No Godforsaken Place

Sarah C. Jobe is Co-Director of the Prison Studies Program at Duke Divinity School and Clinical Chaplain for the North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women, USA.

• PrefaceAcknowledgements Prelude Inhabiting Salvation: Living and Dying with Jesus in Prison Chapter 1Into the Witness Box: Methods and Motivation for WritingChapter 2The Crisis of Presence: Incarnating God in PrisonChapter 3Risking Atonement: Reconciling Race, Rank, and ReligionChapter 4Counting the Cost: Being Made Sin for the Sake of SalvationInterlude The Crucifixion and 58 Other Carceral DeathsChapter 5Recollecting Death. Dying with Jesus in PrisonChapter 6Inhabiting the Resurrection: The Work of Life After Death Postlude A Practical Soteriology: Penal Atonement in Prison BibliographyIndex

Ultimately, No Godforsaken Place offers a vital resource for military chaplains. From the chaplain serving in U.S. Army Corrections Command to the unit chaplain preparing for a detainee mission, this book will stretch and test one’s assumptions.