Excerpts: Simple hypocrisy is the simplest answer. Others see evangelical support for Trump as nothing more than transactional politics. Kristen Kobes Du Mez, a history professor at Calvin College, isn’t buying either of these explanations. In Jesus and John Wayne: How White…
Kristin Kobes Du MezJuly 26, 2020
Excerpts: While much has been reported and written about the disenfranchisement of working-class America and white “fly-over country,” Ms. Du Mez digs deeper into the evolution (no pun intended) of the white, masculine, American-branded faith that most of the rest…
Kristin Kobes Du MezJuly 26, 2020
Excerpts: Du Mez’s brilliant and engaging Jesus and John Wayne traces how evangelicals used their power to protect patriarchy over the last few generations.Matthew Avery Sutton, The New Republic Trump’s victory, she writes, was “the culmination of evangelicals’ embrace of militant masculinity,…
Kristin Kobes Du MezJuly 16, 2020
Screencapture, Washington Post, July 16, 2020 Excerpts: Perhaps the mistake Harris and Nichols are making is positioning their analysis “in the 20th-century tradition.” Gender norms have shifted and broadened since then. Traits of stoicism and self-reliance are not only the…
Kristin Kobes Du MezJuly 16, 2020
Screencapture of Financial Times (Chinese), July 16, 2020 Mary Ma. "The Gospel of Trump and his Last Temptation." Interview with Kristin Kobes Du Mez. Financial Times (Chinese). July 16, 2020. http://www.ftchinese.com/story/001088577
Kristin Kobes Du MezJuly 16, 2020
Screencapture, Christ and Pop Culture, July 13, 2020 Excerpts: Du Mez keeps company with Christians who ask why Donald Trump speaks at their alma maters, screams through their parents’ television sets, and steals the allegiance of their pastors. Rather than…
Kristin Kobes Du MezJuly 13, 2020
Vox, Screencapture, July 12, 2020 Excerpts: . . . I’ve studied evangelicals for a long time and I was watching them very closely during the election and in the aftermath, and I just didn’t see any regrets at all. There…
Kristin Kobes Du MezJuly 12, 2020
Interview on July 7, 2020. Religion & Politics. Excerpts: R&P: This book grew out of a piece that you wrote for Religion & Politics, correct? KKD: Yes! Since about 2010, I had been giving talks on evangelicalism and masculinity and had been approached by…
Kristin Kobes Du MezJuly 8, 2020
July 7, 2020 . Iowa Public Radio. Iowa Public Radio "River to River" / Screencapture, July 5, 2020 River to River is Iowa Public Radio's talk program focusing on the news, issues and events in our state. This national award-winning program…
Kristin Kobes Du MezJuly 5, 2020