Reviews tagging 'Physical abuse'

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

14 reviews

ariesrae's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative reflective tense medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry, War, and Islamophobia

Moderate: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Pedophilia, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, and Homophobia

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

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

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

burdasnest's review

challenging informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.75

 At times nauseating, I ultimately think this is a must-read for understanding the United States today. This treatise establishes facts and presents a comprehensive explanation of how masculinity has been especially twisted over the past century to the point of electing Donald Trump. It's tough to swallow, but it feels like a large chunk of the population are living in a completely different established reality, even in my own backyard. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Slavery, Sexism, War, Xenophobia, Transphobia, Sexual harassment, Abortion, Sexual violence, and Physical abuse

Minor: Pedophilia, Adult/minor relationship, Antisemitism, Fatphobia, Ableism, Genocide, Gaslighting, and Sexual content

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

caikey11's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

It’s hard to formulate thoughts on this one right now. An important read. 

Sharing a massive trigger warning for the last chapter, which examines the church’s failure to prevent, respond to, and protect sexual victimization of children and women in the church. Even working extensively (8+ years, heavily focused on trauma and primarily on childhood sexual abuse) with this subject, this chapter was triggering and overwhelming to me. And one point I had to just put it away for a while. Take good care, especially if you have sexual trauma with or without religious trauma.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Homophobia

Moderate: Racism, Islamophobia, and Physical abuse

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

tamara_joy's review against another edition

informative sad tense

4.0

This explains so much. Sometimes hard to read, especially with the most recent stuff, but so well laid out.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Sexism, Misogyny, Religious bigotry, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Homophobia, Islamophobia, Emotional abuse, and Gaslighting

Minor: Colonisation, War, Classism, Incest, Rape, Sexual harassment, Slavery, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, and Pedophilia

c100's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Misogyny, and Sexual assault