Katherine Stewart (journalist)

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
OccupationNonfiction author, op-ed writer, novelist
LanguageEnglish
CitizenshipUnited States
Subjectseparation of church and state
Notable worksThe Good News Club (2012); The Power Worshippers (2020)
Website
katherinestewart.me
 Literature portal

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 also wrote almost 20 opinion pieces for The Guardian in 2012 and 2013, and began appearing there again in 2020.[10] In addition, she 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 November 2016, Stewart wrote in The Nation about the role of Trump's shift on abortion as a factor in his 2016 election.[19] She continued to write for the publication until June 2017.[4]

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.[20][1][21] 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".[22] Christianity Today charged Stewart with secular dogmatism, writing, "At times, her wariness toward white evangelicals and sense of conspiracy borders on the comical."[23] 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."[24] She was interviewed on The Brian Lehrer Show,[25] The Majority Report, and for Salon and Sojourners.[3][26][27]

In July, her article on Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his Commission on Unalienable Rights was published by The Daily Beast.[28] In August, her piece about Betsy DeVos siphoning money out of public schools into private schools appeared in The New Republic.[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 27 March 2020.
  • — (2012). The Good News Club: The Christian Right's Stealth Assault on America's Children. PublicAffairs. ISBN 978-1-58648-843-7. Retrieved 28 April 2020.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

Fiction

Awards

See also

References
  1. See Stewart, Katherine (2 March 2020). "Faith Militant". The New Republic. Retrieved 27 March 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 (13 December 2016). "Opinion: Betsy DeVos and God's Plan for Schools".
  3. Camacho, Daniel José (3 March 2020). "THE LONG-TERM VISION OF THE CHRISTIAN NATIONALIST MOVEMENT". Sojourners.
  4. "Katherine Stewart". The Nation.
  5. Stewart (7 November 2016). "Donald Trump Has Unleashed a New Wave of Bullying in Schools". The Nation.
  6. Shimron, Yonat (6 March 2020). "Katherine Stewart on Christian nationalism’s push to undermine democratic norms". Religious News Service. Retrieved 27 March 2020.
  7. "Contributors" – via NYTimes.com.
  8. Stewart, Katherine (2020-11-16). "Opinion | Trump or No Trump, Religious Authoritarianism Is Here to Stay". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-01-18.
  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. "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 (2 May 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 (2 March 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 27 March 2020.
  18. Heffner, Alexander (24 January 2012). "Nonfiction Review: Book exposes the violation of church and state in schools". Minnesota Star Tribune. Retrieved 27 March 2020.
  19. Stewart (17 November 2016). "Eighty-One Percent of White Evangelicals Voted for Donald Trump. Why?". The Nation. Retrieved 27 March 2020.
  20. "The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism". 2020-04-14. ISSN 0015-7120. Retrieved 2021-01-18.
  21. "The Real Meaning of Religious Liberty: A License to Discriminate≈". The New York Review of Books. 28 February 2020.
  22. Stewart (20 March 2020). "Why Christian Nationalists Think Trump Is Heaven-Sent". The Washington Post.
  23. Matthew Lee Anderson: White Evangelicals Have a Complicated Relationship with Christian Nationalism Christianity Today June 22, 2020.
  24. "Onward, Christian Soldiers | David Austin Walsh". The Baffler. 2020-02-28. Retrieved 2021-01-18.
  25. "The Religious Right's Rise to Power". WNYC. 4 March 2020.
  26. "The Power Worshippers & the Rise of Religious Nationalism w/ Katherine Stewart". The Majority Report. 13 April 2020.
  27. Marcotte, Amanda (3 March 2020). "Trump's Christian right worships power more than they worship God". Salon.
  28. Stewart, Katherine (2020-07-12). "Mike Pompeo and the Global Holy War Against Liberal Democracy". The Daily Beast. Retrieved 2021-01-18.
  29. Stewart, Katherine (2020-08-13). "Betsy DeVos's Plot to Enrich Private Schools Amid the Pandemic". The New Republic. ISSN 0028-6583. Retrieved 2021-01-18.
  30. AU Staff (December 2014). "Investigative Journalist Named AU's 'Person Of The Year' at Meeting". AU.org. Retrieved 27 March 2020.

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