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If I Give My Soul - Faith Behind Bars in Rio de Janeiro (Paperback)
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If I Give My Soul - Faith Behind Bars in Rio de Janeiro (Paperback)
Series: Global Pentecost Charismat Christianity
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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.
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