Down in the Chapel: Religious Life in an American Prison

by Joshua Dubler

Book Overview

A bold and provocative interpretation of one of the most religiously vibrant places in America--a state penitentiary

Baraka, Al, Teddy, and Sayyid--four black men from South Philadelphia, two Christian and two Muslim--are serving life sentences at Pennsylvania's maximum-security Graterford Prison. All of them work in Graterford's chapel, a place that is at once a sanctuary for religious contemplation and an arena for disputing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374120706
• ISBN13: 9780374120702
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 9.4"