Bibliograph

If I give my soul, faith behind bars in Rio de Janeiro, Andrew Johnson

Type

Label

If I give my soul, faith behind bars in Rio de Janeiro, Andrew Johnson

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

If I give my soul

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionariesbibliography

Oclc number

990685814

Responsibility statement

Andrew Johnson

Series statement

Oxford scholarship online.

Sub title

faith behind bars in Rio de Janeiro

Summary

Prisons and jails in Rio de Janeiro are violent and crowded; they are governed by narco-gangs and are intensely religious spaces. Rio's penal institutions reflect the social world of the poor neighbourhoods where most of the inmates lived before their arrests. They are places where the state has a weak presence and residents organize around nonstate entities, primarily gangs or Pentecostal churches. Inside of prison, Pentecostal inmates form churches that resemble the gangs in organization and leadership structure. The gangs allow the churches to function autonomously. To gather data on the these groups, the author spent two weeks living inside a prison in Brazil and then collected ethnographic data by regularly visiting one prison and one jail in Rio de Janeiro for a year.--, Provided by publisher

Target audience

specialized

Creator