What is at stake when Muslims join the ranks? An international comparison of military chaplaincy

Michalowski, Ines

doi:10.1080/09637494.2015.1021189

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“…Rather, both are mediated through a field of actors who combine and reshape their environment wherever spaces of negotiation emerge. Field-theoretical approaches to the governance of religious diversity taking into account power distribution and interests in a field facing permanent tension and negotiation of the rules of the game might in this perspective ultimately contribute to a better understanding of change in the governance of religion (Koenig, 2015; Michalowski, 2015; Thomas, 2004). …”

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Surveillance and prayer – comparing Muslim prison chaplaincy in Germany’s federal states

Harms-Dalibon

2017

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Moving beyond approaches that emphasise the influence of national ideologies and transnational frameworks on the governance of religious diversity in Western Europe, recent scholarship has underlined the importance of analysing the impact of concrete institutional settings such as hospitals, schools and prisons on the public incorporation of religious minorities. Building on this approach, the present article analyses the emergence of Muslim prison chaplaincies in three German federal states by focussing on how framing strategies of state- and religious actors accommodate the national state-church framework and prison-related norms. The article thus shows how national ideologies of diversity regulation and prison norms are mutually shaped in the process of the local governance of Islam. The comparative perspective of the article highlights subnational variations regarding actor constellations and strategies and thereby emphasises a multidimensional process of negotiating the national regime of diversity governance.

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Surveillance and prayer – comparing Muslim prison chaplaincy in Germany’s federal states

Harms-Dalibon

2017

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“…. Not many privileges can be gained; there is no cen tral 'negotiation table' that would require some form of public recognition of religions and of structured selective cooperation (see Michalowski 2014 for the United States "where the distribution of chaplaincy is organized along a relatively easy markedbased system that does not depend on the European institutionalization of faithspecific military chaplaincies"). authentic community centres with different kinds of educational and social services, fellowship and recreational activities, and taskspecific asso ciational networks" (Casanova 2007: 25).…”

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D’Amato²

2016

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“…Prayers open each session of Congress in the United States despite the formal institutional separation of church and state, for example, and several thousand federally paid chaplains serve people in federal prisons, the military, and veterans hospitals (Cadge, Clendenen, and Olson ; Sullivan ). In Europe, public schools in many countries offer religious education (Rothgangel, Jackson, and Jäggle :7–9) and all public institutions, including prisons, the military, and state‐run hospitals, must establish regulations for groups with special claims on diet, religious apparel, or prayer breaks (Beckford and Gilliat ; Michalowski ).…”

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“…This symposium proposes points of analytical comparison that might facilitate a systematic comparison of public institutions across several countries. With the inclusion of an increasing number of cases, such a comparative framework can help to identify the relevance of local‐level orders and national‐level arrangements of state‐church relation as well as of institution‐specific opportunity structures for religion and religious diversity (Michalowski ). In this symposium, we are approaching those public institutions marked by some degree of closure: hospitals, prisons, and the military.…”

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“…Studies of religion and spirituality in the military are equally divided by country as well as by area of focus; there are only a few cross‐national comparisons (Hassner ; Michalowski ; Soeters and van der Meulen ). In the U.S. context, a growing body of research describes the work of military chaplains and multiple memoirs show how their work is shaped by shifting policies and changing religious demographics (Autry ; Benimoff ; Bergen ; Cook ; Hansen ; Whitt ).…”

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Religion in Public Institutions: Comparative Perspectives from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Europe

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Griera²,

Lucken

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Scientific Study of Religion

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Much is known historically about the formal place for religion and spirituality in various countries. Less is known sociologically about the actual ways religion and spirituality are present in public institutions or about the conceptual and methodological assumptions that underlie how scholars approach the study of religion within public institutions. We conceive of public institutions broadly as those institutions that need to follow state regulations, are publicly accountable, and are supported (totally or partially) with state funds. We aim in this symposium to begin to develop a comparative analytical framework for analyzing ways religion and spirituality shape and are shaped by public institutions across three distinct sectors—hospitals, the military, and prisons—in Europe, the United Kingdom, and the United States. We outline three questions—the descriptive, the analytic, and the methodological—and suggest points of analytic comparison that might facilitate a systematic comparison of public institutions across several countries.

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What is at stake when Muslims join the ranks? An international comparison of military chaplaincy

Cited by 22 publications

References 25 publications

Surveillance and prayer – comparing Muslim prison chaplaincy in Germany’s federal states

Surveillance and prayer – comparing Muslim prison chaplaincy in Germany’s federal states

Multireligious Society

Religion in Public Institutions: Comparative Perspectives from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Europe

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