Religion and Religions in Prisons: Observations from the United States and Europe

Despite manifest differences and internal variety, this article attempts to integrate the histories and present landscapes of religious practice in prison in the United States and in Western Europe. We identify, among incarcerated people in the United States, Italy, and Germany, discernible drifts t...

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Otros títulos:Symposium: Religion in Public Institutions in Cross-National Perspective
Autores principales: Becci, Irene 1973- (Autor) ; Dubler, Joshua 1974- (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
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Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell [2017]
En: Journal for the scientific study of religion
Año: 2017, Volumen: 56, Número: 2, Páginas: 241-247
(Cadenas de) Palabra clave estándar:B USA / Alemania / Italia / Prisión / Práctica religiosa / Diálogo interreligioso
Clasificaciones IxTheo:AD Sociología de la religión
KBB Región germanoparlante
KBJ Italia
KBQ América del Norte
Otras palabras clave:B Prison
B Religión
B Religious Freedom
B Incarceration
Acceso en línea: Volltext (Verlag)
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Sumario:Despite manifest differences and internal variety, this article attempts to integrate the histories and present landscapes of religious practice in prison in the United States and in Western Europe. We identify, among incarcerated people in the United States, Italy, and Germany, discernible drifts toward religious pluralization, privatization, and individualization. Over the past half-century, the administration of religion in prison has been loosened to allow for a wider variety of religious beliefs and practices. Meanwhile, as subsidized by outside volunteers, religion, especially of a socially “useful,” capitalism-friendly sort, remains a cost-effective means for prison administrators to efficiently subcontract their mandate to rehabilitate. Due to the decentralization and diversification of religion in contemporary prisons on both sides of the northern Atlantic, this article concludes by encouraging would-be ethnographers of the prison interested in religion to venture beyond the expressly delineated religious space and into what we call “religious gray zones.”
ISSN:1468-5906
Obras secundarias:Enthalten in: Journal for the scientific study of religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/jssr.12352