Document Type
Article
Journal Title
Journal of Southern Religion
Publication Date
2015
Abstract
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 ignored obvious parallels between lynched black men and the death of Jesus on the cross. But missing from this and other interpretations is a key voice: that of contemporary black evangelical pastors.
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Recommended Citation
Mathews, Mary Beth. “African Americans Speak to Spectacle Lynchings.” Journal of Southern Religion 17 (2015). http://jsreligion.org/issues/vol17/Mathews.html.
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