And they did this by way of popular culture- books, radio, and TV shows, she said.ĭuring the Cold War, “they were committed to defending America and defending Christianity.”īut then came the 1960s.
They wanted to reassert their belief and power in their Christian nation. That Victorian view changed at the beginning of the 20th century as a more muscular Christianity that included rugged individualism and militancy took hold.Īnd it wasn’t just conservative Christians who were “embedded in muscular Christianity but liberal Protestants” as well after World War I, DuMez said.įollowing World War II, things “started to fall into place.” And men were seen as gentlemen, capable of self restraint, who had a duty to protect women, children and their slaves, she said. In the 1800s, Evangelicals were part of a patriarchal society with distinct gender roles. She began with a history of Evangelicals and the country, noting the belief held by many Evangelicals that America was created as a Christian nation. “Things were not always the way they are now,” said Kristin Kobes DuMez, who has garnered critical and international acclaim with her book, “Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation.”ĭuMez, a professor of history and gender studies at Calvin University in Grand Rapids, was invited to speak at a Zoom meeting Monday, as part of the Reid Knox Forum, a series created by a group of Alma College faculty and community members to address important issues.
Christian Evangelicals have changed in the last few centuries.
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