%0 Journal Article %J Social Media + Society %D 2016 %T Who would Jesus bomb? The Republican Jesus meme and the fracturing of ideology %A Duerringer, C. A %K Ideology %K Jesus %K meme %X This project joins a growing conversation about the cultural significance of memes (and Internet memes in particular), offering a critical analysis of Republican Jesus—one popular image macro that mocks contemporary American conservatism—in order to illustrate the rhetorical potential of these putatively harmless do-it yourself (DIY) creations. Ultimately, I argue that Republican Jesus offers a critique of contemporary conservatism that creates “perspective by incongruity” and, thereby, creates a space for ideological struggle. %B Social Media + Society %V 2 %P 1-12 %8 Jan-March %G eng %U http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2056305116637095#articleCitationDownloadContainer %N 1