Imprisoned religion : transformations of religion during and after imprisonment in Eastern Germany / Irene Becci.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Becci, Irene.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prisoners--Religious life--Germany.

Prisoners.

Imprisonment--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Imprisonment.

Imprisonment--Religious aspects.

Psychology, Religious.

Imprisonment--Germany.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (210 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book explores the profound transformations that prisons and offender rehabilitation programmes in Eastern Germany have undergone with respect to religion. Drawing on participant observation and interviews of inmates, ex-prisoners, chaplains and prison visitors, this book connects the institutional to individual: focusing on the religious changes individuals experience when they are imprisoned and released. Becci also explores the difficulties faced by released people in keeping their religious life alive under the harsh conditions of social stigma in a highly secular outside society.

Contents:

Modern prisons in Eastern Germany: between secular and Christian projects

Religion in post-socialist prisons and release programmes

Transformations of religion during and after imprisonment

Inmates and ex-inmates' relations to religion

Offenders, ex-offenders and new religious belongings in liminality

Conclusion: general conclusion in a comparative perspective.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-315-58801-3

1-317-11830-8

1-317-11829-4

1-283-70586-9

1-4094-1162-1

9781315588018

OCLC:

815382875