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Loading... Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation (edition 2021)by Kristin Kobes Du Mez (Author)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Interesting history of the movement from about the past 100 years. My only complaint about the book is that by the end it feels like she is beating a dead horse, due to all the repetition throughout. ( ) Interesting insight into the role of "masculinity" in evangelical circles and their political influence. A lot of things that made me want to throw up, particularly in the last chapter about abuse in these churches and their hypocritical coverups. But it goes to explain a lot about why "family values" don't matter at the end, as long as the abuser represents a strong male leading figureā¦ I will be pondering the content and substance of this book for a long time to come. A favorite author of mine, Heidi Chiavaroli, recommended this book, or I would not have known about it. She said it would be a difficult subject matter but needed to be read. Upon completing this book, I agree that everyone should read it. It was an eye-opening experience. Maybe if more people read it, we can work together to unite this nation once again and return to the faith of the first Christians. no reviews | add a review
"A scholar of American Christianity answers perhaps the most bewildering question of our time: Why are evangelicals "the Donald's" most fervent supporters? Donald Trump is a libertine who lacks even basic knowledge of the Christian faith. Yet in 2016 he won 81 percent of the white evangelical vote, and continues to rely on white evangelicals as his base of support. While we assume the religious right has pragmatic reasons for backing Trump, in truth he represents the fulfillment of evangelicals' most deeply held values. As historian Kristin Kobes Du Mez demonstrates, American evangelicals have worked for decades to replace the Jesus of the Gospels with an idol of rugged masculinity and Christian nationalism-or, in the words of one modern chaplain, with "a spiritual badass." Trump is hardly the first flashy celebrity to capture evangelicals' hearts and minds, having followed the path blazed by, among others, John Wayne, Oliver North, and Mel Gibson. A revelatory account of a uniquely influential subculture, Jesus and John Wayne incisively reveals why evangelicals have rallied behind patriarchal power and the least- Christian president in American history"-- No library descriptions found. |
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