![]() To sum the book simply, I would say it’s an especially well-written, carefully documented annotation of what has come to define evangelicalism in America. ![]() ![]() Reviewing the perspectives, mindsets, and ideologies integral to the ongoing conflation of religion with politics in the name of Christianity in America was not easy. For me, reading through Jesus and John Wayne was an arduous task. She argues (convincingly) that a “militant white evangelicalism thrives on a sense of embattlement” (p xviii). Like it or not, these ingredients promote or facilitate nationalism, racism, sexism, white maleness, authority, and political power. History scholar Kristin Kobes Du Mez rehearses the ingredients of a distinctly American evangelical culture.
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