Christian Conservatism as Seen in Florida’s Faith-Based Prisons and the U.S. Debate on Abortion: Religiously Inspired or Politically Motivated?
The Experiment presents scholars of religion with an opportunity to draw upon their training to reflect upon a contemporary issue. In this edition, Emma Welch engages with Brad Stoddard’s newly released book Spiritual Entrepreneurs: Florida’s Faith-Based Prisons and the American Carceral State (Univ...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2022
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| In: |
Bulletin for the study of religion
Year: 2022, Volume: 51, Issue: 2, Pages: 56-61 |
| Review of: | Spiritual entrepreneurs (Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2021) (Welch, Emma)
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
USA
/ Prison
/ Religious organization
/ Conservatism
/ Christianity
/ Theology
/ Neo-liberalism
/ Abortion
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy CG Christianity and Politics CH Christianity and Society FD Contextual theology KBQ North America |
| Further subjects: | B
Prison
B Prisons B Conservatism B Religion B GOP B Politics B Christianity B faith-based prisons B Abortion B anti-abortion |
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| Summary: | The Experiment presents scholars of religion with an opportunity to draw upon their training to reflect upon a contemporary issue. In this edition, Emma Welch engages with Brad Stoddard’s newly released book Spiritual Entrepreneurs: Florida’s Faith-Based Prisons and the American Carceral State (University of North Carolina Press, 2021). Stoddard’s volume examines Florida’s Faith- and Character-Based Institutions (FCBIs) as sites illustrative of the collision of the politics of incarceration, neoliberal economics, and religious freedom in the United States. Drawing from Stoddard’s argument, Emma Welch considers how a similar convergence of U.S. conservative Christian values and political agendas occur around the issue of abortion. |
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| ISSN: | 2041-1871 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Bulletin for the study of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1558/bsor.25444 |
