A religious technology of the self: Rationality and religion in the rise of the modern penitentiary

Punishment and Society

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 195-220

  Smith, Peter Scharff ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b Danish Institute for Human Rights   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Foucault; Prisons; Rationality; Religion; Solitary confinement

Indexed keywords

EID: 14844282404     PISSN: 14624745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1462474504041265     Document Type: Article

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