Jesus and John Wayne
how white evangelicals corrupted a faith and fractured a nation
$28.80
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
8 July 2021
Summary
Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Remade a Faith
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 t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781631499050 |
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| ISBN-10: | 163149905X |
| Author: | Kristin Kobes Du Mez |
| Publisher: | WW Norton & Co |
| Imprint: | Liveright Publishing Corporation |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 8 July 2021 |
| Weight: | 293g |
| Dimensions: | 211mm x 137mm x 23mm |
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“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 a professor of history at Calvin University and the author of A New Gospel for Women. She has written for the Washington Post, Christianity Today, Christian Century, and Religion & Politics, among other publications. She lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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