The philosopher Simon May has proposed that while many have given up on God in the West, we still long for the unconditional love that God used to offer.
It opened in 1829 and was based on the philosophy that isolating inmates gave them a useful opportunity to get closer to God and to offer penitence (like "penitentiary, " get it?) for their crimes.
By way of an example, we met Mick, who has embraced the spiritual side of prison and to illustrate this has created a display of what God and prison can offer.
Gathering in fields or villages during community festivals, members of the Korean ethnic group in Jilin and other provinces in north-eastern China offer a traditional sacrifice to the God of the Land to pay homage to nature and pray for good fortune and a plentiful harvest.