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America is the most punitive nation in the world, incarcerating more than 2.3 million people—or one in 136 of its residents. Against the backdrop of this unprecedented mass imprisonment, punishment permeates everyday life, carrying with it complex cultural meanings. In The Culture of Punishment, Michelle Brown goes beyond prison gates and into the routine and popular engagements of everyday life, showing that those of us most distanced from the practice of punishment tend to be particularly harsh in our judgments. The Culture of Punishment takes readers on a tour of the sites where culture and punishment meet—television shows, movies, prison tourism, and post 9/11 new war prisons—demonstrating that because incarceration affects people along distinct race and class lines, it is only a privileged group of citizens who are removed from the experience of incarceration. These penal spectators, who often sanction the infliction of pain from a distance, risk overlooking the reasons for democratic oversight of the project of punishment and, more broadly, justifications for the prohibition of pain.

Prisons --- Imprisonment --- Punishment --- Dungeons --- Gaols --- Penitentiaries --- Correctional institutions --- Prison-industrial complex --- Confinement --- Incarceration --- Corrections --- Detention of persons --- Penalties (Criminal law) --- Penology --- Impunity --- Retribution --- Social aspects. --- Social aspects --- School-to-prison pipeline --- Punishment - Social aspects --- Imprisonment - Social aspects --- Prisons - Social aspects

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According to a longstanding interpretation, book religions are agents of textuality and logocentrism. This volume inverts the traditional perspective: its focus is on the strong dependency between scripture and aesthetics, holy books and material artworks, sacred texts and ritual performances. The contributions, written by a group of international specialists in Western, Byzantine, Islamic and Jewish Art, are committed to a comparative and transcultural approach. The authors reflect upon the different strategies of »clothing« sacred texts with precious materials and elaborate forms. They show how the pretypographic cultures of the Middle Ages used book ornaments as media for building a close relation between the divine words and their human audience. By exploring how art shapes the religious practice of books, and how the religious use of books shapes the evolution of artistic practices this book contributes to a new understanding of the deep nexus between sacred scripture and art.

Aesthetics --- Art and religion --- Religious literature --- Sacred books --- 291.8 --- 22:7 --- 22:7 Bible et art --- 22:7 Bijbel en kunst --- Bible et art --- Bijbel en kunst --- Religious aspects --- History and criticism --- Bronnen van de godsdienst: openbaring in heilige boeken en traditie; religieuze beslissingen --- 291.8 Bronnen van de godsdienst: openbaring in heilige boeken en traditie; religieuze beslissingen --- Art --- Arts in the church --- Religion and art --- Religion --- 091:22 --- 091:22 Bijbels--(handschriften) --- Bijbels--(handschriften) --- Radio broadcasting Aesthetics --- Art and religion. --- Religious aspects. --- History and criticism. --- Book illumination. --- Book religion. --- Materiality. --- Ornament.