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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 important questions through a close examination of a 2005 lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a faith-based residential rehabilitation program in an Iowa state prison. Americans United for the Separation of Church and State v. Prison Fellowship Ministries, a trial in which Sullivan served as an expert witness, centered on the constitutionality of allowing religious organizations to operate programs in state-run facilities. Using the trial as a case study, Sullivan argues that separation of church and state is no longer possible. Religious authority has shifted from institutions to individuals, making it difficult to define religion, let alone disentangle it from the state. "Prison Religion" casts new light on church-state law, the debate over government-funded faith-based programs, and the predicament of prisoners who have precious little choice about what kind of rehabilitation they receive, if they are offered any at all.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Religion & beliefs Religion: general

• Full title: Prison Religion
• Author: Winnifred Fallers Sullivan
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320
• EAN: 9780691152530
• ISBN: 0691152535
• ID: 04641920
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Weight: 438 g
• Dimensions: 154 × 230 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 02. September 2011

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