Break Every Yoke: Religion, Justice, and the Abolition of Prisons

by Joshua Dubler and Vincent Lloyd

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190949155
• ISBN13: 9780190949150
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"