This topic she explores is centered in the continental United States ranging in the decades from the mid-1940s through 2020, assessing the importance of prominent figures and archetypes such as John Wayne, evangelical leaders like James Dobson and Billy Graham, and Republican presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. The book assesses how white evangelical Protestants forged their own political alchemy of Christian nationalism in the United States based on chauvinism, masculinity, and religious fundamentalism. Her new book under review, Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation (Liveright, 2020), likewise combines the frameworks of religious, political, cultural, and gender history. These topics inform her writing, including her first book The New Gospel for Women: Katherine Bushnell and the Challenge of Christian Feminism (Oxford, 2015).
Kristin Kobes Du Mez is a professor of History at Calvin University, specializing in gender, religious, and political history while also teaching social and cultural history.
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