Schneuwly Purdie, M 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4769-3150, Irfan, L ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9977-5986, Quraishi, MM ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6322-6256 and Wilkinson, M ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2095-1853
2021,
'Living Islam in prison : how gender affects the religious experiences of female and male offenders'
, Religions, 12 (5)
, e298.
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Abstract
Addressing a significant gap in the knowledge of female Muslim prisoners’ religiosity, this paper describes and explains the gendered impact of incarceration on the religiosity of Muslim female and male offenders. Based on quantitative and qualitative data collected in ten prisons, including a male and female prison in England and a male and female prison in Switzerland, the authors show that prison tends to intensify the religiosity of Muslim men and reduce the religiosity of Muslim women. In explanation of this, the authors argue that, at the individual level, the feelings of guilt at the absence of family, the absence of high-status religious forms of gender and feelings of trauma and victimhood impact negatively on Muslim female offenders’ religiosity. At the institutional level, female Muslim prisoners, being a small minority, do not mobilise a powerful shared religious identity and chaplaincy provision—including provision of basic religious services—is patchier for Muslim women than it is for men and often does not take into account the specific needs of female prisoners.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Contributors: | Mills Daniel, D (Editor) |
| Additional Information: | ** From MDPI via Jisc Publications Router ** Licence for this article: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ **Journal IDs: eissn 2077-1444 **History: published 23-04-2021; accepted 14-04-2021 |
| Schools: | Schools > School of Health and Society |
| Journal or Publication Title: | Religions |
| Publisher: | MDPI |
| ISSN: | 2077-1444 |
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| Funders: | The Dawes Trust |
| SWORD Depositor: | Publications Router |
| Depositing User: | Publications Router |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Apr 2021 07:30 |
| Last Modified: | 16 Feb 2022 07:05 |
| URI: | https://usir.salford.ac.uk/id/eprint/60114 |
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