Description: If I Give My Soul : Faith Behind Bars in Rio De Janeiro, Hardcover by Johnson, Andrew, ISBN 0190238984, ISBN-13 9780190238988, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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 is 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.
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Book Title: If I Give My Soul : Faith Behind Bars in Rio de Janeiro
Number of Pages: 216 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Topic: Christianity / Pentecostal & Charismatic, General, Customs & Traditions, Sociology of Religion
Item Height: 0.7 in
Publication Year: 2017
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Religion, Social Science
Item Weight: 18.4 Oz
Author: Andrew Johnson
Item Length: 6.3 in
Item Width: 9.4 in
Book Series: Global Pentecost Charismat Christianity Ser.
Format: Hardcover
