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Spiritual Entrepreneurs - Florida's Faith-Based Prisons and the American Carceral State (Paperback)
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Spiritual Entrepreneurs - Florida's Faith-Based Prisons and the American Carceral State (Paperback)
Series: Where Religion Lives
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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. Even without
authoritative data on whether FCBIs are assisting rehabilitation
and reducing recidivism rates, similar programs are appearing
across the nation-only Iowa has declared them illegal under
non-establishment-of-religion statutes. Exposing the intricate
connections among incarceration, neoliberal economics, and
religious freedom, Stoddard makes a timely contribution to debates
about religion's role in American society.
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