Down in the Chapel: Religious Life in an American Prison
Joshua Dubler's ethnography of religion in a maximum-security prison is, among other things, a first-rate study of “lived religion.” The setting is the chapel at Graterford prison, 30 miles northwest of Philadelphia, where the author spent countless hours over the course of several years observ...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford Univ. Press
2014
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Sociology of religion
Year: 2014, Volume: 75, Issue: 3, Pages: 488-489 |
| Review of: | Down in the chapel: religious life in an American prison (New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013) (Warner, R. Stephen)
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| Summary: | Joshua Dubler's ethnography of religion in a maximum-security prison is, among other things, a first-rate study of “lived religion.” The setting is the chapel at Graterford prison, 30 miles northwest of Philadelphia, where the author spent countless hours over the course of several years observing religious services, talking with the prisoners and professional chaplains who work there, and teaching an occasional college-level course. The occasion for the research was the author's dissertation for a PhD in religious studies at Princeton. The framing device for his book is to compress his experience at Graterford into a narrative of one week spent in the chapel, seven 10-hour days during the winter of 2005–2006. |
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| ISSN: | 1759-8818 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociology of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/socrel/sru044 |