Religion and Prison: An Overview of Contemporary Europe

This volume offers a European overview of the management of religious diversity in prisons and provides readers with rich empirical material and a comparative perspective.

The chapters combine both legal and sociological approaches. Coverage for each country includes historical background, current penitentiary organization, and recent changes or trends. In their exploration of legal aspects, the contributors look at such factors as the status of prison chaplains and regulations concerning religious practice and religious freedom. These include meals, prayers, and visits. The sociological analysis examines religious discrimination in prison, church-prison relations, conversion and proselytism, and more.

The European coverage includes countries for which such information is seldom available. The book offers readers a better understanding of governance of religion in prisons. This text appeals to students, researchers and professionals in the field.

Auteur

Julia Martínez-Ariño is Assistant Professor of Sociology of Religion at the University of Groningen (Netherlands). She received her PhD in Sociology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain). She has worked as research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity (Göttingen, Germany) and as postdoctoral researcher at the Université de Montréal (Canada). Her main research interests are the governance of religious diversity in public institutions, in particular in prisons, hospitals and schools, and cities. She has conducted fieldwork in Spain, Canada, Germany and France.

Anne-Laure Zwilling is a research fellow at the joint research unit Droit, Religion, Entreprise, Société of the University of Strasbourg and the French National Scientific Research Centre (CNRS), where she is the director of several international research projects. She holds MA degrees in philosophy and religious studies, a PhD in religious sciences and a habilitation in religious anthropology. Her fields of interest are religious minorities in France and Europe, and religious founding texts.

Contenu

Chapter1. Management of Religious Diversity in Austrian Prisons (Wolfram Reiss).- Chapter2. Religion and Prisons in the Belgian Law (Stéphanie Wattier, Louis-Léon Christians).- Chapter3. Religion in Prisons: Bulgaria (Daniela Kalkandjieva).- Chapter4. Religion in Prison in Croatia: Equal Access in a Predominantly Catholic Society (Sinisa Srinszak).- Chapter5. Prison and Religion in the Czech Republic (Záboj Horák).- Chapter6. Prison and Religion - The Czech Republic (Jan Váne).- Chapter7. Religion and Prisons in Denmark (Niels Waldemar Vinding).- Chapter8. Religion in Estonian Prisons since the 1990s (Ringo Ringvee).- Chapter9. Religion in prisons in Finland (Sami Puumala).- Chapter10. Worship in prison in France (Vincente Fortier).- chapter11. Religion in German Prisons (Sarah Jahn).- Chapter12. Religion in the Italian Prison System (Francesco Allicino).- Chapter13 Position of Religion in the Penitentiary Institutions in Latvia (Anita Stasulane).- Chapter14. Religion in Montenegrin Prisons (Nikola saranovic).- Chapter15. Oligopoly Dynamics in the Dutch Penitenriary System (Sipco Vellenga).- Chapter16. Religion in the Norwegian Prison System (Helge Arsheim).- Chapter17. Religious Care and Religious Practices in the Contemporary Polish Prison System (Michal Zawislack).- Chapter18. Religion in Prisons in Romania: Historical, Legal and Sociological Aspects (Gabriel Birsan).- Chapter19. Religion in Spanish Prisons: Socio-legal perspectives (Julia Martínez-Ariño).- chapter20. Religions and Spiritualities in Switzerland: Institutional Analysis (Anaïd Lindemann).- Chapter21. Religious Silent Retreat as Rehabilitation Treatment in Swedish Prisons (Per Pettersson).- Chapter21. Religious Care in Turkish Prisons (Ahmet Erdi Öztürk).- Chapter22. Prison and Religion in the United Kingdom (Andrew Todd).- Chapter23. A Short Word on Religion in Prison in Russia (Michail Chakhov).