Brighter Together: Look Back at the Church's Reaction to Feminism and the Reassertion of Patriarchy
Description
In this episode I'll talk about some of the roots of purity culture that came about in the 1960s and 70s. In the midst of the feminist movement, the sexual revolution, the Cold War and the Vietnam Conflict, evangelicals identified a crisis of the family. It's true, folks needed help navigating changing power dynamics in their relationships. The evangelical response was to double down on the way things were. If traditional gender roles worked before, they should work now.
In this episode I make several references to the following book:
Du Mez, Kristin Kobes. (June 2020) Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation.
I also gathered information on the Vietnam War from Wikipedia. You can find it here:
Vietnam War—The Aftermath. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War#Casualties
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