TY  - BOOK
AU  - Flores,Edward Orozco
TI  - "Jesus Saved an Ex-Con": Political Activism and Redemption after Incarceration 
T2  - Religion and Social Transformation
SN  - 9781479884148
AV  - BV4341 .F56 2019
U1  - 259.50973 23
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - New York University Press, 
KW  - Church work with ex-convicts
KW  - United States
KW  - Community organization
KW  - Faith-based human services
KW  - Minorities
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - 21st century
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Alinsky
KW  - Chicago School
KW  - Community Renewal Society
KW  - FORCE
KW  - Homeboys LOC
KW  - LA Voice
KW  - activist
KW  - civic activism
KW  - collective efficacy
KW  - community organizing
KW  - cultural citizenship
KW  - cultural deficit
KW  - faith-based community organizing
KW  - faith-based organizations
KW  - formerly incarcerated persons
KW  - formerly incarcerated
KW  - giving back
KW  - interpellation
KW  - issue-based
KW  - making good
KW  - narratives of participation
KW  - neoliberal
KW  - participant observation
KW  - personal reform
KW  - privatization
KW  - probation
KW  - prophetic redemption
KW  - rearticulation
KW  - recovery
KW  - rehabilitation
KW  - relationship-based
KW  - returning citizenship
KW  - social problems
KW  - structural barriers
N1  - restricted access
N2  - An examination of the efforts of faith-based organizations to expand the rights of the formerly incarcerated The use of religion to rehabilitate and redeem formerly incarcerated individuals has been a cultural touchstone of the modern era. Yet religious outreach to those with criminal records has typically been associated with an emphasis on private spirituality, with efforts focused on repentance, conversion, and restorative justice. This book sheds light on how faith-based organizations utilize the public arena, mobilizing to expand the social and political rights of former inmates. In "Jesus Saved an Ex-Con," Edward Orozco Flores profiles Community Renewal Society and LA Voice, two faith-based organizations which have actively waged community organizing campaigns to expand the rights of people with records. He illuminates how these groups help the formerly incarcerated re-enter broader communities through the expansion of citizenship rights and participation in civic engagement. Most work on prisoner reentry has focused on how the behavior of those with records may be changed through interventions, rather than considering how those with records may change the society that receives them. Flores explores how the formerly incarcerated use redemption scripts to participate in civic engagement, to remove the felony conviction question from employment applications and to restrict the use of criminal background checks in housing and employment. He shows that people with records can redeem themselves while also challenging and changing the way society receives them
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