The same militant masculinity texts pervaded Washington power organizing.

Evidence

In his investigation of the Family, the secretive group (also known as the Fellowship) that had organized the National Prayer Breakfast since the 1950s, journalist Jeff Sharlet found evidence of John Eldredge’s Wild at Heart warrior code, of knights-in-shining-armor purity culture, and of the Christian Reconstructionist-infused patriarchy of Doug Phillips’s Vision Forum. These sources fed a hypermasculine and authoritarian ethos within the organization, one that meshed well with their attempts to consolidate power nationally and globally. — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 435

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the thesis of The Reluctant Fundamentalist — men remaking themselves through a warrior code — and extends the book’s apparatus argument: the same consumer culture commodities circulated in political elites.