Abstract

MANCHADO, Mauricio. Religious apparatus and confinement: On Argentine prison governmentality. Rev. Mex. Sociol [online]. 2015, vol.77, n.2, pp.275-300. ISSN 2594-0651.

This paper inquires about the religious apparatus as a governmentality tactic of the penitentiary service in Argentina. With that end, it examines the historical link between the religious and prison apparatuses in the design of a modern penal system; it describes the introduction of a new religious apparatus in the national prisons, Pentecostal evangelism; it analyzes the discursive framework that makes possible the emergency of that apparatus as a governmentality tactic in Argentine prisons; finally, it investigates the configuration of new power relations (formal and informal reciprocities) that the religious apparatus generates in the routine of confinment.

Keywords : religion; jails; governmentality; power.

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