If I Give My Soul

Faith Behind Bars in Rio de Janeiro

Andrew Johnson (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2017
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-023899-5 (ISBN)

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Pentecostal Christianity is flourishing inside the prisons of Rio de Janeiro. To find out why, Andrew Johnson dug deep into the prisons themselves. He began by spending two weeks living in a Brazilian prison as if he were an inmate: sleeping in the same cells as the inmates, eating the same food, and participating in the men's daily routines as if he were incarcerated. And he returned many times afterward to observe prison churches' worship services, which were led by inmates who had been voted into positions of leadership by their fellow prisoners. He accompanied Pentecostal volunteers when they visited cells that were controlled by Rio's most dominant criminal gang to lead worship services, provide health care, and deliver other social services to the inmates. Why does this faith resonate so profoundly with the incarcerated? Pentecostalism, argues Johnson, is the "faith of the killable people" and offers ex-criminals and gang members the opportunity to positively reinvent their public personas. If I Give My Soul provides a deeply personal look at the relationship between the margins of Brazilian society and the Pentecostal faith, both behind bars and in the favelas, Rio de Janeiro's peripheral neighborhoods. Based on his intimate relationships with the figures in this book, Johnson makes a passionate case that Pentecostal practice behind bars is an act of political radicalism as much as a spiritual experience.

Andrew Johnson is an Assistant Professor at Metropolitain State University in St. Paul, Minnesota. He held previous positions at the Center for Religion and Civic Culture at the University of Southern California, at the Center for the Study of Religion at Princeton University, and was a Foreign Service Officer at the United States Agency for International Development.

Introduction

Chapter 1
Into the "Belly of the Beast"

Chapter 2
Rio's Famous Favelas and The Killable People

Chapter 3
Pentecostalism: The Faith of the Killable People

Chapter 4
A Gang of Pentecostals: Religious Practice Behind Bars in Rio de Janeiro.

Chapter 5
Prison Pentecostalism: A Faith Practiced.

Chapter 6
The Politics of Presence

Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum	11.07.2017
Reihe/Serie	Global Pentecost Charismat Christianity
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 231 mm
Gewicht	318 g
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-19-023899-2 / 0190238992
ISBN-13	978-0-19-023899-5 / 9780190238995
Zustand	Neuware