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Faith, Ideology and Fear: Muslim Identities Within and Beyond Prisons
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 prisoners), providing an analysis of the current prison policies aiming to prevent radicalisation, and discusses the counterproductive results of an increasing young Muslim presence in prisons, as well as the reaction of the Muslim communities to this increase. Marranci suggests that the prison environment, and increasing restrictions therein, are linked to the fear of radicalization, and are facilitating identity processes in which Islam turns into an ideology. This important study goes on to make a thorough examination of the lives of former Muslim prisoners, showing how they are particularly vulnerable to extremists' recruitment, and explaining the dynamics which have led, in certain cases, to their recommitting offences, or embarking on a path of radicalization.
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Faith, Ideology and Fear: Muslim Identities Within and Beyond Prisons
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 prisoners), providing an analysis of the current prison policies aiming to prevent radicalisation, and discusses the counterproductive results of an increasing young Muslim presence in prisons, as well as the reaction of the Muslim communities to this increase. Marranci suggests that the prison environment, and increasing restrictions therein, are linked to the fear of radicalization, and are facilitating identity processes in which Islam turns into an ideology. This important study goes on to make a thorough examination of the lives of former Muslim prisoners, showing how they are particularly vulnerable to extremists' recruitment, and explaining the dynamics which have led, in certain cases, to their recommitting offences, or embarking on a path of radicalization.
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Faith, Ideology and Fear: Muslim Identities Within and Beyond Prisons

Faith, Ideology and Fear: Muslim Identities Within and Beyond Prisons

by Gabriele Marranci
Faith, Ideology and Fear: Muslim Identities Within and Beyond Prisons
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Faith, Ideology and Fear: Muslim Identities Within and Beyond Prisons

Faith, Ideology and Fear: Muslim Identities Within and Beyond Prisons

by Gabriele Marranci

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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 prisoners), providing an analysis of the current prison policies aiming to prevent radicalisation, and discusses the counterproductive results of an increasing young Muslim presence in prisons, as well as the reaction of the Muslim communities to this increase. Marranci suggests that the prison environment, and increasing restrictions therein, are linked to the fear of radicalization, and are facilitating identity processes in which Islam turns into an ideology. This important study goes on to make a thorough examination of the lives of former Muslim prisoners, showing how they are particularly vulnerable to extremists' recruitment, and explaining the dynamics which have led, in certain cases, to their recommitting offences, or embarking on a path of radicalization.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781441162359
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 10/20/2011
Series: Continuum Religious Studies
Pages: 192
Product dimensions: 6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Gabriele Marranci is an Associate Professor and Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. He is the founding editor of the journal Contemporary Islam: Dynamics of Muslim Life, and the book series (with Prof. Bryan Turner) Muslims in Global Societies, and also author of Jihad Beyond Islam, The Anthropology of Islam and Understanding Muslim Identity, Rethinking Fundamentalism.

Table of Contents

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
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