SUBJETIVIDADES PUNITIVAS E PASTORAL DO ENCARCERAMENTO: CONTRIBUIÇÕES FOUCAULTIANAS PARA A TEOLOGIA DEBATER O FIM DAS PRISÕES.

Brazil has the third largest prison population in the world and the largest in Latin America, a reality marked by mass incarceration, penal selectivity and the practice of torture. However, while prisons appear as outrageous and unacceptable, it is as if they were natural and intrinsic to social life. Faced with this sad and distressing situation, it is opportune to pursue the intertwining between theologies and prisons, in order to point to other solutions for overcoming state violence. This article seeks to present the results of the Master's research defended in the Graduate Program in Theology on incarceration, which was approved with honors, with an indication for publication. To understand the intertwining between theologies and prisons, as well as to draw contributions to the overcoming of incarceration, based on Public Theology, it was necessary to make use of the theoretical contributions of Michel Foucault. In this way, we will expose what we have called the pastoral of incarceration, as a type of power that, dedicating itself to detail, develops the matrix of the political government of men that will develop in modernity, as well as based on the extraction of truth and atonement for faults produces modern subjectivity. The article is based on the works of Michel Foucault, Surveiller et punir (1975), Securité, territoire et population (1978) and Du gouvernement des vivants(1980), presenting, respectively, disciplinary power, governmentality and pastoral power, and real acts. At the end, I outline some final considerations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]