Who Lynches on the Frontier?: Select Jesuit References and the Wild West Paradigm
Contemporary historians of Western lynching point out that the influential frontier justice interpretation has many weaknesses, especially its inattention to the role of race and ethnicity. Selected Jesuit incidental references both reflect the influence of this paradigm and support its contemporary...
Published in: | The journal of religion & society |
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Creighton University
2022
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The journal of religion & society
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Further subjects: | B
Vigilantism
B Lynching B Frontier B Jesuits B Las Vegas College |
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Summary: | Contemporary historians of Western lynching point out that the influential frontier justice interpretation has many weaknesses, especially its inattention to the role of race and ethnicity. Selected Jesuit incidental references both reflect the influence of this paradigm and support its contemporary critique by identifying frontier lynching as an Anglo-American practice. |
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ISSN: | 1522-5658 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of religion & society
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Persistent identifiers: | HDL: 10504/136030 |