![]() As such, this review is framed thematically rather than strictly chronologically. Du Mez’s study persuasively illustrates how the fusion of race and gender have effectively transformed religious and theological notions of sex, power, and political choice among white evangelical demographics, thereby shifting the course and tonality of American evangelicalism in the process.Īs an historical survey, the book covers several overlapping historical periods in American Christian culture. ![]() ![]() As a religious history at the intersection of gender, white evangelicalism, and popular culture, Du Mez’s Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation advances a provocative argument: White evangelical Christianity over the course of the last century has been distinguished more through its endurance as a cultural and political movement than by its theology (298), and the mark of its particular cultural moorings is its coalescence around the assertion of authoritarian white masculinity. This Jesus, or rather, the evangelicalized trope of Jesus, is an archetype of a militant masculinity that evangelicals have fashioned to anchor their battles against the major wedge culture wars of our time (295). The Jesus of white evangelical Christianity, writes Kristin Du Mez, is a veritable “badass.”
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