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RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY IN EUROPEAN PRISONS GEBUNDEN

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 rehabilitation  particularly
for inmates with coping with stress  mental health and substance abuse issues. In the past  the
historical figure of the prison chaplain operated primarily in a Christian context  following
primarily a Christian model. Increasingly  prison populations (inmates as well as employees)
display diversity in their ethnic  cultural  religious and geographic backgrounds. As public
institutions  prisons are compelled to uphold the human rights of their inmates  including
religious freedom. Prisons face challenges in approaching religious plurality and secularism 
and maintaining prisoners' legal rights to religious freedom. The contributions to this work
present case studies that examine how prisons throughout Europe have approached challenges of
religious diversity. Featuring contributions from the UK  France  Italy  Germany  Switzerland 
The Netherlands  Belgium and Spain  this interdisciplinary volume includes contributions from
social and political scientists  religion scholars and philosophers examining the role of
religion and religious diversity in prison rehabilitation. It will be of interest to
researchers in Criminology and Criminal Justice  Social and Political Science  Human Rights 
Public Policy  and Religious Studies.

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