The Story of (De)Secularization of Prison World in the Post-Communist Country? Religion And Prisons in The Czech Republic

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The Story of (De)Secularization of Prison World in the Post-Communist Country? Religion And Prisons in The Czech Republic

Original language description

Authors will focus in their presentation on the process of ambivalent post-revolutionary desecularization of the Czech prison system and discuss pastoral care provided in Czech prisons. After the fall of Communism, professionalisation and institutionalisation of Czech Prison Clerical Service has begun and religion has its own role and place behind bars of Czech prisons again, but even in these days chaplains have to face different challenges when providing pastoral care to inmates. Their work in prisons is questioned by some groups of staff members (especially prison guards), there is a growing pressure to prove its efficiency, chaplains experience lack of support from their churches and have to balance between different expectations from prison management, inmates, churches and other staff members. On the other side, there is a remarkable change of their position when chaplains became a formal part of prison organisation as staff members, also numbers of chaplains as employees of prisons are continuously rising. Nor this institutional change is without consequence in the form of participation of prison chaplains in decision making processes which has an impact on their relationships with inmates. Authors will present it using examples of (non)suppression of religious freedoms during imprisonment. Presented findings are based on previous qualitative research projects realised by authors within the Czech prison system.

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Type

O - Miscellaneous

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OECD FORD branch

50401 - Sociology

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů