Spatiul carceral – instrumentalizare excesiva, ocultarea binomului religie-putere

Abstract

The point of departure of this article is the relation between religion and power. In general this relation is based upon the complex process of individualization and socialization. The scope of this study is to translate the problem of the relation between religion and power in a phenomenological study of “lock-up space” (prison space). The study is organized around the concept of delimitation. This concept involves the spatial dimension of constitutionality on the general forms of a person’s being -in-the-world. Regarding “lock-up space,” two complementary actions are brought into discussion: “obfuscating” the architectural types in the “lock-up space” and the “instrumentalization”(fr.) excessive in this type of space by the increase of the delimitation “mechanism.” Finally, the central problem of this analysis can be formulated in the following way: How can we find the binomial religion-power in the “obfuscating” manner of habitat (at the level of the “lock-up space”)? Does the excessive delimitation in “lock-up space” destroy the balance between individualization and socialization?