Evangelist of Incarceration? Billy Graham as Symbol for the Religious Problem of Mass Incarceration

This paper looks at Billy Graham as a symbol for a platonized Christianity that gives birth to and maintains the social problem of mass incarceration. I suggest Kelly Brown Douglass’s analytic of platonized Christianity provides a way of seeing Billy Graham as a symbol of this religious tradition. I...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bryson White
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Columbia University Libraries 2019-11-01
Series:Black Theology Papers Project
Online Access:https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/btpp/article/view/3865