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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

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Author

Sullivan, Winnifred Fallers

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780691152530

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, Religion, Law