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Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation - Kobes Du Mez, Kristin
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In Jesus and John Wayne, a seventy-five-year history of American evangelicalism, Kristin Kobes Du Mez demolishes the myth that white evangelicals "held their noses" in voting for Donald Trump. Revealing the role of popular culture in evangelicalism, Du Mez shows how evangelicals have worked for decades to replace the Jesus of the Gospels with an idol of rugged masculinity and Christian nationalism in the mould of Ronald Reagan, Mel Gibson and above all, John Wayne. As Du Mez observes, the beliefs at the heart of white ...

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Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation 2021, Liveright Publishing Corporation

ISBN-13: 9781631499050

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Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation 2020, Liveright Publishing Corporation

ISBN-13: 9781631495731

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