I struggled to place my finger on Du Mez's actual purpose, which impacted how I engaged with her work. Hills offer similar praise, saying, ' Jesus and John Wayne is an excellent resource to help make sense of the racial, cultural, and religious ideological fronts that currently shape evangelical Christianity and political alignments.' In a book review published in the academic journal Church History, Jon Butler wrote, 'But whether screed or academic tome, Du Mez's portrait of American evangelicalism makes Jesus and John Wayne not only one of the most important books on religion and the 2016 elections but one of the most important books on post-1945 American evangelicalism published in the past four decades.'Īlthough I had not read Butler's review until I completed the book, I now realize that he identifies the key struggle I felt as I read it, even as he praises it. The Englewood Review of Books named Du Mez's work its 2020 Book of the Year, writing, ' Jesus and John Wayne is an absolute must-read, a stunning work, and one that deserves serious attention and further conversation.' Karen Swallow Prior was quoted in the Washington Post as saying, 'Among my own group of friends and peers, this is the book that they have been talking about more than any other in recent years … I can't think of the last one that people talked about this much.' On Reading Religion, Darrius D. Kristen Kobes Du Mez, a professor of history at Calvin College, is proving to be one of the most talked-about pieces of Christian commentary in recent history.

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