Gods Law and Order - The Politics of Punishment in Evangelical America

There is more to the story of mass incarceration than civil rights backlash politics. It is also a religious story. Aaron Griffith points to the key role played by evangelical Christians, who worked for conversion of prisoners and pushed an anticrime agenda that, while ostensibly colorblind, exacerbated racial inequality in the justice system.

About the author

Aaron Griffith is Assistant Professor of American Church History at Duke University. A former fellow at the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics and instructor at Washington University’s Prison Education Project, he is the winner of the 2021 Emerging Public Intellectual Award, hosted by Redeemer University, for those in the Christian academy whose work impacts the common good. He has written for the Washington Post, Christianity Today, and Religion News Service.

Summary

There is more to the story of mass incarceration than civil rights backlash politics. It is also a religious story. Aaron Griffith points to the key role played by evangelical Christians, who worked for conversion of prisoners and pushed an anticrime agenda that, while ostensibly colorblind, exacerbated racial inequality in the justice system.

Product details

• Authors: Aaron Griffith
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2020
• EAN: 9780674238787
• ISBN: 978-0-674-23878-7
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State, RELIGION / Christianity / General, Christianity, Religion & politics, Religion and Politics, History of the Americas, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology