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RELIGION

FORTHCOMING FORTHCOMING NEW

Finding Freedom When Religious Women and
in Confinement and Secular Asian Religions

The Role of Religion Interests Collide ZAYN R. KASSAM, EDITOR
in Prison Life Faith, Law, and the

2 VOLUMES Religious Exemption Debate
KENT R. KERLEY, EDITOR
SCOTT A. MERRIMAN

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This book examines the countervailing experiences of women and how their
What is the nature and impact of lives interface with religion.
faith and religion in prison? This book arguments in the religious exemption
summarizes contemporary and cutting- debate and explains why this issue FEATURES
edge research on religion in correctional continues to be so heated and • Examines how women draw upon
contexts, enabling a scientific controversial in modern-day America. their faith to address the issues they
understanding of how prisoners use faith FEATURES face in the changing contexts of
in their everyday lives. • Provides up-to-date coverage that globalization, religion and spirituality,
highlights the full history of religious and feminism
FEATURES
exemption cases from the 19th • Reveals the myriad ways in which
• Presents an international scope that through 21st centuries women across Asia are mobilizing
covers a diversity of faith traditions to become agents of change while
• Presents a detailed analysis of the
• Comprises contributions from Hobby Lobby case that stemmed from remaining firmly rooted in their
leading scholars who incorporate a corporation’s response to portions religious and cultural traditions
various research methodologies, of the Affordable Care Act, an ongoing • Highlights how religion can be a
such as surveys, in-depth interviews, topic of both scholarly and public powerful force for social change
participant observation, and content debate
analysis into their writings
ZAYN R. KASSAM, PhD, is John Knox
• Moves the discussion of religion SCOTT A. MERRIMAN is a lecturer McLean Professor of Religious Studies
in prison away from popular in history at Troy University. He has at Pomona College, Claremont, CA.
discourse, advocacy works, and authored or edited more than a
media stories that prioritize emotion dozen books, including ABC-CLIO’s
and sensationalism over empirical Religion and the Law in America: An
verification Encyclopedia of Personal Belief and
Public Policy.

KENT R. KERLEY, PhD, is professor
and chair in the Department of
Criminology and Criminal Justice at
The University of Texas at Arlington.
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