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Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin Kobes Du Mez

31 reviews

melissahawco's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Xenophobia, and Sexual harassment

lowkeymarie's review against another edition

informative slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Xenophobia, and Islamophobia

Minor: Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

aryn_back's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Xenophobia and Abortion

tamara_joy's review against another edition

informative sad tense

4.0

This explains so much. Sometimes hard to read, especially with the most recent stuff, but so well laid out.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Xenophobia, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Islamophobia, and Gaslighting

Minor: Domestic abuse, Incest, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Rape, Slavery, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, War, and Classism

risten's review against another edition

informative slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia, Racism, Rape, Sexual violence, Slavery, Transphobia, Xenophobia, Islamophobia, Religious bigotry, Abortion, Colonisation, and War

erica_palmisano's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Well researched, scrupulously end-noted, and full of insights I hadn't expected, this book is phenomenal. Absolutely a must-read for people in Evangelicalism or coming out of it. Also, important for folks seeking to understand Christian Nationalism and its impact on US Politics.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Xenophobia, Islamophobia, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Child abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Ableism, Domestic abuse, Torture, Transphobia, Abortion, Colonisation, and War

abutler's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Slavery, Transphobia, Violence, Xenophobia, Antisemitism, Islamophobia, Religious bigotry, Gaslighting, and War

chacepaulson's review against another edition

informative

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Misogyny, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, and Xenophobia

katyallred's review against another edition

dark informative medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Rape, Transphobia, Xenophobia, Islamophobia, Gaslighting, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia, and Abortion

lovelybookshelf's review against another edition

challenging informative medium-paced

4.5

How do I start? Where do I start? There is so much in this book, and it got more and more infuriating with every page.

In Jesus and John Wayne, Kristin Kobes Du Mez outlines exactly what brought white American evangelicalism to the profound state of corruption we see today, and why it's so easy for people to be carried along with it.

A heads up: This book may be intensely triggering if you have past church trauma or you've been on the receiving end of religious hate. 

Du Mez takes us through the past 75 years of American history, culture, and politics to help us understand what brought us to this point and why. Get ready for a nauseating look into Christian consumer culture, patriarchal gender traditionalism, militarism and fear-mongering, militant white masculinity, submissive femininity, Christian nationalism, and political power plays, all forged along the path of American imperialism.

What I found especially terrifying was how easy it was for evangelicals to take legitimate fears Americans had due to world events, and stoke that anxiety so that they could dive in and be the protector. James Dobson had an enormous influence on inserting evangelicalism into the American military, resulting in the dominionist ideals we see in many politicians today.

She covers the close ties between fundamentalism and evangelicalism, which explains why it's sometimes hard to tell the difference between the two. She helps us see how evangelicals played the long game through their branding, "replacing traditional denominational authorities with the authority of the market and the power of consumer choice." This helped them appeal to a wide audience, winning people over and gaining more followers. This is why you see members of mainline (or even progressive) denominations consuming, for example, books by evangelical authors.

So yeah,  Jesus and John Wayne is a difficult book to read, content-wise. I felt sick to my stomach most of the time. But it's an important read, and if you've ever wondered why there are people who are okay with all of this, you'll gain a whole lot of insight. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Transphobia, Xenophobia, and Islamophobia

Minor: Infidelity, Rape, and Sexual assault