1st Edition
Faith, Ideology and Fear Muslim Identities Within and Beyond Prisons
By Gabriele Marranci
Copyright 2009
192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
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Based on four years anthropological research within prisons and Muslim communities in the UK, this book offers a unique discussion of the relationship between the experience of prison among Muslims and the formation of religious identity. Gabriele Marranci thoroughly examines Muslim religious life in prison, the work of Muslim chaplains and imams (and the overall impact that they have on Muslim... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Muslims, Islam and Crime3. Excluded and Borderline Lives: Crime and Existential Fear 4. Bars, Fluorescent Lights and Alienation: ‘The Torment of the Grave' 5. Rediscovering Islam in Prison: between Wonder and Cognitive Opening 6. The Shahadah of Freedom: from Doctrinal to Imagistic modes of Islam7. From Caged Bodies to Caged Souls: the dystopian experience of leaving prison 8. Conclusion
Biography
Gabriele Marranci
