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Author Stoddard, Brad, author.

Title Spiritual entrepreneurs : Florida's faith-based prisons and the American carceral state / Brad Stoddard.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource.
text file
Series Where religion lives
Where religion lives.
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject Church work with prisoners -- Florida.
Church work with prisoners.
Florida.
Prisoners -- Religious life -- Florida.
Prisoners -- Religious life.
Criminals -- Rehabilitation -- Florida.
Criminals -- Rehabilitation.
Faith-based human services -- Florida.
Faith-based human services.
Evangelicalism -- Florida.
Evangelicalism.
RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: 9781469663074 1469663074 9781469663081 1469663082 (DLC) 2020038285 (OCoLC)1193559929
ISBN 9781469663104 (electronic book)
1469663104 (electronic book)
9781469663074
1469663074
9781469663081
1469663082