Religious Diversity in European Prisons

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1 Religious Diversity in European Prisons

2 Irene Becci Olivier Roy Editors Religious Diversity in European Prisons Challenges and Implications for Rehabilitation 1 3

3 Editors Irene Becci ISSRC-FTSR University of Lausanne Lausanne Switzerland Olivier Roy Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies European University Institute Florence Italy ISBN DOI / ISBN (ebook) Library of Congress Control Number: 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 (

4 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). v

5 Contents 1 European Research on Religious Diversity as a Factor in the Rehabilitation of Prisoners: An Introduction... 1 Irene Becci Part I The Making and Working of Multi-faith Prison Chaplaincies 2 Religious Diversity and Rehabilitation in Prisons: Management, Models and Mutations James A. Beckford 3 The Effects of Religious Diversity on Spiritual Care: Reflections from the Dutch Correction Facilities Mohamed Ajouaou and Ton Bernts 4 An Outline of the Construction of the Islamic Council for Prisons in Belgium 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 Corinne Rostaing, Céline Béraud and Claire de Galembert 6 Institutional Logic and Legal Practice: Modes of Regulation of Religious Organizations in German Prisons Sarah J. Jahn 7 Addressing Religious Differences in Italian Prisons: A Postsecular Perspective Valeria Fabretti vii

6 viii Contents 8 Religious Care in the Reinvented European Imamate Muslims and Their Guides in Italian Prisons 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 Mar Griera and Anna Clot-Garrell 10 Languages of Change in Prison: Thoughts About the Homologies Between Secular Rehabilitation, Religious Conversion and Spiritual Quest Irene Becci 11 Restorative Justice: Asserted Benefits and Existing Obstacles in France Frédéric Rognon 12 Conclusion and Perspectives Olivier Roy Index

7 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 ( ) 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. ix

8 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 xi

9 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