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This overview of Islam and prison provides a thorough understanding of Muslim prisoners' experiences in Britain and Europe. It explores issues including conversion to Islam, rehabilitation and the extent to which prisons foster extremism, and gives practitioners and policy-makers ideas for better engagement and achieving positive outcomes.

Are you a prison officer who feels nervous about dealing with Muslims on the wings? Are you a prison chaplain who wants to know how your chaplaincy affects the lives of prisoners? Are you a policymaker who needs a robust base of evidence for Islam in prison? Are you an academic or a journalist seeking ground-breaking social science in a contentious field? Based on original evidence from 279 Muslim prisoners and 79 prison officers, we explore how Muslims come to be incarcerated, how the practice of Islam affects prison life and rehabilitation, the types of Islam and the effects of Islamic conversion in prison and the professional practice of officers and chaplains. We also investigate the common belief that incarceration fosters Islamist extremism and suggest improvements to faith provision and rehabilitative opportunities for Muslim prisoners.

1. Introduction : religion and spirituality in the me-society -- 2. A theory of religious-secular competition -- 3. Four forms of (un)belief -- 4. Identity and social structure -- 5. Belief, knowledge, experience, action -- 6. Values and change of values -- 7. Major churches, Evangelical churches and alternative-spiritual suppliers -- 8. The perception and evaluation of religion(s) -- 9. The change in religiosity, spirituality and secularity -- 10. Conclusion : (un)believing in modern society.

Religiosität und Spiritualität zeigen sich in der Schweiz – so die These dieser Studie – in vier grossen Milieus: 'Institutionelle' sind traditionell und freikirchlich christlich, 'Alternative' setzen auf Esoterik und spirituelle Heilung, 'Säkulare' sind indifferent oder religionsfeindlich. Die grosse Mehrheit der Bevölkerung aber gehört den 'Distanzierten' an. Ihnen ist Religion nur in bestimmten Situationen wichtig; ihre religiösen und spirituellen Überzeugungen sind oft diffus. Anhand repräsentativer Umfragen und Tiefeninterviews zeigen die Autorinnen und Autoren, wie sich diese Milieus innerhalb der letzten fünf Jahrzehnte aufgrund von Wertwandel und sozialen Trends tiefgreifend verändert haben.