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Religion and Prison: An Overview of Contemporary Europe

  • Explores governance of religion in prisons in Europe

  • Combines a legal and a sociological approach

  • Includes many countries not usually investigated

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Table of contents (26 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
  2. Religion and Prison: An Introduction

    • Julia Martínez-Ariño, Anne-Laure Zwilling
    Pages 1-9
  3. Belgium: Religions and Prisons in Law

    • Louis-Léon Christians, Stéphanie Wattier
    Pages 37-50
  4. Bulgaria: Religion in Prison

    • Daniela Kalkandjieva
    Pages 51-62
  5. Denmark: Christianity and Islam in Prisons – A Case of Secular Professionalisation of Chaplaincy

    • Henrik Reintoft Christensen, Lene Kühle, Niels Valdemar Vinding
    Pages 113-134
  6. Montenegro: Religion in Prisons

    • Nikola B. Šaranović
    Pages 257-268
  7. The Netherlands: Oligopoly Dynamics in the Penitentiary System

    • Kees de Groot, Sipco Vellenga
    Pages 269-283
  8. Norway: Religion in the Prison System

    • Helge Årsheim
    Pages 285-298
  9. Poland: Religious Assistance and Religious Practices in the Prisons

    • Michał Zawiślak, Michał Czelny, Aneta Abramowicz
    Pages 299-315

About this book

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.  

Keywords

  • Chaplaincy Models
  • Governance of Religious Diversity
  • Majority Churches
  • Prison Chaplaincy
  • Religion and Prison
  • Religious Freedom
  • Religion in Public Institutions
  • Religious Minorities
  • Religion-State Relation

Reviews

“Overall, this book offers some gems and valuable insights which uncover the European prison landscape. … this book is for the most part a rewarding text that deserves to be carefully cogitated upon.” (The Muslim World Book Review, Vol. 42 (2), 2022)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Theology & Religious Studies, University of Groningen, GRONINGEN, The Netherlands

    Julia Martínez-Ariño

  • UMR 7354 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Strasbourg, France

    Anne-Laure Zwilling

About the editors

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.

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Buying options

eBook USD 129.00
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  • ISBN: 978-3-030-36834-0
  • Instant PDF download
  • Readable on all devices
  • Own it forever
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  • Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout
Softcover Book USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
Hardcover Book USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)