Prisoners of Hope: Intra-Prison Community Resources of Chilean Pentecostalism Between 1925 and 1950
Chilean Pentecostalism started its intra-prison activities in the Chilean prisons in 1925. It presented itself as a religious community with diverse community resources, which, in the first instance, allows the converted prisoner to take refuge in the intra-prison religious community, offering at le...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2024
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| In: |
International journal of Latin American religions
Year: 2024, Volume: 8, Issue: 2, Pages: 421-450 |
| Further subjects: | B
Prison
B Pentecostalism B Extra-prison communities B Intra-prison communities B Prisoners |
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| Summary: | Chilean Pentecostalism started its intra-prison activities in the Chilean prisons in 1925. It presented itself as a religious community with diverse community resources, which, in the first instance, allows the converted prisoner to take refuge in the intra-prison religious community, offering at least four significant community resources: (a) conversion as a ritual resource of community initiation; (b) symbolic resources resignify prison by differentiating between the guilt and the responsibility facing crime in the image of Satan, and proposing prison as a school, a space of painful learning; (c) hymns as community resources in which prayer and reading are individual, but singing is communal, as it transforms the community in a cathartic time and space; (d) finally, it offers community networks, as social resources for accompaniment, and the possibility of social reintegration. The methodology employed was access to institutional magazines as a source of information: (a) Review of Chile Pentecostal (1925-1950) and (b) Review of Fuego de Pentecostés (1928-1950). In total, approximately 300 magazines were reviewed. |
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| ISSN: | 2509-9965 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: International journal of Latin American religions
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s41603-024-00256-7 |
