RT Book
T1 Spiritual entrepreneurs: Florida's faith-based prisons and the American carceral state
T2 Where religion lives
A1 Stoddard, Brad
LA English
PP Chapel Hill
PB The University of North Carolina Press
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1736799363
AB "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"--
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN BV4465
SN 978-1-4696-6308-1
SN 978-1-4696-6307-4
K1 Church work with prisoners : Florida
K1 Prisoners : Religious life : Florida
K1 Criminals : Rehabilitation : Florida
K1 Faith-based human services : Florida
K1 Evangelicalism : Florida
K1 Florida : Justizvollzugsanstalt : Religion : Protestantismus : Die Rechte : Gefängnisseelsorge