{"product_id":"break-every-yoke-religion-justice-and-the-abolition-of-prisons-hardcover","title":"Break Every Yoke: Religion, Justice, and the Abolition of Prisons - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoshua Dubler\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eVincent Lloyd\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChanges in the American religious landscape enabled the rise of mass incarceration. Religious ideas and practices also offer a key for ending mass incarceration. These are the bold claims advanced by \u003cem\u003eBreak Every Yoke\u003c\/em\u003e, the joint work of two activist-scholars of American religion. Once, in an era not too long past, Americans, both incarcerated and free, spoke a language of social liberation animated by religion. In the era of mass incarceration, we have largely forgotten how to dream-and organize-this way. To end mass incarceration we must reclaim this lost tradition. Properly conceived, the movement we need must demand not prison reform but prison abolition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eBreak Every Yoke\u003c\/em\u003e weaves religion into the stories about race, politics, and economics that conventionally account for America's grotesque prison expansion of the last half century, and in so doing it sheds new light on one of our era's biggest human catastrophes. By foregrounding the role of religion in the way political elites, religious institutions, and incarcerated activists talk about incarceration, \u003cem\u003eBreak Every Yoke\u003c\/em\u003e is an effort to stretch the American moral imagination and contribute resources toward envisioning alternative ways of doing justice. By looking back to nineteenth century abolitionism, and by turning to today's grassroots activists, it argues for reclaiming the abolition \"spirit.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJoshua Dubler \u003c\/strong\u003eis Assistant Professor of Religion at the University of Rochester. He is the author of\u003cem\u003e Down in the Chapel: Religious Life in an American Prison \u003c\/em\u003eand co-editor of \u003cem\u003eReligion, Law, U.S.A. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVincent Lloyd\u003c\/strong\u003e is Associate Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at Villanova University. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eBlack Natural Law, Religion of the Field Negro, \u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eIn Defense of Charisma.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 264\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 9.3 x 6.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 11, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52403378782513,"sku":"9780190949150","price":89.06,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0958\/3486\/5969\/files\/bnNHMGpISzVvS0VSYWovdW5YL3pUQT09.webp?v=1768917875","url":"https:\/\/www.welibooks.com\/products\/break-every-yoke-religion-justice-and-the-abolition-of-prisons-hardcover","provider":"Welibooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}