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Dubler, Joshua.

Seven days of penitentiary life: An ethnographic study of the chapel at Pennsylvania's Graterford Prison.

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Title/Author:	Seven days of penitentiary life: An ethnographic study of the chapel at Pennsylvania's Graterford Prison.
Author:	Dubler, Joshua.
Description:	560 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Leigh E. Schmidt.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-08, Section: A, page: 3179.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International69-08A.
Subject:	Religion, General.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3323181
ISBN:	9780549746645

Seven days of penitentiary life: An ethnographic study of the chapel at Pennsylvania's Graterford Prison.
Dubler, Joshua.

Seven days of penitentiary life: An ethnographic study of the chapel at Pennsylvania's Graterford Prison. - 560 p.

Adviser: Leigh E. Schmidt.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Princeton University, 2008.

An estimated 2.3 million Americans are now living in jail or in prison. Due to the mushrooming incarceration rates of the past three decades, prisoners now constitute over seven-tenths of one-percent of the United States' populace. This number represents two-fifths the size of America's Mormon population and one-third that of its Jews or Muslims There are roughly as many prisoners in the United States today as there are self-identified Native Americans and ten times the number of Amish. To date, however, scholars of American religion have documented little about the lived religion of this largely invisible population.

ISBN: 9780549746645Subjects--Topical Terms:

212708
Religion, General.

Seven days of penitentiary life: An ethnographic study of the chapel at Pennsylvania's Graterford Prison.
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520 $a An estimated 2.3 million Americans are now living in jail or in prison. Due to the mushrooming incarceration rates of the past three decades, prisoners now constitute over seven-tenths of one-percent of the United States' populace. This number represents two-fifths the size of America's Mormon population and one-third that of its Jews or Muslims There are roughly as many prisoners in the United States today as there are self-identified Native Americans and ten times the number of Amish. To date, however, scholars of American religion have documented little about the lived religion of this largely invisible population.
520 $a By means of the narrative device, one that exchanges monologue for chorus and seamlessness for dissonance, I am hoping to evade the reductive mode by which prisoners are commonly apprehended---that being as the personifications of the crimes for which they have been convicted. In pursuit of a compelling and just account then, the dissertation resists casting Graterford's religious prisoners into a fixed position in service of a particular scholarly argument, opting instead to afford them the messiness that is their due. By thickly describing the landscape of religious practices in a single prison chapel, the dissertation is an attempt to furnish an account as robust and rife with internal contradictions as are the men who animate its space. At its most ambitious then, Seven Days of Penitentiary Life is an intended intervention into the reductionist spirit that still haunts popular and scholarly discourses not only about criminality but about religion as well.
520 $a Structured as a narrative, the dissertation recounts the various goings on that took place during a single week in the chapel. Driving the narrative are descriptions of the chapel's ritual practices and the conversations I had with ritual participants and the fifteen men who earn between nineteen and 41 cents an hour as chapel clerks and janitors. Within this frame, the dissertation explores the range of knowings, doings and feelings available to Graterford's religious prisoners, at least as embodied in the chapel's formal religious practices and informal exchanges. Special attention is afforded to the problematics of religious pluralism, the varieties of scriptural interpretation and the history and topography of the Muslim community.
520 $a The dissertation is rooted in participant observation. Research took place predominantly in the prison chapel where on a weekly basis groups representing Graterford's thirteen officially recognized religious denominations convene roughly forty meetings of one kind or another including liturgical observances, textual studies, catechistic instructions and musical group rehearsals, activities that in a given week involve between a quarter and a third of the prison's population.
520 $a The present dissertation represents a modest first step toward remedying this oversight. The dissertation is an ethnographic study of the prison chapel at Pennsylvania's State Correctional Institution at Graterford. At the time of my research, Graterford housed an average of 3,500 prisoners, consisting of mutually sequestered classes of general population prisoners, parole violators and unprocessed arrestees. Among the general population are roughly eight hundred men serving the sentence of life without the possibility of parole.
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