Reviews tagging 'Sexual violence'

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

20 reviews

rachel_purple's review against another edition

challenging informative tense medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Sexual harassment

Almost all of the descriptions of abuse are in the last chapter.

thewoodlandbookshelf's review against another edition

challenging informative medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Sexual violence, Islamophobia, Religious bigotry, Sexual harassment, and War

sarahhaver's review against another edition

informative fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child abuse, Misogyny, and Sexual violence

Book discusses topics such as abuse and sexual assult. Descriptions are not graphic.

meredith_williams_'s review against another edition

informative medium-paced

5.0

It took me a long time to be in a space to read this book.  Based on the title and the reviews, I assumed this book would focus solely on the current Christian nationalist culture of the United States and Trump era politics. And while it certainly does give plenty of merited critique where those two things are concerned, it also gives the reader the necessary historical context to explain how the country has arrived at this point, and aims to prove that the 2016 election was the direct result of nearly a century’s long effort to weaponize religion for political gain.

On a personal level, this book was very validating in my decision to leave the evangelical church that I was raised in. It helped me to understand a lot of the political context that influenced my community, church, and family in the 90s and early 2000s, and it also made me think about my parents’ and grandparents’ generation and their experiences with religion in a new way. 

Overall, this book taught me that the amalgamation of patriarchy, militarism, racism, and nationalism within the American church has directly resulted in the mass production of a religion that will continue to plague our country through a “submission theology” that  “protects the privileges of the powerful” so long as we allow it to be repackaged and sold to the next generations.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Sexism, Sexual violence, Religious bigotry, and War

katelyn11's review against another edition

challenging dark informative slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Religious bigotry, and Sexual harassment

pearlisarobot's review

challenging dark informative tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Infidelity, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Xenophobia, Islamophobia, Religious bigotry, Cultural appropriation, Colonisation, and Classism

Minor: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual violence, Violence, Antisemitism, Trafficking, Gaslighting, Colonisation, and War

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

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

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

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

jbrando28's review against another edition

informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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