Prison Religion: Faith-Based Reform and the Constitution

by Winnifred Fallers Sullivan

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691152535
• ISBN13: 9780691152530
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.9"