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God in captivity : the rise of faith-based prison ministries in the age of mass incarceration / by Erzen, Tanya,author.(CARDINAL)790288;
Includes bibliographical references and index."It is by now well known that the United States incarceration rate is the highest in the world. What is not broadly understood is how cash-strapped and overcrowded state and federal prisons are increasingly relying on religious organizations to provide educational and mental health services and to help maintain order. And these religious organizations are overwhelmingly run by nondenominational Protestant Christians who see prisoners as captive audiences.Some twenty thousand of these Evangelical Christian volunteers now run educational programs in over three hundred US prisons, jails, and detention centers. Prison seminary programs are flourishing in states as diverse as Texas and Tennessee, California and Illinois, and almost half of the federal prisons operate or are developing faith-based residential programs. Tanya Erzen gained inside access to many of these programs, spending time with prisoners, wardens, and members of faith-based ministries in six states, at both male and female penitentiaries, to better understand both the nature of these ministries and their effects. What she discovered raises questions about how these ministries and the people who live in prison grapple with the meaning of punishment and redemption, as well as what legal and ethical issues emerge when conservative Christians are the main and sometimes only outside forces in a prison system that no longer offers even the pretense of rehabilitation. Yet Erzen also shows how prison ministries make undeniably positive impacts on the lives of many prisoners: men and women who have no hope of ever leaving prison can achieve personal growth, a sense of community, and a degree of liberation within the confines of their cells.With both empathy and a critical eye, God in Captivity grapples with the questions of how faith-based programs serve the punitive regime of the prison, becoming a method of control behind bars even as prisoners use them as a lifeline for self-transformation and dignity."-Amazon
Subjects: Church work with prisoners; Prisoners; Religious work with prisoners;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Wanted : a spiritual pursuit through jail, among outlaws, and across borders / by Hoke, Chris(Prison chaplain),author.(CARDINAL)407935;
"Interweaving his own story with ... vignettes and gritty experiences in hidden places, a jail chaplain and minister to ... gang and migrant worker communities chronicles his spiritual journey to the margins of society and reveals a subversive God who's on the loose beyond the walls of the church, pursuing those who are unwanted by the world"--Amazon.com.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Hoke, Chris (Prison chaplain); Prison chaplains; Church work with prisoners; Prisoners;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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Letters from the Dhamma Brothers : meditation behind bars / by Phillips, Jenny(Jenny K.),1942-2018.(CARDINAL)772097;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-219).
Subjects: Personal correspondence.; Criminals; Prisoners; Prisoners; Religious work with prisoners; Vipaśyanā (Buddhism);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Finding joy on death row : unexpected lessons from lives we discarded / by Williams, Charles Dewey,author.; Shelley, Braxton D.,author or foreword.(CARDINAL)867727;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-282).Foreword / by Braxton D. Shelley -- Introduction: Joy amid tragedy -- They mystery of joy -- Joy refreshed and renews -- Unexpected joy -- Joy is God's work -- Seeing joy clearly -- The cripplingof my joy -- Late-night joy -- Joy with shortages -- Joy grows dim -- Joy in community -- Selfishness and joy -- Joy overshadowed -- Joy within -- Separation and joy -- Joy take root -- Joy shared -- Joy blossoms -- Joyus reunion.Finding Joy on Death Row is the powerful story of a broken preacher's transformative experience learning about joy from death row prisoners, combined with profound handwritten responses from more than twenty men currently sentenced to die. As Pastor Dewey Williams serves and shepherds death row prisoners, their stories and unveiled, reminding him of his broken past. The testimonies and contemplations of those sentenced to death continue to bring Pastor Williams to his own place of healing, leading to a new understanding of joy in his life. This important work reveals the power joy has to reach us all, the free and imprisoned alike. Unprecedented and revealing, Finding Joy on Death Row provides a window into the tragedies, hardships, and victories of those sentenced to die, ultimately encouraging us that we are loved, forgiven, and capable of change.
Subjects: Biographies.; Death row inmates; Capital punishment; Prisoners; Church work with prisoners;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Spiritual entrepreneurs : Florida's faith-based prisons and the American carceral state / by Stoddard, Brad,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The overall rate of incarceration in the United States has been on the rise since 1970s, skyrocketing during Ronald Reagan's presidency, and recently reaching unprecedented highs. Looking for innovative solutions to the crises produced by gigantic prison populations, Florida's Department of Corrections claims to have found a partial remedy in the form of faith and character-based correctional institutions (FCBIs). While claiming to be open to all religious traditions, FCBIs are almost always run by Protestants situated within the politics of the Christian right. The religious programming is typically run by the incarcerated along with volunteers from outside the prison. Stoddard takes the reader deep inside FCBIs, analyzing the subtle meanings and difficult choices with which the incarcerated, prison administrators, staff, and chaplains grapple every day. Drawing on extensive ethnographic research and historical analysis, Brad Stoddard argues that FCBIs build on and demonstrate the compatibility of conservative Christian politics and neoliberal economics"--
Subjects: Church work with prisoners; Prisoners; Criminals; Faith-based human services; Evangelicalism;
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Death row chaplain : unbelievable true stories from America's most notorious prison / by Smith, Earl A.,1956-(CARDINAL)410066; Schlabach, Mark,1972-(CARDINAL)479290;
Includes bibliographical references.Introduction -- Fighting for acceptance -- Gang family -- God's rebel -- Born again -- Cell 66 -- Geronimo and Huey -- Robert Alton Harris -- Death row -- The baseball experiment -- Chess on Thursdays -- San Quentin choir -- Forgiveness -- Project IMPACT -- Faith by numbers.A riveting, behind-the-bars look at one of America's most feared prisons: San Quentin-- by a minister to the lost souls sitting on death row. Himself a former criminal, Smith shares the most important lessons he's learned from years of helping inmates discover God's plan for them. Their stories show us that it is still possible to find God's grace and mercy from behind bars, and that it's never too late to turn our lives around.From a former criminal and now chaplain for the San Francisco 49ers and the Golden State Warriors, comes a riveting, behind-the-bars look at one of America's most feared prisons: San Quentin. Reverend Earl Smith shares the most important lessons he's learned from years of helping inmates discover God's plan for them.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Smith, Earl A., 1956-; California State Prison at San Quentin.; Prison chaplains; Church work with prisoners; Prisoners; Criminals;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 6
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Lessons from San Quentin : everything I needed to know about life I learned in prison / by Dallas, Bill.; Barna, George.;
Includes bibliographical references (page 199).Introduction: Finding God in san quentin -- Life in the median strip -- I am H64741 -- Embrace your trials -- Cling to hope, even when you can't see it -- Express yourself through your work -- Choose sustaining faith -- Get your self-image right -- Get rid of self-absorption -- Shape your attitude -- Give respect -- Persevere until you get it -- Let life come to you -- Make life simple -- Find freedom in forgiveness -- Life after prison -- He was always in control.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Dallas, Bill.; California State Prison at San Quentin.; Christian converts; Prisoners; Prisoners; Success;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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More God, less crime : why faith matters and how it could matter more / by Johnson, Byron R.(CARDINAL)503658;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Includes bibliographical references.The last acceptable prejudice -- Preachers partner with police to reduce gang violence : the Boston miracle -- Children of prisoners : people of faith mentoring children of promise -- The Center for Neighborhood Enterprise and the violence-free zone -- A systematic review of the literature : 1944 to 2010 -- Can a faith-based prison reduce recidivism? -- Can a faith-based prison rehabilitate inmates? -- Jailhouse religion, spiritual transformation, and long-term change -- Why religion matters -- Prisoner reentry and aftercare -- Not by faith alone : the need for intermediaries.
Subjects: Christianity and justice.; Church work with criminals.; Crime prevention.; Crime; Criminology;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Heretics! : the wondrous (and dangerous) beginnings of modern philosophy / by Nadler, Steven M.,1958-author.(CARDINAL)345558; Nadler, Ben,author.(CARDINAL)632726;
"This entertaining and enlightening graphic narrative tells the exciting story of the seventeenth-century thinkers who challenged authority--sometimes risking excommunication, prison, and even death--to lay the foundations of modern philosophy and science and help usher in a new world...Heretics! tells the story of their ideas, lives, and times in a vivid new way. Crisscrossing Europe as it follows them in their travels and exiles, the narrative describes their meetings and clashes with each other--as well as their confrontations with religious and royal authority. It recounts key moments in the history of modern philosophy, including the burning of Giordano Bruno for heresy, Galileo's house arrest for defending Copernicanism, Descartes's proclaiming cogito ergo sum, Hobbes's vision of the "nasty and brutish" state of nature, and Spinoza's shocking Theological-Political Treatise." -- Publisher's description
Subjects: Graphic novels.; Young adult literature.; Comics (Graphic works); Young adult literature.; Philosophy, Modern;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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Lady Jayne disappears [large print] / by Politano, Joanna Davidson,1982-author.(CARDINAL)356012;
In this delightful debut, a sweet romance, Politano pens a clever story-within-a-story full of Victorian intrigue and ghosts. Aurelie Harcourt's father has just died, and she is leaving the only home she has ever known, Shepton Mallet debtor's prison, with the few things he left her: a trunk full of blank notebooks and his pen name, Nathaniel Droll. Initially planning to abandon his unfinished serial novel, Lady Jayne Disappears,which she has been transcribing for years, Aurelie decides, instead, to continue her father's work when she realizes that her Aunt Eudora's home, Lynhurst Manor, is the setting of her father's fiction. Lady Jayne was Aurelie's mother, and staying in the family home gives her the chance to try to uncover what really happened to her. But not everyone wants the family secrets revealed. Older readers who miss the great gothic romances of Victoria Holt, Phyllis Whitney, and Mary Stewart will enjoy Politano's tale, as will readers looking for a chaste romance. Also recommend to readers who enjoy Lauren Willig's historical romances.--
Subjects: Large print books.; Christian fiction.; Religious fiction.; Family secrets; Authorship;
Available copies: 12 / Total copies: 12
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