Prison Religion

Faith-Based Reform and the Constitution

Author: Winnifred Fallers Sullivan
ISBN: 9780691133591

More than the citizens of most countries, Americans are either religious or in jail--or both. But what does it mean when imprisonment and evangelization actually go hand in hand, or at least appear to? What do "faith-based" prison programs mean for the constitutional separation of church and state, particularly when prisoners who participate get special privileges? In Prison Religion, law and religion scholar Winnifred Fallers Sullivan takes up these and other important questions through a close examination of a recent trial challenging the constitutionality of a faith-based residential rehabilitation program in an Iowa state prison, a trial in which she served as an expert witness for the prisoner-plaintiffs. Using the trial to illuminate the interrelationship of American law and religion today, Prison Religion argues that the plaintiffs' case unintentionally shows that separation of church and state is no longer possible because religious authority has radically shifted from institut

Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publish Date: 2009-02-17

Subjects: Law / Constitutional, Law / Criminal Law / General, Political Science / History & Theory, Political Science / Public Policy / General, Religion / General, Religion / Religion, Politics & State, Social Science / Penology

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