Women Leaving Prison (eBook)

Justice-Seeking Spiritual Support for Female Returning Citizens

Jill L. Snodgrass (Autor)

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2018
256 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-4403-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Women Leaving Prison utilizes qualitative research methods to uncover the spiritual and religious experiences of female returning citizens. The findings ground the call for a revised prison ministry praxis that details how people of faith and concerned citizens can facilitate returning sisters’ successful reentry and work to eradicate structural injustices.

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Women Leaving Prison examines the oft-ignored experiences of female returning citizens, our returning sisters, who face numerous individual and systemic barriers as they return to life beyond bars. In the age of mass incarceration, with 700,000 inmates leaving prison each year, spiritual and religious support during reentry is a crucial component of prison ministry. Women Leaving Prison describes women's pathways to prison, their spiritual and religious experiences inside, and then utilizes interpretative phenomenological analysis, a qualitative research method, to uncover the spiritual and religious beliefs and practices of returning sisters. The findings from the qualitative study then ground the book's call for a revised prison ministry praxis, entitled Project Sister Connect, that details how churches, as well as concerned citizens and people of faith, can welcome and care for returning sisters. Project Sister Connect offers a model for facilitating female returning citizens' successful reentry via communal and individual spiritual care and support and by working toward the eradication of structural injustices.

Autor

Jill L. Snodgrass is associate professor of pastoral counseling at Loyola University Maryland.

Inhalt

Chapter 1: Sisters Inside: Pathways to Prison and Faith Behind BarsChapter 2: Coming Home: The Reentry Experiences of Returning SistersChapter 3: Faith Beyond Bars: Returning Sisters’ Spiritual and Religious Experiences During ReentryChapter 4: Project Sister Connect

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.11.2018
• Reihe/Serie: Emerging Perspectives in Pastoral Theology and Care
• Verlagsort: Lanham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Moraltheologie / Sozialethik
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Pastoraltheologie
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
• Schlagworte: Faith and Justice • female prisoners • Mass Incarceration • Pastoral Care • prison industrial complex • Prison Ministry • reentry • returning citizens
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-4403-7 / 1498544037
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-4403-0 / 9781498544030