Spiritual entrepreneurs: Florida's faith-based prisons and the American carceral state

"The overall rate of incarceration in the United States has been on the rise since 1970s, skyrocketing during Ronald Reagan's presidency, and recently reaching unprecedented highs. Looking for innovative solutions to the crises produced by gigantic prison populations, Florida's Depart...

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1. VerfasserIn: Stoddard, Brad (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Druck Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Chapel Hill The University of North Carolina Press [2021]
In:Jahr: 2021
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Church work with prisoners > Florida
Prisoners > Religious life > Florida
Criminals > Rehabilitation > Florida
Faith-based human services > Florida
Evangelicalism > Florida
Florida > Justizvollzugsanstalt > Religion > Protestantismus > Die Rechte > Gefängnisseelsorge
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Zusammenfassung:"The overall rate of incarceration in the United States has been on the rise since 1970s, skyrocketing during Ronald Reagan's presidency, and recently reaching unprecedented highs. Looking for innovative solutions to the crises produced by gigantic prison populations, Florida's Department of Corrections claims to have found a partial remedy in the form of faith and character-based correctional institutions (FCBIs). While claiming to be open to all religious traditions, FCBIs are almost always run by Protestants situated within the politics of the Christian right. The religious programming is typically run by the incarcerated along with volunteers from outside the prison. Stoddard takes the reader deep inside FCBIs, analyzing the subtle meanings and difficult choices with which the incarcerated, prison administrators, staff, and chaplains grapple every day. Drawing on extensive ethnographic research and historical analysis, Brad Stoddard argues that FCBIs build on and demonstrate the compatibility of conservative Christian politics and neoliberal economics"--
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Physische Details:xiii, 254 Seiten
ISBN:978-1-4696-6308-1
978-1-4696-6307-4