Reviews tagging 'Sexual harassment'

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

37 reviews

burdasnest's review

challenging informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.75

 At times nauseating, I ultimately think this is a must-read for understanding the United States today. This treatise establishes facts and presents a comprehensive explanation of how masculinity has been especially twisted over the past century to the point of electing Donald Trump. It's tough to swallow, but it feels like a large chunk of the population are living in a completely different established reality, even in my own backyard. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual violence, Slavery, Transphobia, Xenophobia, Abortion, Sexual harassment, and War

Minor: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Fatphobia, Genocide, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Antisemitism, and Gaslighting

oramayjutila's review against another edition

challenging dark informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

readingbrb's review

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Homophobia, Racism, Islamophobia, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Child abuse, Rape, and Sexual assault

montyalmoro's review against another edition

dark informative slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Child abuse, Homophobia, Pedophilia, Racism, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Slavery, Islamophobia, Religious bigotry, and Sexual harassment

sorry_imbooked's review

challenging emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Sexism, Islamophobia, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Racism

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Infidelity, Sexual assault, Transphobia, and Sexual harassment

caikey11's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

It’s hard to formulate thoughts on this one right now. An important read. 

Sharing a massive trigger warning for the last chapter, which examines the church’s failure to prevent, respond to, and protect sexual victimization of children and women in the church. Even working extensively (8+ years, heavily focused on trauma and primarily on childhood sexual abuse) with this subject, this chapter was triggering and overwhelming to me. And one point I had to just put it away for a while. Take good care, especially if you have sexual trauma with or without religious trauma.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Sexual assault, Religious bigotry, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Physical abuse, Racism, and Islamophobia

knunderb's review against another edition

challenging informative sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Xenophobia

Moderate: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Religious bigotry, Sexual harassment, and War

mfrisk's review against another edition

informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

I can’t even begin to express how much I want everyone I know to read this book. It maps out with care, critique, and precision the rise of the religious right over time and where the cultural met the religious aspects of evangelism to bring us to the state of fear and anger which has stoked bubbling hatred and concealed abuse. I think this book is extremely important for those in politics or involved in civic engagement in any way to read as well as those who practice religion in a way which goes against the harmful ideals detailed in this book. It is not a guidebook to the other side of the harm which has been created but to better understand this movement is to know how to deconstruct it and I feel more informed having read this book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Religious bigotry, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Ableism, Child abuse, Homophobia, Infidelity, Racism, Sexism, Violence, Xenophobia, Islamophobia, Trafficking, and War

Minor: Gun violence, Transphobia, and Abortion

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