REL 511
The criminal-penal system in the United States is a complex web of mutually rein-forcing institutions, practices, & moral val-ues. This course focuses on the religious concepts that have informed our moral imaginations, which in turn, inform the so-cial practices we enact and the institutions we build & maintain. The course also ex-plores the religious concepts that have in-formed social & political resistance against our criminal-penal system.
*Undergraduates who wish to enroll, please contact awaldner@illnois.edu