Book panel: Jason A. Springs, Restorative Justice and Lived Religion: Transforming Mass Incarceration in Chicago (NYU Press 2024)

Taking a lived religion approach to the study of religious groups in Chicago that offer community-based alternatives to incarceration, Jason Springs’s book illuminates how the combination of pragmatism, political theology, and sociology contribute to transformative politics and justice-seeking. This is an opportunity for the Lutheran Scholars Network to consider the study of lived religion as a resource for a politically engaged constructive theology.