TY - BOOK ID - 85466358 TI - At the altar of lynching : burning Sam Hose in the American South PY - 2018 SN - 1316873625 1316863514 1316872157 1107182972 1316633985 PB - New York : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Lynching KW - African Americans KW - Afro-Americans KW - Black Americans KW - Colored people (United States) KW - Negroes KW - Africans KW - Ethnology KW - Blacks KW - Homicide KW - History. KW - Violence against KW - Hose, Sam, KW - Wilkes, Tom, KW - Wilkes, Samuel Thomas, KW - Wilkes, Thomas, KW - Coweta County (Ga.) KW - Southern States KW - Coweta Co., Ga. KW - Race relations KW - Religious life and customs. KW - Evangelicalism KW - Altars KW - Racism KW - Bias, Racial KW - Race bias KW - Race prejudice KW - Racial bias KW - Prejudices KW - Anti-racism KW - Critical race theory KW - Church decoration and ornament KW - Church furniture KW - Evangelical religion KW - Protestantism, Evangelical KW - Evangelical Revival KW - Fundamentalism KW - Pietism KW - Protestantism KW - Georgia KW - Religious aspects KW - Social aspects KW - Black people KW - Anti-lynching movements UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85466358 AB - The story of a black day-laborer called Sam Hose killing his white employer in a workplace dispute ended in a lynching of enormous religious significance. For many deeply-religious communities in the Jim Crow South, killing those like Sam Hose restored balance to a moral cosmos upended by a heinous crime. A religious intensity in the mood and morality of segregation surpassed law, and in times of social crisis could justify illegal white violence - even to the extreme act of lynching. In At the Altar of Lynching, distinguished historian Donald G. Mathews offers a new interpretation of the murder of Sam Hose, which places the religious culture of the evangelical South at its center. He carefully considers how mainline Protestants, including women, not only in many instances came to support or accept lynching, but gave the act religious meaning and justification. ER -