Scholars have documented the masculinization of Protestantism since the Men and Religion Forward Movement

Evidence

Gail Bederman, “‘The Women Have Had Charge of the Church Work Long Enough’: The Men and Religion Forward Movement of 1911–1912 and the Masculinization of Middle-Class Protestantism,” American Quarterly 41, no. 3 (Sept. 1989): 432–65; Fred B. Smith, A Man’s Religion (New York: Association Press, 1913), 70; Joe Creech, “The Price of Eternal Honor: Independent White Christian Manhood in the Late Nineteenth-Century South,” in Craig Thompson Friend, Southern Masculinity: Perspectives on Manhood in the South since Reconstruction (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009), 25, 34–35. — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 718

Categorization

• XREF: Points to the scholarly apparatus (Bederman, Creech) undergirding the ‘muscular Christianity’ narrative the book relies on; useful for the reader’s method critique. — connects to: Diverse theological traditions converged on a single template of Christian masculinity — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 364; World War I disillusionment discredited militant Christian masculinity among mainstream Protestants — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 46; The evangelical masculinity movement fused secular men’s mythopoetic ideas with Christian psychology — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 365 (+4 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Diverse theological traditions converged on a single template of Christian masculinity — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 364; World War I disillusionment discredited militant Christian masculinity among mainstream Protestants — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 46; The evangelical masculinity movement fused secular men’s mythopoetic ideas with Christian psychology — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 365 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• World War I disillusionment discredited militant Christian masculinity among mainstream Protestants #complicates (0.78) — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 46
• Theological defenders gave patriarchy scriptural authority beyond popular masculinity trends #complicates (0.72) — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 381