Aaron Griffith, "Gods Law and Order: The Politics of Punishment in Evangelical America" (Harvard UP, 2020)
The rise of Neo-Evangelicalism as a social and political American movement accompanied shifting attitudes in broader American criminal justice policies. Religious leaders from Billy Graham to David Wilkerson found growing concerns around juvenile delinquency and general lawbreaking as strategic connection points for their evangelistic message and ministries. In\xa0God's Law and Order: The Politics of Punishment in Evangelical America\xa0(Harvard UP, 2020), Aaron Griffith explores the rhetoric of crime and punishment in the postwar Evangelical movement. The rhetoric of law and order became deeply enmeshed with religious conservatism, but not without attending\xa0efforts at criminal justice reform as growing number of Americans, disproportionately from urban and minority populations, spent years in state incarceration. In this expertly researched volume, Griffith presents a complex and important investigation into a timely subject in the recent past of the history of religion in politics in American society. Find out more about Aaron on his\xa0website\xa0or follow him on\xa0Twitter (@AaronLGriffith).\nRyan David Shelton\xa0(@ryoldfashioned) is a social historian of British and American Protestantism and a PhD researcher at Queen\u2019s University Belfast.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices\nSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/law