Andrew Johnson

If I Give My Soul

Faith Behind Bars in Rio de Janeiro

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Produktbeschreibung

Pentecostal Christianity is flourishing inside the prisons of Rio de Janeiro. To find out why, Andrew Johnson dug deep into the prisons themselves, spending two weeks living in a Brazilian prison as if he were an inmate and returning many times afterward to speak to the men and observe prison churches's worship services, which were led by inmates. If I Give My Soul provides a deeply personal look at the relationship between the margins of Brazilian societyand the Pentecostal faith, both behind bars and in the favelas, Rio de Janeiro's peripheral neighborhoods.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9780190238995
• ISBN-10: 0190238992
• Artikelnr.: 47863016

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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