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 ...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

August 28, 2022 - How a memorial could help lead America—and Christians—to repentance from a dark history. Lynching in Paris, Texas.

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

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....

The book’s first two chapters ... violence and religion. For example, Wood examines how lynching, as a spectacle, borrowed much from the practice of public executions that still occurred in the early 1900s. Lynching was also shaped by the traditions of evangelical Christianity...

2 days 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 ...

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March 1, 2022 - NAACP leader Walter White wrote in 1929 that “it is exceedingly doubtful if lynching could possibly exist under any other religion than Christianity. … Through tacit approval and acquiescence has the Christian Church indirectly given its approval to lynch law and other forms of race prejudice.”...

It connected the religion of the ... violent: human sacrifice through lynching. According to Mathews, not only were Christians in the South complicit in this practice, but the way they practiced their religion (in segregation and proclaiming that "whiteness" was good and ...

June 3, 2014 - George Zimmerman walked free. Michael Dunn was not convicted of lynching Jordan Davis … · Well, imagine how it hit me when, as I am reading Radical Reconciliation: Beyond Political Pietism and Christian Quietism I recognized what can only be said to be lynching.

September 11, 2023 - “The Christian white supremacy, ... and forced removal of indigenous people that came before that. If we look upstream, from what even good, well-meaning people have called the Negro Problem, or the Indian problem, we see what I call the white Christian problem.” · Robert Jones goes on to look at the connections between infamous cases of the lynching and murders ...

Citations are generated automatically from bibliographic data as a convenience, and may not be complete or accurate. Douglass, Frederick. "Lynching Black People Because They Are Black," Christian Educator. The Christian Educator, 1894. Manuscript/Mixed Material.

February 19, 2021 - Many Christians, of all racial and ethnic backgrounds, have condemned the Arbery’s killing. But widespread condemnation from the church for these types of killings was not always the case. For years, for white Christians, “the critique of lynching rarely moved beyond ‘Lynching is anarchy, ...

February 11, 2022 - White Americans used lynching to terrorize and control Black people in the 19th and early 20th centuries. NAACP led a courageous battle against lynching.

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 ...

In "A Theology of Brotherhood," Curtis Evans traces progressive Christians’ work against racism in the early twentieth century.