Violence, Politics and Religion: A Case Study of the Black Panther Party
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 examin...
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-daf6e4b1499d450d94b04b5d21d5340d2025-01-24T13:47:23ZengMDPI AGReligions2077-14442025-01-011613810.3390/rel16010038Violence, Politics and Religion: A Case Study of the Black Panther PartySergio García-Magariño0Aaron Yates1Department of Sociology and Social Work, Public University of Navarre, 31006 Pamplona, SpainDepartment of Sociology, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003, USAThe 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.https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/16/1/38(ir)religionradicalizationsocial movement organizationsstate-led anti-Black violence |
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