Religious Diversity in European Prisons Challenges and Implications
This book examines how prisons meet challenges of religious diversity, in an era of increasing multiculturalism and globalization. Social scientists studying corrections have noted the important role that religious or spiritual practice can have on rehabi
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Irene Becci • Olivier Roy Editors
Religious Diversity in European Prisons Challenges and Implications for Rehabilitation
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Editors Irene Becci ISSRC-FTSR University of Lausanne Lausanne Switzerland
Olivier Roy Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies European University Institute Florence Italy
ISBN 978-3-319-16777-0 ISBN 978-3-319-16778-7 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-16778-7 Library of Congress Control Number: 2015937902 Springer Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Acknowledgments
This book is the result of a long-term collaboration of a research network that recently met at the ReligioWest workshop “The formatting of religions: religious accommodation in prisons and the military,” on 11th and 12th of February 2013 at the European University Institute in Florence, organized by a team led by Kristina Stoeckl and Olivier Roy, and at the conference in Lausanne, on 21st and 22nd of May 2014, organized by a team led by Irene Becci, Jacques Besson, and Pierre-Yves Brandt at the University of Lausanne. The authors thank the organizers, the participants, and the funding institutions of the two workshops for having offered the perfect conditions to publish this work. A particular thanks go to the translator D.M. Barnes for some of the chapters, supported by the ReligioWest project funded by the European Research Council under the European Union’s 7th Framework Contract Ideas, the student assistants helping to shape the texts according to the editorial lines, A. Grandjean and M. Bruttin, supported by the Interfaculty Department for Religious History and Science at the University of Lausanne (DIHSR).
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1 European Research on Religious Diversity as a Factor in the Rehabilitation of Prisoners: An Introduction����������� 1 Irene Becci Part I The Ma
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