The Furnace of Affliction: Prisons and Religion in Antebellum America
Like all good histories, Furnace of Affliction is about more than one thing. In examining the complex, evolving relationships among Protestant reformers, prisoners, and the state that marked the establishment of the prison system in New York during the early national and antebellum eras (1796–1860),...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2011
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A journal of church and state
Year: 2011, Volume: 53, Issue: 4, Pages: 680-681 |
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| Summary: | Like all good histories, Furnace of Affliction is about more than one thing. In examining the complex, evolving relationships among Protestant reformers, prisoners, and the state that marked the establishment of the prison system in New York during the early national and antebellum eras (1796–1860), the book has much to say about religion, reform, and, in Jennifer Graber's view, society in pre–Civil War America. She asserts at the outset that her story reveals “Americans' complicated commitments to religion in the public sphere” (p. 6), and she insists in an epilogue that her story does not show that over time “religion began to matter less,” only that certain Protestant practices changed (p. 184). |
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| ISSN: | 2040-4867 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/csr094 |