Jesus and John Wayne
How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
$25.30
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
9 July 2021
Summary
Jesus and John Wayne is a sweeping, revisionist history of the last seventy-five years of white evangelicalism, revealing how evangelicals have worked 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.”
As acclaimed scholar Kristin Du Mez explains, the key to understanding this transformation is to recognize the centrality of popular culture in contemporary American…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781631499050 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 163149905X |
| Author: | Kristin Kobes Du Mez |
| Publisher: | W W Norton & Co Ltd |
| Imprint: | Liveright Publishing Corporation |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 9 July 2021 |
| Weight: | 298g |
| Dimensions: | 211mm x 140mm x 23mm |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
“Kristin Kobes Du Mez takes on [the Religious Right’s] version of toxic masculinity in her book Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation… Du Mez writes from the inside. She was raised in the Christian Reformed Church, a splinter sect of the Dutch Reformed Church.” – Anne Nelson - Times Literary Supplement
About The Author
Kristin Kobes Du Mez
Kristin Kobes Du Mez is professor of history at Calvin University. She is currently a senior democracy fellow with the Public Religion Research Institute. She has written for The New York Times and The Washington Post and been interviewed on NPR, PBS, and the BBC, among other outlets. She lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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