The in-person event will be held at The University of Chicago's Swift Hall Lecture Room, 3rd floor.Ībout the book: "Jesus and John Wayne" is a sweeping, revisionist history of the last seventy-five years of white evangelicalism, revealing how evangelicals have worked to replace the Jesus of the Gospels with an idol of rugged masculinity and Christian nationalism-or in the words of one modern chaplain, with "a spiritual badass."Īs acclaimed scholar Kristin Du Mez explains, the key to understanding this transformation is to recognize the centrality of popular culture in contemporary American evangelicalism. Presented in partnership with The Martin Marty Center, The Undergraduate Program in Religious Studies, and The Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality Kristin Du Mez discusses "Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation." She will be in joined in conversation by Brie Loskota.
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