Jesus and John Wayne (eBook)

How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

Kristin Kobes Du Mez (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
384 Seiten
Liveright (Verlag)
978-1-63149-574-8 (ISBN)

Infos

In Jesus and John Wayne, a seventy-five-year history of American evangelicalism, Kristin Kobes Du Mez demolishes the myth that white evangelicals "e;held their noses"e; in voting for Donald Trump. Revealing the role of popular culture in evangelicalism, Du Mez shows how evangelicals have worked for decades to replace the Jesus of the Gospels with an idol of rugged masculinity and Christian nationalism in the mould of Ronald Reagan, Mel Gibson and above all, John Wayne. As Du Mez observes, the beliefs at the heart of white evangelicalism today preceded Trump and will outlast him.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.6.2020
• Zusatzinfo: 15 black-and-white illustrations
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: 2016 election • american christians • authoritarian • bill gothard • Billy Graham • christian coalition • Christianity • Christian Right • Conservative • Donald Trump • Eisenhower • evangelical • Focus On the Family • Fundamentalist • Hobby Lobby • James Dobson • Jerry Falwell • marabel morgan • Masculinity • Moral Majority • neocon • Patriarchy • postwar christianity • Promise Keepers • Religious Right • Republican • Ronald Reagan
• ISBN-10: 1-63149-574-7 / 1631495747
• ISBN-13: 978-1-63149-574-8 / 9781631495748