Break every yoke : religion, justice, and the abolition of prisons / Joshua Dubler and Vincent W. Lloyd.

Break every yoke : religion, justice, and the abolition of prisons / Joshua Dubler and Vincent W. Lloyd.

9780190949181 (electronic book)

New York : Oxford University Press, 2020.

English

1 online resource (256 pages).

HV9466 .D73 2020

261.83360973

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.

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.

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