Jesusland

“It’s a valuable contribution to the literature on conservative Christianity’s growing mainstream influence.” — Publishers Weekly
“The author’s argument provides much food for thought.” — Library Journal
“This is not just a strikingly timely book, it is also a fascinating, funny, upsetting and, in the end, beautiful one…Jesusland is the work of an emerging writer — a true writer — already displaying the will and conviction to do the dirty work, the care to think systematically and exhaustively about the cumbersome data, the modesty not just to gander without but also to peer within and the verve to whip it all into a whole built on prose that flows, darts, returns and comes to apt rests again and again.” — The Winnipeg Free Press
“A delightful and thoughtful insider’s tour through the Y2K culture wars that pitted evangelicals against the devilish masses and now tell us so much about our fractured political present.” — Sarah Berman, author of Don’t Call It a Cult
“This book is 10⁄10. Jesusland is an essential read that is part memoir, part hilarious pop-culture analysis, and part investigative journalism that critiques the Christian evangelical subculture of the early 2000s. If you want to understand the origins and agenda of our current political climate, read this book.” — Tara Teng, author of Your Body is a Revolution
“I could not put down Jesusland: Stories from the Upside Down World of Christian Pop Culture. Joelle Kidd was speaking my language. While Joelle’s primary intention might have been an inside look at how an ultra-conservative Christian movement used every secular trick of the trade to groom an entire generation of children, what was revealed was a dangerous organization that not only threatened a woman’s rights and worth but was slowly becoming a global threat…a must read.” — Gilbert Speaks, BiffBamPop!
“An introspective memoir/media criticism. Recommended for readers interested in left-leaning religious memoirs.” — Library Journal
“Joelle Kidd boldly explores evangelicalism as a unique and complex subculture, where holy books can be repackaged with traditional gender markers, where a religion that denounces greed can also be the home of prosperity gospel, and where peace and love meet ‘muscular’ Christianity.” — Jen and James Bryant, creators of Fundie Fridays

Joelle Kidd is a writer, award-winning journalist, and editor living in Toronto. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in outlets including The Walrus, LitHub, Catapult, PRISM International, Prairie Fire, and This Magazine. Joelle holds an MFA from the University of Guelph’s Creative Writing program. Jesusland is her first book.

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