If I Give My Soul: Faith Behind Bars in Rio de Janeiro

by Andrew Johnson

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190238992
• ISBN13: 9780190238995
• Release Date: July 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"