![]() "John Wayne" in the title alludes to the extreme emphasis on gender roles & exaggerated masculinity in the evang. (Not sure yet if she covers the heavy financial backing of Billy Graham & similar preachers by oligarchic business figures in California and especially the oil industry.) She stresses the fusion of show business and bible-crusading that took hold in the 1940's. The book's approach is increasingly valid as church attendance and familiarity with the tenets of the faith, theology & Biblical text are cratering, but the culture of consumption of "Christian" media products (radio, TV, books, music, the "gift" industry) is immersive. ![]() Only the evang's claim to define themselves according the their beliefs but in the US this is actually a cultural (& political) movement more than a theological one. phenomenon as a culture, or sub-culture, emerging in the late 20th C., not primarily as a theology. Author looks at the specifically *contemporary* evang.
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