Drawing upon complementary interpretations of the “antistatist statist” nature of modern evangelicalism and the carceral state, this article offers a short history of modern evangelical understandings of law enforcement and an exploration of contemporary evangelical ministry to police officers. This article explores evangelical interest and influence in modern American policing. Though several powerful explorations of modern evangelical influence in American politics and culture have appeared in recent years (many of which illumine the seeming complications of evangelical influence in the Trump era), there is more work that needs to be done on the matter of evangelical understandings of and influence in American law enforcement.
A link to a wide array of her talks on this overall topic/her book may be found here. Following is a webinar on this book with Kristin Kobes Du Mez done by Calvin University where she has taught since 2004.
The Access Hollywood tape came out, white evangelical elites continued to defend Trump, his support among white evangelical voters remained strong, and I thought, "Ugh, I think I know what's going to happen and I think I know why." That's when I pulled some of that old research and wrote "Donald Trump and Militant Evangelical Masculinity." And then the book was published in 2020.
However, just before the election, things clicked for me. As a Christian myself, I wanted to be careful about shining a bright light on this dark underbelly of American Christianity if it was merely a fringe phenomenon. For another, I wasn't sure at first how mainstream it all was. I wasn't sure that I wanted to live with that for the years that I knew it would take to write a book. For one, the things that I was uncovering were very depressing. In an interview with Religion & Politics, the author discusses how she came to its writing: Yes! Since about 2010, I had been giving talks on evangelicalism and masculinity and had been approached by publishers, but there were two things at that point that made me a little hesitant to dive into a book project. This is a highly disturbing-and informative-book.
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