Reviews

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

bone_empress's review

challenging dark informative slow-paced

4.0

tastyeconomics's review against another edition

dark informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

jdpillas's review against another edition

Soft DNF

michellefeif's review against another edition

dark informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

bethanycecilia's review against another edition

informative

4.5

plumjam's review against another edition

4.0

A great book about the intimate ties evangelical Christianity has to U.S. politics, societal expectations, gender idealization, and imperialism. While John Wayne is a perfect example of what Mez is arguing in this book, I feel that he wasn’t as present in the book as I had hoped/expected. That could be my fault though. Really good read.

kelsieyohe's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

laurenscholle's review against another edition

4.0

solidifying my hatred for evangelicals! good book to do so with

codergrl's review against another edition

5.0

This was very good. It brings to light a lot of the ugliness that happens in the name of religion.

julmev's review against another edition

5.0

Much of this book seems to boil down American crises in masculinity, and the economic and cultural anxieties of dominant social groups in the face of progressive changes and expansion of minority group rights.