Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

by Kristin Kobes Du Mez and Kristin Kobes Du Mez

Book Overview

Jesus and John Wayne is a sweeping, revisionist history of the last seventy-five years of white evangelicalism, revealing how evangelicals have worked to replace the Jesus of the Gospels with an idol of rugged masculinity and Christian nationalism--or in the words of one modern chaplain, with "a spiritual badass."

As acclaimed scholar Kristin Du Mez explains, the key to understanding this transformation is to recognize the centrality of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 163149905X
• ISBN13: 9781631499050
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

Beautifully written, thoroughly researched, and tragically eye-opening.

A must-read for American voters. Anyone looking to understand today's confusing and challenging political climate should read this book. I've just finished it and already recommended it to all my friends.