Dados is one of the most widely-read social sciences journals in Latin America. Created in 1966, it publishes innovative works, originating from academic research, by Brazilian and foreign authors. Edited by IESP-UERJ, it aims to reconcile scientific rigor and academic excellence with an emphasis on public debate based on the analysis of substantive issues of society and politics.
Dados vol. 60 n. 1 Rio de Janeiro jan./mar. 2017
Abstract
ABSTRACT The following article aims to investigate the narratives built by the Pentecostal-evangelical religious device in contexts of confinement in terms of the role they play in government tactics exercised by the prison service in Argentina. To do so, we analyze the techniques of social ordering assumed by church-pavilions, the spiritual/mundane cosmological division in the configuration of religious subjectivities and spaces in prison, and the discourses defining the Pentecostal narratives in confinement as forms of prosperity (whether medical, economic or penal). Taking two prisons in the province of Santa Fe as case studies, we conclude by seeking to understand the Pentecostal narratives in church-pavilions integrated with a government strategy that facilitates the management of the prisoner population, with this strategy based on correctionalist and paralyzing principles which reduce situations of conflict and define a prison service whose day-to-day functioning suffers from a lack of updates.
Keywords: narratives, prosperity, governmentality, prison, Pentecostalism
Restorative Prosperity: The Role of Pentecostal Narratives in Government Strategies Exercised by the Argentine Prison System
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