Jason S Sexton
Biographic Data
| ID | 1196802 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jason S Sexton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jason S |
| FAMILY NAME | Sexton |
| SIGNATURE | SEXTON J S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8408-5034 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Mapping the Conversation on Faith, Flourishing, and the Environment
Reconceiving Christianity and the Modern Prison
In the aftermath of World War II, eugenics and the pseudoscientific base used to justify its practices are generally understood to have phased off the scene. If, however, eugenics never actually disappeared but has been persistent, and in turn becomes one of the best explanations for mass incarceration today, what role did Christianity—especially Evangelicalism—play in this unprecedented moment of imprisonment? Building on legal scholarship ident…
On the Relevant Conversation of Theology’s Relevance in the University and Society Today
Ten Tips to De-Carcerate Your Theology, Ethics, or Religion Classroom
The authors offer advice for those teaching about prisons and criminal justice in religion, ethics, and theology contexts. They examine such issues as the use of language about crime and incarceration, the way race and economics can enter the conversation, and the role carceral thinking can play in pedagogy in general. Each piece of advice is accompanied by a list of resources to explore it in more depth
The Critical Study of Religion and Division in the Age of Covid-19
The Covid-19 pandemic presented enormous challenges for secular and religious institutions as well as religion scholars engaged in the critical study of religion. The unique opportunities for scholars of religion include questions about the very nature of our academic work. Inclusive of scholarly research and dissemination, along with the administrative work and service that facilitates this, is academic work to draw from the rich wellspring of t…
Joshua Dubler and Vincent W Lloyd, Break Every Yoke
Constructing a Christian theology for the pluralistic world
Experiencing Justice from the Inside Out
Recent suggestions have been made that theology may have more to offer on matters related to the subjects of punishment, corrections, and rehabilitation than has often been acknowledged in the scholarly literature. This essay sets out to explore the merits of such claims with regard to how they might assist ongoing efforts to address mass incarceration, including the theological dimensions of punitive justice along with other potentially redempti…
Redeemed on the Inside
Among various carceral governance structures meant to punish, educate, and rehabilitate is the carceral governance structure of the church with its dynamic structure operative in the reconstitution of prisoners’ humanity. Presenting an interdisciplinary theological vision of this phenomenon found in the material content of personal faith, this paper presents preliminary results of twenty-four interviews of former prisoners who participated in the…
Confessional Theology in Public Places
This article considers the nature of public theology by assessing essential features of western public space and precisely how Christian confession takes shape in those contexts. In doing so the article argues that instead of understanding theology as something done primarily from the church to the world, perhaps it is best acknowledged that theology is done within the setting of common societal structures, in particular locations and in situatio…
Missional Theology’s Missing Ingredient
Features of the “missional” conversation revolve around discussions of the ecclesial and divine mission. Largely an intra-Evangelical debate, with relevance to other traditions, this conversation has lacked representation from systematic theology. This article argues that the aim for diversity and listening to other voices that missiology excels at often stops short of seeing things as systematic theology might render them. The integrity of syste…
Toward a prison theology of California's ecclesia incarcerate
The State of California has been a trendsetter in radical forms of penal policy and mass-incarceration in Western societies. As such California's prison state and its governance structures demand careful scrutiny. These governance structures are both formal and informal, manifesting different power structures at play within the system. Any proper theological account of such phenomena needs to reckon not only with these extant structures but also …
Ten Tips to De-Carcerate Your Theology, Ethics, or Religion Classroom
The authors offer advice for those teaching about prisons and criminal justice in religion, ethics, and theology contexts. They examine such issues as the use of language about crime and incarceration, the way race and economics can enter the conversation, and the role carceral thinking can play in pedagogy in general. Each piece of advice is accompanied by a list of resources to explore it in more depth
The Critical Study of Religion and Division in the Age of Covid-19
The Covid-19 pandemic presented enormous challenges for secular and religious institutions as well as religion scholars engaged in the critical study of religion. The unique opportunities for scholars of religion include questions about the very nature of our academic work. Inclusive of scholarly research and dissemination, along with the administrative work and service that facilitates this, is academic work to draw from the rich wellspring of t…
Toward a prison theology of California's ecclesia incarcerate
The State of California has been a trendsetter in radical forms of penal policy and mass-incarceration in Western societies. As such California's prison state and its governance structures demand careful scrutiny. These governance structures are both formal and informal, manifesting different power structures at play within the system. Any proper theological account of such phenomena needs to reckon not only with these extant structures but also …
Missional Theology’s Missing Ingredient
Features of the “missional” conversation revolve around discussions of the ecclesial and divine mission. Largely an intra-Evangelical debate, with relevance to other traditions, this conversation has lacked representation from systematic theology. This article argues that the aim for diversity and listening to other voices that missiology excels at often stops short of seeing things as systematic theology might render them. The integrity of syste…
Toward a prison theology of California's ecclesia incarcerate
The State of California has been a trendsetter in radical forms of penal policy and mass-incarceration in Western societies. As such California's prison state and its governance structures demand careful scrutiny. These governance structures are both formal and informal, manifesting different power structures at play within the system. Any proper theological account of such phenomena needs to reckon not only with these extant structures but also …
Confessional Theology in Public Places
This article considers the nature of public theology by assessing essential features of western public space and precisely how Christian confession takes shape in those contexts. In doing so the article argues that instead of understanding theology as something done primarily from the church to the world, perhaps it is best acknowledged that theology is done within the setting of common societal structures, in particular locations and in situatio…
Redeemed on the Inside
Among various carceral governance structures meant to punish, educate, and rehabilitate is the carceral governance structure of the church with its dynamic structure operative in the reconstitution of prisoners’ humanity. Presenting an interdisciplinary theological vision of this phenomenon found in the material content of personal faith, this paper presents preliminary results of twenty-four interviews of former prisoners who participated in the…
Constructing a Christian theology for the pluralistic world
Experiencing Justice from the Inside Out
Recent suggestions have been made that theology may have more to offer on matters related to the subjects of punishment, corrections, and rehabilitation than has often been acknowledged in the scholarly literature. This essay sets out to explore the merits of such claims with regard to how they might assist ongoing efforts to address mass incarceration, including the theological dimensions of punitive justice along with other potentially redempti…
The Critical Study of Religion and Division in the Age of Covid-19
The Covid-19 pandemic presented enormous challenges for secular and religious institutions as well as religion scholars engaged in the critical study of religion. The unique opportunities for scholars of religion include questions about the very nature of our academic work. Inclusive of scholarly research and dissemination, along with the administrative work and service that facilitates this, is academic work to draw from the rich wellspring of t…
Joshua Dubler and Vincent W Lloyd, Break Every Yoke
On the Relevant Conversation of Theology’s Relevance in the University and Society Today
Ten Tips to De-Carcerate Your Theology, Ethics, or Religion Classroom
The authors offer advice for those teaching about prisons and criminal justice in religion, ethics, and theology contexts. They examine such issues as the use of language about crime and incarceration, the way race and economics can enter the conversation, and the role carceral thinking can play in pedagogy in general. Each piece of advice is accompanied by a list of resources to explore it in more depth
Reconceiving Christianity and the Modern Prison
In the aftermath of World War II, eugenics and the pseudoscientific base used to justify its practices are generally understood to have phased off the scene. If, however, eugenics never actually disappeared but has been persistent, and in turn becomes one of the best explanations for mass incarceration today, what role did Christianity—especially Evangelicalism—play in this unprecedented moment of imprisonment? Building on legal scholarship ident…
Mapping the Conversation on Faith, Flourishing, and the Environment
Sociology (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (8 works) · Christian Theology and Mission (6 works) · Criminology (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Theology (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works)