Militant masculinity fused family life, politics, and foreign policy into evangelical identity

Evidence

Weaving together intimate family matters, domestic politics, and a foreign policy agenda, militant masculinity came to reside at the heart of a larger evangelical identity. Over the years, Christians have been drawn into this cultural and political identity in many ways. Christian men attended men’s ministries to become better fathers and more faithful Christians. Christian parents sought help raising children. Christian women looked to books and seminars to learn how to be better wives. The resources they found introduced them to a larger world of evangelical “family values”—to traditional visions of masculinity and femininity, and to a social order structured along clear lines of patriarchal authority. — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 665

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Rural evangelical communities fused Christian and American identity as one — Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry, 53