Catholic Social Thought and Prison Ministry

This book explores how the themes and insights of official Catholic Social Teaching (CST) and broader Catholic social thought might illuminate - and be illuminated by a deeper engagement with - the context of prisons.

Autorentext

Elizabeth Phillips is Director of Education and Engagement at the Woolf Institute, Cambridge, UK.

Férdia J. Stone-Davis is Director of Research at the Margaret Beaufort Institute of Theology, Cambridge, UK.

Inhalt

Part 1 CST Informing Prison Ministry 1. Solidarity, Social Sin, and Prison Ministry 2. Common Good and Prison: Where's the Commonality? Where's the Good? 3. Prison, Work, and Human Dignity Part 2 Prisons Informing CST 4. Sitting Where They Sit: A Theology of Vulnerability 5. Hope, Despair, and Desistance: What Happens after People Are Imprisoned as "Sex Offenders"? 6. Prison Chaplains as Truthtellers: Speaking In, To, and About Prisons Part 3 Critical Perspectives on Prisons and CST 7. Prison Chaplaincy and Criminal Justice: A Critical and Creative Dialogue 8. "An Unchristian Institution": Christian Prison Chaplains and Penal Abolition 9. Catholic Social Thought and Prisons: How Focus on Individual Reform Obscured the Relational Harms of Imprisonment