Down in the Chapel: Religious Life in an American Prison

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 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 the works of God and man. Day in, day out, everything is, in its twisted way, ...