"As mulheres do Bom Pastor": uma análise da tatuagem como expressão da identidade religiosa de mulheres privadas de liberdade na cidade de João Pessoa

Abstract

The deprivation of freedom causes various feelings, among them, anguish, loneliness, fear. The prison culture itself is based on habits, customs, rules, behavioral systems and the women who enter there have their social identity modified by the dynamics established in the prison environment, characterizing the prison process. Memories become an asset of extreme importance and it is through them that you can preserve a little of yourself. Remembrance would be a genuine way of rebuilding, a way of surviving in that hostile space. In this sense, the process of tattooing in prison, in addition to being something cultural of intramural society, is configured in a language that expresses meanings and plays an important role in the imaginative life of the subject. In the prison environment the tattoos do not have the character of adornment only, they signal histories, diverse narratives, criminal faction, professed religion, etc. These corporal interventions acquire an ideological character and with different meanings. The present dissertation aims to analyze how the tattoo is an expression of the religious identity in the prison, especially in the Maria Julia Maranhao - Born Pastor Female Reeducation Center. Its specific objectives are to understand the process of building religious identity in prison, as well as to analyze the elements of tattooing and religion as something inherent in prison culture. The methodological path of this work is based on an ethnographic research. So, we will have as theoretical references the assumptions of Michael Foucault, Erving Goffman and other authors who work on this subject.