Quick Read<\/p>\n
Kristin Kobes Du Mez wrote her last book about the politics of evangelical hypermasculinity. This book focuses on Christian women and how their culture shapes economic and political values. <\/p>\n
When Kristin Kobes Du Mez\u2019 book \u201cJesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation<\/a>\u201d was published in 2020, it quickly became a cultural phenomenon for the way it connected evangelical hypermasculinity with support for President Donald Trump. <\/p>\n Now, Du Mez is back with a follow-up \u2014 but this time, she\u2019s focused on Christian women. <\/p>\n \u201cI wanted to look at the popular religious culture that shapes Christian women’s lives: Christian radio, Christian publishing, romance novels, mommy blogs, influencers, multi-level marketing companies, Mary Kay, Lularoe, all of these fun things. Hobby Lobby, right? Joanna Gaines. So I thought it was going to be a fun book,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n \u201cIn the end, it was not. In the end, what I ended up uncovering was just how economic and cultural and political values are embedded inside these seemingly fluffy products that actually also help us understand how we got to our political moment today.”<\/p>\n