Table Of ContentReligious Diversity in European Prisons
Irene Becci • Olivier Roy
Editors
Religious Diversity
in European Prisons
Challenges and Implications
for Rehabilitation
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Editors
Irene Becci Olivier Roy
ISSRC-FTSR Robert Schuman Centre for
University of Lausanne Advanced Studies
Lausanne European University Institute
Switzerland Florence
Italy
ISBN 978-3-319-16777-0 ISBN 978-3-319-16778-7 (eBook)
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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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Contents
1 European Research on Religious Diversity
as a Factor in the Rehabilitation of Prisoners: An Introduction ........... 1
Irene Becci
Part I T he Making and Working of Multi-faith Prison Chaplaincies
2 Religious Diversity and Rehabilitation in Prisons:
Management, Models and Mutations ....................................................... 15
James A. Beckford
3 T he Effects of Religious Diversity on Spiritual Care:
Reflections from the Dutch Correction Facilities .................................... 31
Mohamed Ajouaou and Ton Bernts
4 A n Outline of the Construction of the Islamic Council for
Prisons in Belgium...................................................................................... 47
Farid El Asri
Part II Religious Diversity on the Way to Recognition
in Secular Prison Rehabilitation Programmes
5 Religion, Reintegration and Rehabilitation in French
Prisons: The Impact of Prison Secularism .............................................. 63
Corinne Rostaing, Céline Béraud and Claire de Galembert
6 Institutional Logic and Legal Practice: Modes of Regulation
of Religious Organizations in German Prisons ....................................... 81
Sarah J. Jahn
7 A ddressing Religious Differences in Italian Prisons:
A Postsecular Perspective .......................................................................... 101
Valeria Fabretti
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8 Religious Care in the Reinvented European Imamate
Muslims and Their Guides in Italian Prisons ���������������������������������������� 117
Khalid M� Rhazzali
Part III New Approaches to the Junction of Rehabilitation
and Religion in the Prison Realm
9 Doing Yoga Behind Bars: A Sociological Study of the Growth
of Holistic Spirituality in Penitentiary Institutions������������������������������� 141
Mar Griera and Anna Clot-Garrell
10 Languages of Change in Prison: Thoughts About the
Homologies Between Secular Rehabilitation, Religious
Conversion and Spiritual Quest ������������������������������������������������������������� 159
Irene Becci
11 R estorative Justice: Asserted Benefits and Existing Obstacles
in France ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 177
Frédéric Rognon
12 C onclusion and Perspectives ������������������������������������������������������������������� 187
Olivier Roy
Index ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 191
About the Editors
Irene Becci is a Professor for “Religious Plurality and new spiritualities” at the
Institute of Social Sciences of Religion at the University of Lausanne. She holds
a Ph.D. in political and social sciences from the European University Institute.
She has worked on the topic of religion in prisons during her doctoral and on
religion for ex-prisoners in her postdoctoral studies, comparing Italy, Germany, and
Switzerland. She is currently enlarging her perspective to other state institutions
dealing with religious diversity and spirituality. She has published widely on the
subject, in particular: “Imprisoned Religion: Transformations of Religion During
and After Imprisonment in Eastern Germany” (2012, Farnham: Ashgate).
Olivier Roy is a Professor at the European University Institute where he heads
the Mediterranean Programme at the Robert Schuman Centre for advanced studies
and is a director of the program ReligioWest. He has been a senior researcher at
the French National Center for Scientific Research (since 1985), Professor at the
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (since 2003), and visiting Professor
at Berkeley University (2008/2009). He headed the OSCE’s Mission for Tajikistan
(1993–1994) and was a Consultant for the UN office of the Coordination for
Afghanistan (1988). His field work includes Afghanistan, Political Islam, Middle
East, Islam in the West, and comparative religions. He received an “Aggregation
de Philosophie” and a Ph.D. in Political Science. He is the author of “The failure of
Political Islam” (Harvard UP 1994), “Globalized Islam” (Columbia University Press
2004) and more recently of “La Sainte Ignorance” (“Holy Ignorance,” Columbia
University Press 2010). He is presently working on “Islamic norms in the public
sphere,” conversions, apostasy and comparative religions.
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Contributors
Mohamed Ajouaou Departement of Theology, VU University Amsterdam,
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Farid El Asri International University of Rabat, Rabat, Morocco
Céline Béraud CerreV, University of Caen, Caen, France
Irene Becci Institute for the Social Sciences of Contemporary Religions, University
of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
James A. Beckford Department of Sociology, University of Warwick, Coventry,
UK
Ton Bernts The Religion, Mind, Culture and Society Research Network, Radboud
University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Anna Clot-Garrell Sociology Department, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona,
Barcelona, Spain
Claire de Galembert Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan, Cachan, France
Valeria Fabretti Department ‘Scienze e Tecnologie della Formazione’ (STF) and
‘Centre for the Study and Documentation of Religions and Political Institutions in
Postsecular Society’ (CSPS), University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
Mar Griera Sociology Department, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona,
Barcelona, Spain
Sarah J. Jahn Center for Religious Studies—CERES, Ruhr-University Bochum,
Bochum, Germany
Khalid M. Rhazzali Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Pedagogy and Applied
Psychology-FISPPA, University of Padua, Veneto, Italy
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xii Contributors
Frédéric Rognon Faculty of Protestant Theology, University of Strasbourg,
Strasbourg, France
Corinne Rostaing Centre Max Weber (CNRS), University of Lyon, Lyon, France
Olivier Roy Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University
Institute, Florence, Italy
