Friday Prayers at YOI Fellside

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Friday Prayers at YOI Fellside

• Mansur Ali
• Sophie Gilliat-Ray
• Stephen Pattison

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Main research questions - SP

• Who decides to become a Muslim chaplain, and why?
• What is involved in Muslim chaplaincy practice?
• How do chaplains navigate the politics of their
  working lives?
• What is the impact of their work, within and
  beyond their institutions?

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Significance of the project - SP

• A way to examine how Muslims are developing
  practices and theologies of pastoral care
• An exploration of how a new religious profession
  develops and then becomes contested by tensions
  around authority and seniority.
• An opportunity to examine how religious practice
  associated with homes, mosques and other private
  spaces is accommodated in public institutions

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YOI Fellside - SP

• Fieldwork at the prison on 5 different occasions
  with
• Senior managers (2)
• Muslim chaplains (1 full-time 4 sessional)
• Focus groups with x 2 groups of Muslim boys (8 in
  each group)
• Observation of meetings, office work, Friday
  prayers, receptions and referrals

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Friday prayers- Islamic perspectives - MA

• The theological and social significance of Juma
  
• Weekly Eid
• Special place in Islamic cosmology
• Expiation of sins

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Friday prayers- Islamic perspectives - MA

• The theological and social significance of Juma
  
• Prayers are accepted
• Khutba as spiritual connection/teaching
• Juma as a community activity

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Publications

• 2013, Understanding Muslim Chaplaincy, Ashgate
• 2012, Muslim Chaplains working at the interface
  of public and private, in Ahmad, W. and
  Sardar, Z (eds.), in Muslims in Britain Making
  Social and Political Space, Routledge
• 2011, Being There Shadowing a British Muslim
  Hospital Chaplain, Qualitative Research, vol.
  11(5) 469-486
• 2010, Bodyworks and Fieldwork research with
  British Muslim chaplains, Culture and Religion,
  11(4) 413-432