Evangelical masculinity serves as the foundation of a God-and-country Christian nationalism, but that hasn’t stopped American evangelicals from exporting aspects of this ideology globally, to places like Uganda, India, Jamaica, and Belize. Evangelicals in Brazil, drawing on their own culture of machismo and borrowing from the playbook of American evangelicals, helped install Jair Bolsonaro—a thrice-married strongman known for his misogynistic statements, his antigay agenda, and his defense of “traditional” family values—as the nation’s president. Over the past decade, groups like Focus on the
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