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Reviews: Jesus and John Wayne

Reviews of Jesus and John Wayne

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Jesus and John Wayne Selected as one of 2020’s “Most Intriguing Books on Religion,” Religion News Service

Excerpts: Our reading list this year, like the rest of our lives, was colored by the triple whammy of 2020: the pandemic, the racial justice protests and the presidential election. But given the unpredictability of these 12 jam-packed, crisis-filled months,…
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Kristin Kobes Du MezDecember 23, 2020
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Jesus and John Wayne Selected 2020 Book of the Year by Englewood Review of Books

Excerpt: In an absolutely devastating closing chapter (titled “Evangelical Mulligans”) Du Mez traces many accounts of the all-too-frequent public failings of prominent evangelical leaders, and the knee-jerk efforts of those in similar positions of power to defend them while invalidating…
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Kristin Kobes Du MezDecember 9, 2020
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Review: Covenant Companion, the Official Magazine of the Evangelical Covenant Church, “Reexamining Evangelical Culture,” by Kurt Peterson

Excerpts: Many who read this book, and this review, for that matter, will find Du Mez’s thesis harsh and culturally charged. It is. Whether or not readers agree with all of her arguments, Jesus and John Wayne offers discerning evangelicals the opportunity…
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Kristin Kobes Du MezOctober 28, 2020
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Review: Christianity Today, “The Alpha-Male Style in American Evangelicalism,” by Daniel Harrell

Excerpts: In her recent book, Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation, Calvin University historian Kristin Kobes Du Mez situates Gothard and Piper in a long line of white, alpha-male leaders whose devotion to…
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Kristin Kobes Du MezOctober 27, 2020
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Review: Englewood Review of Books, “Kristin Kobes Du Mez – Jesus and John Wayne – Feature Review,” by Joel Wentz

Excerpts: Stunning new narrative. . . Joel Wentz, The Englewood Review of Books, Feature Review . . . Kristin Kobes Du Mez’s stunning new narrative history of the last century of white American evangelicalism. Du Mez’s writing is lively and…
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Kristin Kobes Du MezSeptember 24, 2020
In the MediaReviews: Jesus and John Wayne

Book Review: Salon.com, “How the Evangelical Movement Became Donald Trump’s ‘Bitch’ – and Yes, I Know what that Word Signifies,” by Michael Rea

Excerpts: As an evangelical myself, I can see how far the movement has sunk — even to betraying its own ideal of masculinity In her recent book, "Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a…
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Kristin Kobes Du MezSeptember 9, 2020
In the MediaReviews: Jesus and John Wayne

Review: The Christian Century, “Kristin Kobes DuMez’s History of the Manly Godly Man,” by Philip Christman

Excerpts:  Jesus and John Wayne  something more than a book of cultural history. Du Mez is facing a problem that besets many ex-evangelicals and former fundamentalists these days: How did the people who taught us to love Jesus end up…
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Kristin Kobes Du MezAugust 4, 2020
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Review: The Baffler, “Onward Christian Cowboys,” by Matt Hanson

Excerpts: Du Mez argues, using an extensive amount of research, that white evangelical culture often glorifies the aggressive, patriarchal idea of manhood, which has become intertwined with what it means to be a conservative Christian in the modern age. Sooner…
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Kristin Kobes Du MezJuly 29, 2020
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Review: Baptist News Global, “Jesus and John Wayne Exposes Militant Masculinity in the Age of Trump,” by Alan Bean

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…
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Kristin Kobes Du MezJuly 26, 2020
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Review: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, “Jesus, John Wayne and Justification by Faith in the American Way,” by Tom Cox

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 Mez
Kristin Kobes Du MezJuly 26, 2020
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  • About
  • Books
    • Jesus and John Wayne
    • A New Gospel for Women
  • Topics
    • Religion & Politics
      • American Evangelicalism
      • Hillary Clinton
      • Donald Trump
    • Christianity & Feminism
      • Christian Feminists
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      • Sexual Abuse & #MeToo
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      • Christian Thought
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    • Daily Living
      • Christian Women
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      • Work & Family
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