RT Article
T1 Spiritual life and the rationalization of violence: the state within the state and evangelical order in a Venezuelan prison
JF Carceral communities in Latin America
SP 321
OP 338
A1 Duno Gottberg, Luis 1968-
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/194573843X
AB This chapter explores inmate rule and religious mediation within a complex power structure that regulates and rationalizes violence inside a Venezuelan prison. It argues that the State seemingly delegated (or relinquished) the internal control of the facility to prisoners. In turn, the “inmate government” delegated certain regulatory and disciplinary functions to the Evangelical community. In this manner, the structural issues of Venezuelan and Latin American penitentiaries intertwine with a very particular context in which, it is argued here, a state-within-the-state instrumentalized religious structures to consolidate its power and regulate violence. The first two sections describe the way in which evangelicals understand/represent the current power structures in the prison, and the relationship between the religious and the secular. The rest explains the economic and social functions fulfilled by the religious sphere in the prison.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 337-338
SN 9783030614980