García Magariño, SergioYates, Aaron2025-02-052025-02-052025-01-02García-Magariño, S., Yates, A. (2025). Violence, politics and religion: a case study of the Black Panther Party. Religions, 16(1), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel16010038.2077-144410.3390/rel16010038https://academica-e.unavarra.es/handle/2454/53283The 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.application/pdfeng© 2025 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license.(Ir)religionRadicalizationSocial movement organizationsState-led anti-Black violenceViolence, politics and religion: a case study of the Black Panther Partyinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article2025-02-05info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess