Spiritual care in Swedish prisons: Practices and experiences of spiritual caregivers
This study focuses on spiritual care and how it is practised and experienced by spiritual caregivers in Swedish prisons. Its goal is to understand how prison conditions of different security classes affect spiritual care practice and what strategies spiritual caregivers use to help prisoner...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | German |
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Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, Belgrade
2025-01-01
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| Series: | Filozofija i Društvo |
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| Online Access: | https://doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0353-5738/2025/0353-57382502553B.pdf |
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| Summary: | This study focuses on spiritual care and how it is practised and experienced
by spiritual caregivers in Swedish prisons. Its goal is to understand how
prison conditions of different security classes affect spiritual care
practice and what strategies spiritual caregivers use to help prisoners
create and maintain their religiosity. The study uses five semi-structured
interviews with prison spiritual caregivers from different religious
traditions in various Swedish regions. To understand their experiences and
practices, the concept of lived religion is applied. Analysis shows that the
prison context strongly influences spiritual care practices, especially
isolation and strict rules of behaviour and interpersonal interaction.
Usually, spiritual care is provided through individual and group
conversations. Religious rituals, services, and reading of religious texts
occur to a lesser extent. However, spiritual care practices often transcend
religious boundaries and have a transformative role in inmates’ lives. |
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| ISSN: | 0353-5738 2334-8577 |