This essay is about the religious care in 19th century prisons in Sweden from a prison priest’s perspective. The spectacle of the study is Varberg former penal labour penitentiary, today fortress, and the main character is Hampus Franz August Lönegren. This case study is focused from a micro-historical perspective on the period 1867-1870 when Lönegren worked as a prison priest, with the goal to reverse the condemned prisoners from a sinful life to a Christian and moral life. The material used for the study consists of published and unpublished sources written by Lönegren himself and his work instructions. The survey aims to find out how he did his work, if he made local initiatives, which values he cared about and if he succeeded to discipline and/or civilize any prisoner through religious conversion. Discipline and civilizing are based on Michel Foucault and Norbert Elias respective theories: Discipline as the exercise of power and the Civilizing process. The results show that Lönegren followed the guidelines of his superiors as well as making several local initiatives. Values such as religion and friendship are promoted and a few prisoners become reversed and disciplined to civilized Christians, until their prison time was due, after which most of them relapsed to their earlier criminal life.

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Our group has three different kinds of people that are related to the Church, those who look for the Church but does not join any religious practice because they are arriving, those who join the Church for religious practice, and those who are religious caregiver. We presented for the participants an Interactive Narrative, a pre-conceived story by the researcher presenting the religious care theme. As the story is unfinished, it invites the participants to create and imagine the end that is understood as expression of the group imaginary and interpreted by the researcher in dialogue with his research group, inspired by Psychoanalysis, in order to find fields underlying affective- emotional senses. The material was discussed with specified theory, giving emphasis to Winnicott?s propositions about care, transitional space and the religion?s role. The result leads to motivations such as: counseling needs, spiritual comfort and support of the religious community in times of personal and family needs (diseases, drug addiction, death, matrimonial conflicts), God?s gratitude for received benefits, spirituality development, Sacramental needs, and the search for life meaning. Underlying emotional issues toward the search for religious care we found caregivers being demanded more than they are prepared to, who recognize their limitation and are being pushed to deal with emotional and psychological issues that demands professional and specialized care. The participants claim a relation between religion and psychology and suggest the Church to offer psychological care for the congregation. We expect that the knowledge produced by this paper benefits everyone involved in religious care, religious institutions or those who seek them - expanding the understanding of the role that religion has in the search for the meaning of human experience. / A busca pelo sagrado costuma se intensificar em per?odos marcados por grandes transforma??es e crises desencadeadoras de sentimentos de medo e inseguran?a, como ? o caso da p?smodernidade que, regida pela l?gica econ?mica e pela fluidez das rela??es pessoais, produz o individualismo e o consequente desamparo que hoje experimentamos. Baseando-nos no pressuposto de que as religi?es se prop?em ocupar um lugar significativo de suporte ?s vulnerabilidades humanas, propusemos a investiga??o do imagin?rio coletivo de um grupo de pessoas que buscam aux?lio na Igreja Cat?lica, mas ainda n?o se vincularam a ela; de um segundo grupo j? vinculado ?s pr?ticas religiosas, bem como de um terceiro grupo de cuidadores religiosos, em termos das motiva??es que imaginam orientar essa busca. Apresentamos aos participantes uma Narrativa Interativa, pr?-elaborada pelo pesquisador, versando sobre o tema do cuidado religioso. Uma vez que a narrativa se encontra inacabada, cada participante foi convidado a participar de sua constru??o, ampliando-a imaginativamente. As narrativas dos participantes foram tomadas como express?o daquele coletivo e interpretadas pelo pesquisador na interlocu??o com seu grupo de pesquisa, ? luz da Psican?lise, no intuito de levantar campos de sentidos afetivo-emocionais subjacentes ? sua elabora??o. Os resultados foram articulados teoricamente com literatura espec?fica, dando-se ?nfase ?s proposi??es winnicottianas de cuidado, espa?o transicional e o lugar que a religi?o a? pode ocupar. Os resultados apontaram para motiva??es variadas, tais como: necessidade de aconselhamento, conforto espiritual e amparo da comunidade religiosa em momentos de dificuldades pessoais e familiares (doen?as, drogadi??o, morte, desaven?as conjugais), gratid?o a Deus por benef?cios recebidos, cultivo da espiritualidade, necessidades sacramentais, bem como a atribui??o de sentido ? vida. Entreveem-se nas quest?es emocionais subjacentes ? busca de cuidado religioso exig?ncias que excedem o preparo dos cuidadores, que reconhecem n?o darem conta de uma demanda n?o raras vezes marcadas por fortes elementos emocionais e psicol?gicos, que exigem atendimento especializado. Os participantes postulam uma maior inter-rela??o da religi?o com a psicologia, e sugerem que servi?os especializados de psicologia sejam disponibilizados pelas igrejas aos seus fi?is. Esperamos que a produ??o desse conhecimento beneficie a todos os envolvidos no cuidado religioso - sejam as institui??es religiosas ou aqueles que as buscam - ampliando a compreens?o do lugar que a religi?o ocupa na busca de sentido para a experi?ncia humana.

The Diploma Thesis deals with the description of the facts and activities related to the proclamation of the Gospel in the prison environment. It refers to the historical development of penitentiary from the prison early days to the present time. It describes the ways to provide spiritual service in recent prison environment, the activities of the associations of Prison Religious Care (PRC) and Prison Religious Service (PRS). It provides the overview of mutual relationships among these orga-nisations and the Prison (Penitentiary) Service of the Czech Republic, and at the same time it gives legal standards regulating the provision of spiritual services on the territory of the Czech Republic. It provides a complete view of activities of a prison chaplain and introduces his competences to the reader. The research section is focused on findings what kinds of the most serious current problems accompanies the process of evangelization in current Czech prison environment and which solutions of existing problems are suggested by involved experts.