Religion in Prison: 'Equal Rites' in a Multi-Faith Society by James A. Beckford, Sophie Gilliat

By James A. Beckford, Sophie Gilliat

This is often the 1st in-depth learn of family members among the Anglican Church and different faiths within the legal carrier Chaplaincy. It examines the more and more debatable position of Anglican chaplains in facilitating the spiritual and pastoral care of the expanding inhabitants of prisoners from non-Christian backgrounds. Drawing beneficial contrasts with the placement within the usa, it exhibits how the fight for equivalent possibilities in a multi-faith society is politicizing kin one of the Church, the country and spiritual minorities in England.

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Equally important to the triangulation strategy was the attempt to ask respondents and informants from all groups to comment on the same issues. In this way, we were able to piece together a sort of Cubist picture Equal opportunities and multiculturalism in prisons 19 of what some common situations look like to actors standing in different relations to them, although it was sometimes virtually impossible to recognise that informants from different groups were actually talking about the same thing.

The argument will stress that the challenges presented by non-Christian faiths call into question some of the taken-for-granted assumptions about relations between the state and the nation. This dimension is entirely missing from current debates about 'the state we're in' (Hutton 1995) but it is actually a crucial aspect of the forces of social integration and social exclusion. Chaplaincy, chaplains, chapels and other faiths The current arrangements for providing the inmates of prisons in England and Wales with pastoral and religious care have evolved from earlier types of prison regimes in which the Christian religion was dominant and Church of England clergy were the only chaplains.

So, we made sure that we collected information from all these interested parties. And we did so by means of several conventional methods: interviews; questionnaires; analysis of official documents and background literature; on-site observation. Equally important to the triangulation strategy was the attempt to ask respondents and informants from all groups to comment on the same issues. In this way, we were able to piece together a sort of Cubist picture Equal opportunities and multiculturalism in prisons 19 of what some common situations look like to actors standing in different relations to them, although it was sometimes virtually impossible to recognise that informants from different groups were actually talking about the same thing.

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