Outcast Sanctuary: California Golden State of the Disenfranchised
Exploring the Spiritual Worlds Of Political Refugees, Sex Workers, The Elderly, Inmates And Other Marginalized Communities – Revealing a dozen virtually invisible communities on California’s religious landscape.
California has long been sanctuary to people of myriad religious faiths –
those in the mainstream as well as those existing on the fringes of society.
While conventional middle class religion is widely visible, rarely seen are
the sacred worlds of marginalized groups: the outcasts, the fallen, those
society has labeled as “other” - those for whom religion was arguably first
formed, but who now worship as a means of finding refuge or of forging
community where they would otherwise have none.
