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Evangelical Fight Club Ministries and the Omission of Homophobia in Christian Articulations of Hypermasculinity (96776)
Session Chair: Bianca Yin-ki Cheung
Friday, 7 November 2025 09:25
Session: Session 1
Room: Room C (4F)
Presentation Type:Oral Presentation
This paper (re)examines the rhetoric of Evangelical pastors that reference David Fincher’s film Fight Club (1999) with a focus on their views of sexuality and proximity to White Christian Nationalism. Previous research on these figures does not probe at the ministers anti-gay rights religio-politics (Hays, Parker, Werse 2015; Hays and Werse 2017) that reflect the film’s heteronormative conclusion (Westerfelhaus and Brookey 2004). I argue that this research might be better understood as reflective of internal Christian turn of the century discussions on the meaning of complementarianism: on the one hand, symbolic “soft patriarchy” and on the other the extreme hypermasculine theologies of present day White Christian Nationalists.
Authors:
Jason Bartashius, Independent Scholar, Japan
About the Presenter(s)
Dr. Bartashius is an independent researcher.
Additional website of interest
https://jasonbartashius.com/
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