Reviews tagging 'Domestic abuse'

Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin Kobes Du Mez

19 reviews

fkshg8465's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

5.0

This book is full of triggers, so be forewarned before you read it. It filled me with shame for having voted for Reagan the first time I got to vote (I was only mimicking my parents’ votes, but still…). It also makes me wonder why the Islamic culture is the enemy when there are so many parallels in the White evangelical culture that run this country. The book also makes clear to me that everything wrong with the US is perpetuated by this same group.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, Religious bigotry, Sexual harassment, Slavery, Xenophobia, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Antisemitism, Biphobia, Bullying, Child abuse, Misogyny, Rape, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Lesbophobia, Sexual assault, War, Homophobia, Incest, Islamophobia, Pedophilia, Sexism, and Infidelity

mirabrothers's review against another edition

challenging informative tense slow-paced

5.0

Every person who has ever voted in America should read this book. Challenging read but written very well

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Content Warnings

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Classism, Domestic abuse, Pedophilia, Child abuse, and Sexual assault

madscientistcat's review against another edition

challenging dark informative medium-paced

4.75

Incredibly informative and impeccably researched. If you want to understand what evangelicals really are and how the community got to where they are now and why they’ve had their outsized impact on the US government, this is it. You will leave this book understanding that and also probably depressed and anxious. The definition of “thanks, I hate it.”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Gun violence, Racism, Xenophobia, Bullying, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Misogyny, and Islamophobia

Moderate: Child abuse, Sexual violence, Gaslighting, Sexual assault, Pedophilia, Domestic abuse, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Rape, Slavery, War, Infidelity, Incest, Hate crime, and Deportation

elnelson's review against another edition

challenging informative slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry, Islamophobia, and Sexism

Moderate: Xenophobia, Transphobia, Infidelity, Rape, Homophobia, Gun violence, Gaslighting, Fatphobia, Sexual assault, Outing, Sexual harassment, War, Physical abuse, Incest, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, and Deportation

thisisadri's review against another edition

dark informative medium-paced

5.0

A must read for anyone who’s remotely interested in how America came to be 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Transphobia, War, Sexual harassment, Gun violence, Homophobia, Sexual violence, Xenophobia, Islamophobia, Toxic relationship, Violence, Religious bigotry, Pedophilia, Misogyny, Lesbophobia, Hate crime, Fatphobia, and Domestic abuse

jbrando28's review against another edition

informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Religious bigotry, Rape, War, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Racism, Misogyny, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Xenophobia, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Incest, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual assault, Sexism, Islamophobia, Homophobia, and Hate crime

mswarning's review

informative slow-paced

4.25

It's hard to say that I "really like" this book or think it's "amazing." I can't describe how many times it made me angry, like when pastors or other authority figures were given passes when they accused of sexual or child abuse. People just chalked it up to their god-given "masculinity." This book is not snarky or humorous despite the impression the title might give. It's a cultural foray into white evangelicalism in the US.

I did not like the narrator. She sounded robotic, bored, and dispassionate. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism and Misogyny

Moderate: Child abuse, Xenophobia, Homophobia, Domestic abuse, and Racism

easypeasy17's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

This is a very important look into the history of white evangelical America and how it has led us to where we are today with American politics. Highly recommend this book. I just wish this book would have dived deeper into how these shifting perspectives within the evangelical church affected marginalized groups. Or if we had gotten more perspectives from people who had left evangelicalism and why they left. What are their critiques?

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Content Warnings

Minor: Physical abuse, Child abuse, and Domestic abuse

knunderb's review against another edition

challenging informative sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia and Racism

Moderate: Domestic abuse, War, Pedophilia, Child abuse, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, and Religious bigotry

caseythereader's review

challenging dark informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Transphobia, Xenophobia, Racism, Religious bigotry, Infidelity, Islamophobia, Homophobia, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, and Sexual violence