The furnace of affliction : prisons & religion in antebellum America / Jennifer Graber.
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TextSeries: Book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2011.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 234 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - 9780807877838
- 0807877832
- 9781469603339
- 1469603330
- Religious work with prisoners -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Corrections -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Prisoners -- Religious life -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Protestantism -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Pastorale des prisonniers -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- Services correctionnels -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- Prisonniers -- Vie religieuse -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- Protestantisme -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Penology
- RELIGION -- Christian Life -- Social Issues
- Corrections
- Prisoners -- Religious life
- Protestantism
- Religious work with prisoners
- United States
- 1800-1899
- 365/.665097309034 22
- HV8865 .G73 2011eb
- online - EBSCO
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-222) and index.
The prison as garden, 1796-1804 -- The furnace of affliction, 1805-1823 -- The furnace at Auburn, 1816-1827 -- The furnace at Sing Sing, 1828-1839 -- The furnace transformed, 1840-1847 -- The prison as hell, 1848-1860.
Print version record.
Focused on the intersection of Christianity and politics in the American penitentiary system, Jennifer Graber explores evangelical Protestants' efforts to make religion central to emerging practices and philosophies of prison discipline from the 1790s to the 1850s.
English.