Down in the Chapel: Religious Life in an American Prison

[...]the seven days are a way of documenting the mind-boggling array of religious practices held in the chapel. The prisoners, all of them serving terms of life without possibility of parole, serve as clerks, janitors, and technical assistants, and they enjoy the relative privileges of chapel work i...

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Published in:Sociology of religion 2014, Vol.75 (3), p.488-489
Main Author: Warner, R. Stephen
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
Prison industries
Prisoners
Prisons
Religion
Religiosity
Religious life
U.S.A
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Summary:[...]the seven days are a way of documenting the mind-boggling array of religious practices held in the chapel. The prisoners, all of them serving terms of life without possibility of parole, serve as clerks, janitors, and technical assistants, and they enjoy the relative privileges of chapel work in preference to greater pay in one of the prison industries.
ISSN:1069-4404
1759-8818
DOI:10.1093/socrel/sru044