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Kristin Kobes Du Mez, "Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation" (Liveright, 2020).

Confronting History: A George L. Mosse Program in History Webinar

5 February 2021

Kristin Kobes Du Mez is Professor of History and Gender Studies at Calvin University. She holds a PhD from the University of Notre Dame and her research focuses on the intersection of gender, religion, and politics. She has written for the Washington Post, NBC News, Religion News Service, Christianity Today, and Christian Century, and has been interviewed on NPR, CTV, the BBC, and by CNN, the New York Times, the Economist, and the AP, among other outlets. Her most recent book is Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation (2020).

James C. Ungureanu is Historian in Residence in the George L. Mosse Program in History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is an intellectual historian with a particular interest in the history of religious thought. He is also the author of Science, Religion, and the Protestant Tradition: Retracing the Origins of Conflict (2019).

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Kristin Kobes du Mez Recommended for Further Reading:

Tim Gloege, Guaranteed Pure: The Moody Bible Institute, Business, and the Making of Modern Evangelicalism (2017).

Matt Sutton, American Apocalypse: A History of Modern Evangelicalism (2017).

Andrew Whitehead and Sam Perry, Taking America Back for God: Christian Nationalism in the United States (2020).

Lauren Kerby, Saving History: How White Evangelicals Tour the Nation's Capital and Redeem a Christian America (2020).

Katherine Stewart, Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism (2020).

Anne Nelson, Shadow Network: Media, Money, and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right (2019).

Sarah Posner, Unholy: White Evangelicals Worship at the Altar of Donald Trump (2020).