Radical Reports Book Club: Jesus and John Wayne
Radical Reports Book Club: Jesus and John Wayne
Kristin Kobes Du Mez's 'seventy-five-year history history of evangelicalism that identifies the forces that have turned Donald Trump into a hero of the Religious Right.'
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This month, the Racial Reports book club will be reading Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin Kobes Du Mez:
“Jesus and John Wayne is a sweeping account of the last seventy-five years of white evangelicalism, showing how 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.” As Du Mez explains, the key to understanding this transformation is to recognize the role of culture in modern American evangelicalism.”
Du Mez, professor of history and gender studies at Calvin University, has written for numerous publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Religion News Service, and Christianity Today, and you can also find her writings on Substack:
