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Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
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Author:
Kristin Kobes Du Mez
Publisher:
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Date:
June 23, 2020
A scholar of American Christianity presents a 75-year history of evangelicalism that identifies the forces that have turned Donald Trump into a hero of the Religious Right.
What The Reviewers Say
... impressive.
Du Mez argues, using an extensive amount of research, that white evangelical culture often glorifies the aggressive, patriarchal idea of manhood, which has become intertwined with what it means to be a conservative Christian in the modern age.
Kristin Kobes Du Mez...has assembled all the top personalities and all the turning points in a fast-moving, if stomach-churning history that ultimately explains how America adopted Donald Trump. It is less than pretty.
... an insightful examination of white Christian masculinities from the era of Billy Graham and John Wayne to Mark Driscoll and Donald Trump.
