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Religion And Daily Life Within The Prison: An Anthropological Approach

public.project.responsible_investigator_cria: Francesca Cerbini

public.project.research_group: Livelihoods, Politics and Inequalities


public.project.keyword

Rights | Differences | Prison ethnography | Faith | Immigration | Proselytism

public.project.institution_funder

Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT)

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public.project.closed

public.project.start_date

15-04-2019

public.project.end_date

14-04-2025

public.project.reference

CEECIND/02658/2017


public.project.abstract

This research project strives to achieve a better understanding of everyday and creative components in implementing traditional and new practices of religious belonging and carceral sociability. Religion in prison represents an arena in which all the political challenges, conflicts and negotiations of a fast-moving society can be observed in miniature. The final objective is contributing to the process of integration for 'non-standard' citizens, enhancing the importance of multiculturalism