PubMed Central
Practicing What They Preach? Lynching and Religion in the American South, 1890 – 1929 - PMC
This inquiry seeks to identify ... lynching and the local religious landscape. In light of the power of other social institutions to shape the contours of racial violence, a comprehensive investigation into religion’s influence on lynching seems overdue, particularly given the impact that Christian organizations ...
Slate
Jim Crow South’s lynching of blacks and Christianity: The terror inflicted by whites was considered a religious ritual.
February 10, 2015 - The cliché is that Americans have a short memory, but since Saturday, a number of us have been arguing over medieval religious wars and whether they...
Transformingcenter
The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James Cone
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Three-Fifths
Why White Christians Must Learn About Lynching – Three-Fifths
May 10, 2022 - Jamelle Bouie said, “The lynching ... and Jim Crow were often justified in the name of Christ, so was the evil of lynching. The Christian faith was polluted by the toxin of white supremacy....
Trinity Church
The Cross and the Lynching Tree | Trinity Church
April 2, 2021 - In this article, which will appear ... – by way of the noose and the lynching tree. One has to have a powerful religious imagination to see redemption in the cross, to discover life in death and hope in tragedy. “Christianity,” Reinhold Niebuhr wrote, “is a faith ...
Fsu
The Southern Rite of Human Sacrifice Part III
White Southerners did not think ... by literary figures and historians, but he did believe that the religion of white Southerners had created the "particular fanaticism" that led to lynching. He recounted a list of atrocities inflicted by Christians against people unlike ...
L. Russ Bush Center for Faith and Culture
"The Lingering Effects of Lynching": A Reflection - Christ and Culture
September 22, 2021 - Recently Southeastern’s Library hosted a talk entitled” The Lingering Effects of Lynching on your Ministry: An Untold Story.” The heart behind this discussion is twofold. First, we believe that sin has effects on our eternal destination and on our present everyday lives.
Taylor & Francis Online
Race lynching and Christian Evangelicalism: performances of faith: Text and Performance Quarterly: Vol 24, No 3-4
This essay locates the performance of ritual lynching within the white Christian Evangelical worldview that predominated among members of the white supremacist community responsible for lynching A...
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Factsheet
Factsheet
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Named after Charles Lynch
Wikipedia
Lynching - Wikipedia
3 weeks ago - Lynching is an extrajudicial killing by a group. It is most often used to characterize informal public executions by a mob in order to punish an alleged or convicted transgressor or to intimidate others. It can also be an extreme form of informal group social control, and it is often conducted ...
MDPI
“The Real Victim of Lynch Law Is the Government”: American Protestant Anti-Lynching Advocacy and the Making of Law and Order
February 17, 2019 - This article connects these latter concerns to the national war on crime of the 1930s and 40s and the early history of the modern carceral state. Keywords: American religious history; lynching; American Protestantism; African American Christianity; religion and race; incarceration; criminal justice
Reformation 21
Race and the American Church 6: Lynching, Violence & White Supremacy - Reformation 21
Fifteen years ago, he wrote a piece called "The Southern Rite of Human Sacrifice", which was both brilliant and brave. It connected the religion of the South (Christianity), something meant to be transcendent, with something incredibly violent: human sacrifice through lynching.
Patheos
What We Can Learn From Pastors Who Were Silent About Lynching | Daniel Williams
September 22, 2021 - BuddhistCatholicContemplativeE... Christian ... September 23, 2021 by Daniel K. Williams · What We Can Learn from Pastors Who Were Silent about Lynching September 23, 2021 Daniel K. Williams · Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and ...
Tikkun
Legacies of the Cross and the Lynching Tree | Tikkun
August 26, 2013 - This message of liberation was ... to find liberation and meaning. Inevitably, it has led to these reflections on the cross and the lynching tree: the essential symbol of Christianity, and the quintessential emblem of black suffering....
Church Life Journal
Martin Luther King Jr.: Bearing the Cross and Staring Down the Lynching Tree | Church Life Journal | University of Notre Dame
Like Reinhold Niebuhr, whom he studied in graduate school, King believed that the cross was the defining heart of the Christian faith. Unlike Niebuhr, his understanding of the cross was inflected by his awareness of the lynching tree, and this was a significant difference.
Jsreligion
The Journal of Southern Religion · African Americans Speak to Spectacle Lynchings
Donald Mathews’s “The Southern Rite of Human Sacrifice” both describes southern lynching as a lived interpretation of Christianity and claims a role for the religious study of lynching. Relying largely on historiography, Mathews contends that white southerners created this religion and ...
Word In Black
A Lynching Countenanced by the White Press and Church - Word In Black
March 1, 2022 - Although she states that many whites ... an article defending his words and saying his sermon was not responsible for White’s lynching. Elwood was eventually called before the New Castle Presbytery for preaching “contrary to the Christian faith,” but faced no repercu...
Christianity Today
Facing Our Legacy of Lynching - Christianity Today
August 28, 2022 - How a memorial could help lead America—and Christians—to repentance from a dark history. Lynching in Paris, Texas.
Orbis Books
The Cross and the Lynching Tree - Orbis Books
The Cross and the Lynching Tree
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"Based on impressive research, Cone argues that the lynching tree is a viable reality/symbol for reflection on the cross of Christ. According to Cone, understandings of the cross and lynching tree can mutually inform one another and explain how events of trauma and injustice can still inspire hope for the African American community.” --Christianity Today
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The Conversation
Lynching preachers: How black pastors resisted Jim Crow and white pastors incited racial violence
February 4, 2025 - Their violence was widespread but ... Seguin and David Rigby. The remaining dead were white, Mexican, of Mexican descent, Native American, Chinese or Japanese. Such numbers, based on verifiable newspaper reports, represent a minimum. The full human toll of racial lynching may remain ever beyond reach. Religion was no barrier for these white murderers, as I’ve discovered in my research on Christianity and lynch ...