| #1734813 in Books | Princeton University Press | 2011-09-26 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.02 x.72 x5.98l,.95 | File type: PDF | 320 pages | ||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| This book is a good read, but the material is pretty dense|By Craig Lashley|Prison Religion: Faith Based Reform and the Constitution by Winnifred Fallers Sullivan is an analysis of a 2005 court case in Des Moines, Iowa involving the InnerChange Freedom Initiative (IFI). The book looks at the challenges of the separation of church and state, and faith-based programs inside gover||"An ambitious and successfully argued book . . . satisfying demands of empirical rigor while respecting the need to explore larger theoretical questions about the nature of society and religion."--Mark Lewis Taylor, Religious Studies
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 ...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Prison Religion: Faith-Based Reform and the Constitution | Winnifred Fallers Sullivan. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
