>{{cite news|url=https://www.thenation.com/?s=Katherine+Stewart&post_type=article|title=Katherine Stewart|work=The Nation}}</ref> 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 grab for power, linking it historically to movements against abolition, the New Deal, and civil rights.<ref name=Sojo/> The book was excerpted in the ''[[New York Review of Books]]'' and partially adapted 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><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≈|publisher=New York Review of Books|date=28 February 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|publisher=The Washington Post|date=20 March 2020}}</ref> Stewart 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=4 March 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=3 March 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=13 April 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|publisher=Salon|last=Marcotte|first=Amanda|date=3 March 2020}}</ref> In April 2020, she was quoted in a ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' article about Trump's ties to the Christian hard right.<ref>{{cite news|last=Moser|first=Bob|title=Welcome to the Trumpocalypse|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-evangelicals-apocalypse-coronavirus-981995/|publisher=rollingstone.com|date=April 11, 2020|access-date=May 11, 2020}}</ref> == Personal life == Stewart is Jewish.<ref name=RNS>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> ==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] {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Stewart, Katherine}} [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Year of birth missing (living people)]] [[Category:American women journalists]] [[Category:American women historians]] [[Category:21st-century American non-fiction writers]] [[Category:21st-century American women writers]] [[Category:Writers about religion and science]] [[Category:The New York Times people]] [[Category:The Guardian people]] [[Category:Jewish American writers]] [[Category:Jewish American journalists]]'