A01=Irene Becci
Author_Irene Becci
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Baptist Community
Baptist Congregation
berlin
care
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chaplain
chaplaincies
chaplaincy research
east
East German Society
East Germans
eastern
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GDR Authority
GDR Citizen
GDR Era
GDR Government
GDR Past
GDR State
germany
Nihil Obstat
Offender Rehabilitation
penal institution studies
post-socialist societies
Prenzlauer Berg Districts
Prison Chaplaincy
Prison Chaplains
qualitative fieldwork
religion and prisoner rehabilitation
Religious Bricolage
religious coping mechanisms
Religious Service
SED
social reintegration challenges
Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands
spiritual
Spiritual Care
verlag
Vice Versa
West German
West Germany
westdeutscher
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781409411611
- Weight: 544g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Nov 2012
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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. Including comparative studies from Italy and Switzerland, Becci reveals that despite diverse local, historical, denominational, political and social contexts the transformation patterns of individuals' relationship to religion, and their use of religious resources, are strongly shaped by the total character of prisons. 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.
Irene Becci studied sociology and anthropology in Switzerland, Italy and the USA. She started to work on religion in prison for her doctoral dissertation and shifted in her post-doctoral research the focus on religion after prison in Eastern Germany. Since 2012 she has held, as an assistant professor, the chair of Emerging Religions and New Spiritualities at the University of Lausanne (CH).
