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This lucid, potent history adds a much needed religious dimension to understanding the current American right and the rise of Trump. In Jesus and John Wayne, Du Mez writes that patriarchal power began to define the boundaries of the evangelical movement itself which she describes as including complementarianism, the prohibition of homosexuality, the existence of hell, and substitutionary atonement (p.
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I have reviewed dozens of books in my professional life, but this review will be different. As I begin, please indulge me as I make a few personal prefatory remarks. Persuasively arguing that the evangelical dismissal of Trump’s flaws is the culmination of believing that “God-given testosterone came with certain side effects,” Du Mez closes with a bruising chapter on recent evangelical leaders’ abuses and sex scandals, such as those involving Mark Driscoll, Ted Haggard, and C.J. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin Kobes Du Mez (New York: Liveright, 2020), 386 pages, 18.95 (Hardback). The recent growth of homeschooling and Quiverfull (child-centric evangelical theology) and evangelicals’ suspicion of Obama are also explored. 9/11, she argues, revitalized the extreme warrior ideal for evangelical men and curtailed the softer patriarchy fostered by the Promise Keeper rallies of the 1990s. For Du Mez, the growth of Christian publishing and popular culture in the mid-century reinforced the sense that evangelicals were at war with liberal social movements like feminism and civil rights. I continue to see friends of all ages quoting and. An evangelical-focused anti-Trump book that carries academic weight. From the second it came off the press, Kristin Kobes Du Mezs Jesus and John Wayne has exploded in popularity. Starting in the early 20th century, white Christian men followed charismatic preachers in striving for a muscular, militant masculinity. While the author often paints with a broad brush, characterizing white evangelicals throughout as racist, hypernationalistic, and utterly patriarchal, readers not on the fringe right will find it difficult to take issue with her arguments. Historian Du Mez ( A New Gospel for Women) explains white evangelical support for Trump in this engaging history of the shifting ideal of Christian masculinity.