Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
- ISBN-10
- 1631495739
- ISBN-13
- 9781631495731
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 336
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020-05-19
- Author
- Kristin Kobes Du Mez
Description
A scholar of American Christianity presents a seventy-five-year history of evangelicalism that identifies the forces that have turned Donald Trump into a hero of the Religious Right.
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- 2020-06-23
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