Jesus and John Wayne

How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

Kristin Kobes Du Mez (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

384 Seiten

2021
Liveright Publishing Corporation (Verlag)
978-1-63149-905-0 (ISBN)

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“It is impossible to do justice to the richness of Jesus and John Wayne”—Chrissy Stroop, The Boston Globe

In Jesus and John Wayne, a seventy-five-year history of American evangelicalism, Kristin Kobes Du Mez demolishes the myth that white evangelicals “held their noses” 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.

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.

Erscheinungsdatum	16.06.2021
Zusatzinfo	15 black-and-white illustrations
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 211 mm
Gewicht	327 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-10	1-63149-905-X / 163149905X
ISBN-13	978-1-63149-905-0 / 9781631499050
Zustand	Neuware