RT Article
T1 Violence, Politics and Religion: A Case Study of the Black Panther Party
JF Religions
VO 16
IS 1
A1 García Magariño, Sergio
A2 Yates, Aaron
LA English
YR 2025
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1913480798
AB The majority of US Black social movement organizations during the second half of the twentieth century had explicit ties to either Christian or Islamic religious institutions. The Black Panther Party (BPP) was a notable outlier in its secularism. Through the lens of radicalization, this paper examines the place of violence in the Party’s ideological platform and political practice relative to the Party’s secularism and experience of state repression. Drawing on newly available archival materials, we examine how Party members conceptualized their own programs, made sense of, and responded to the repressive intervention of state actors and institutions in their attempts to create social change.
K1 state-led anti-Black violence
K1 social movement organizations
K1 Radicalization
K1 (ir)religion
DO 10.3390/rel16010038