The Faithful Citizen analyzes how popular Christian media constructs and promotes different models of gendered civic participation. Through close analysis of films, novels, and TV shows, Kristy Maddux identifies five images of engagement: genteel masculinity, feminine submission, brutish masculinity, feminine charity, and civic nonparticipation. Each text constructs citizenship differently and associates particular gender roles with certain types of participation or nonparticipation. While providing a rich intertextual study, the book could have examined how race is constructed in these texts and better demonstrated the real political impact of these gendered models on audiences. Overall, it offers an insightful interdisciplinary look at representations of religion, gender, and civic life in popular Christian media.