![]() ![]() I have rarely written “wow” in the margins so much and evangelicalism is in my wheelhouse (subject of said dissertation).ĭu Mez convincingly shows that White American Evangelicalism (WAE) has been animated by a passion to protect, defend and enhance white patriarchy. Kristin Kobes Du Mez’s book is wonderful, packed with fascinating content and eminently readable with nice, short chapters. As the weeks went on, evangelical twitter kept hyping this book by a Christian author with a foot in American evangelicalism (she calls herself “evangelical adjacent”) who was nonetheless critiquing the tradition.įolks, I can see why. I was finalizing my PhD dissertation so I studiously resisted buying the book. This fall, my twitter feed came alive with people raving about a new book about America’s White evangelicals, titled Jesus and John Wayne.
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