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Break Every Yoke - Religion, Justice, and the Abolition of Prisons (Hardcover)
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Break Every Yoke - Religion, Justice, and the Abolition of Prisons (Hardcover)
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Changes in the American religious landscape enabled the rise of
mass incarceration. Religious ideas and practices also offer a key
for ending mass incarceration. These are the bold claims advanced
by Break Every Yoke, the joint work of two activist-scholars of
American religion. Once, in an era not too long past, Americans,
both incarcerated and free, spoke a language of social liberation
animated by religion. In the era of mass incarceration, we have
largely forgotten how to dream-and organize-this way. To end mass
incarceration we must reclaim this lost tradition. Properly
conceived, the movement we need must demand not prison reform but
prison abolition. Break Every Yoke weaves religion into the stories
about race, politics, and economics that conventionally account for
America's grotesque prison expansion of the last half century, and
in so doing it sheds new light on one of our era's biggest human
catastrophes. By foregrounding the role of religion in the way
political elites, religious institutions, and incarcerated
activists talk about incarceration, Break Every Yoke is an effort
to stretch the American moral imagination and contribute resources
toward envisioning alternative ways of doing justice. By looking
back to nineteenth century abolitionism, and by turning to today's
grassroots activists, it argues for reclaiming the abolition
"spirit."
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