Nostalgia Trap - Episode 205: Onward Christian Soldiers w/ Kristin Kobes Du Mez
Nostalgia Trap · David Parsons
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Show Notes
Kristin Kobes Du Mez is a professor of history at Calvin University whose work focuses on the intersection of religion, gender, and politics in American life. Her new book Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation traces the development of a white, militant, patriarchal Christian culture in the decades since the 1960s, when the rise of feminism and the civil rights movement triggered an evangelical backlash that led directly to the Trump era. In this conversation, she explains how a "tough guy" ideal gained traction in Christian culture, as white evangelicals came to embrace a brutal ideology of authority, domination, and violence.