In This Place Called Prison

Women's Religious Life in the Shadow of Punishment
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-0-520-38454-5
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 228 mm x 151 mm, Gewicht: 322 g

In This Place Called Prison offers a vivid account of religious life within an institution designed to punish. Rachel Ellis conducted a year of ethnographic fieldwork inside a U.S. state women’s prison, talking with hundreds of incarcerated women, staff, and volunteers. Through their stories, Ellis shows how women draw on religion to navigate lived experiences of carceral control. A trenchant study of religion colliding and colluding with the state in an enduring tension between freedom and constraint, this book speaks to the quest for dignity and light against the backdrop of mass incarceration, state surveillance, and American inequality.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ellis, Rachel

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Religionssoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Introduction
1. Thou Shalt Not: A Day in Prison

2. Let There Be Light: Religious Life Behind Bars

3. The Lord Is My Shepherd: Protestant Messages
of God’s Redemptive Plan

4. Blessed Is The Fruit Of Thy Womb: Gender,
Religion, and Ideologies of the Family

5. For Many Are Called, But Few Are Chosen:

Status and Dignity in the Prison Church

Conclusion

Epilogue: Out of the House of Bondage

Acknowledgments

Methodological Appendix

Notes

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Rachel Ellis is Assistant Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland.