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Break every yoke : religion, justice, and the abolition of prisons / Joshua Dubler and Vincent W. Lloyd.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dubler, Joshua, author.
- Lloyd, Vincent W., 1982- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prisons--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.
- Prisons.
- Criminology--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.
- Criminology.
- Social justice--United States.
- Social justice.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (256 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- 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 in 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.
- Contents:
- Why not prison abolition?
- The political theology of mass incarceration
- The limits of reformist religion
- Prison religion and prison justice
- The spirit of abolition
- Concluding meditations.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 17, 2020).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-094917-1
- 0-19-094918-X
- 0-19-094916-3
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