Reviews tagging 'Sexual violence'

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

16 reviews

risten's review against another edition

informative slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

erica_palmisano's review

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

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

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

c100's review

challenging dark informative reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Misogyny, and Sexual assault

boyish's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Sexual violence

spookyfaith's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

5.0

 

holy shit I don’t have the words to describe this book. I had been waiting for months for it to release and wow was it worth the wait. 

this is absolutely required reading for anyone who grew up evangelical, whether you’re deconstructing or not. it goes into the historical details of how American evangelicalism was shaped by toxic masculinity and white nationalism. it explains how politics, capitalism, and modern culture have created the version of Christianity we know today, in America. 

I knew so much of Christian theology stemmed from conservative politics, power, and abuse but I had no idea the horrific depths it went to. the people that have made evangelicalism what it is today did so out of the desire for power and selfish ambition, and as a result, thousands of individuals are now the victims of abuse of many kinds, (myself included.) 

bad things don’t just happen in churches; they are primed to happen. the abuse, racism, homophobia, and the “othering” of all non white, cishet men is the direct result of the culture and theology we have built. abuse is the natural consequence of a theology based on militantancy, toxic masculinity, and complementarianism. once we can recognize how much of our beliefs don’t actually stem from the Bible, but rather from relatively new interpretations of scripture and a lot of cultural baggage. 

If you read one book this year, make it this one. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Rape, Islamophobia, and Homophobia

Content about spiritual abuse

j_sherrill's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

4.0

As someone who has grown up sort of on the fringes of evangelical Christianity in America and as someone who is perplexed by the evangelical obsession with Donald Trump, I felt this was an important book for me to read. I did not expect it to be as challenging as it was. To me, at times this book felt pretty dry and dense and I found myself zoning out. I was just bored at times. In spite of this, I feel like this is an important book for any evangelical Christian to read and it is well worth the time and effort required to read it. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Infidelity, Misogyny, Racism, Rape, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, and Transphobia