Down in the Chapel: Religious Life in an American Prison,Used
Down in the Chapel: Religious Life in an American Prison,Used

Down in the Chapel: Religious Life in an American Prison,Used

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A BOLD AND PROVOCATIVE EXPLORATION OF ONE OF THE MOST RELIGIOUSLY VIBRANT PLACES IN AMERICAA STATE PENITENTIARYBaraka, Al, Teddy, and Sayyid: Four black men from South Philly, two Christian and two Muslim, are serving life at Pennsylvania's maximumsecurity Graterford Prison. All of them work in the prison chapel, where they have regular opportunities to dispute the workings of God, faith, and selftransformation. And then Sayyid disappears.Down in the Chapel tells the story of one week in Graterford's chapel. We learn how the men at Graterford pass their time, care for themselves, foster relationships, and commune with their makers. We observe Evangelicals, Catholics, Jews, and black Muslims at prayer and study and song. And we watch what happens when an interloping scholar of religion is thrown into the mix with hopes of making sense of it all.When prisoners turn to God, they are often scorned as "bad men" who fake their piety or as "poor men" who have no better option than to adopt simplistic and rigid creeds. Joshua Dubler goes beyond these stereotypes to show the religious life of a prison in all its vital complexity. An essential interpretation of faith in an age of mass incarceration, Down in the Chapel reveals what prisoners do with religion, and what religion does with them.

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