Muslimische Seelsorge in Bundesasylzentren : Evaluation des Pilotprojekts zuhanden des Staatssekretariats für Migration

Schmid, Hansjörg; Sheikhzadegan, Amir; Zurbuchen, Aude

doi:10.51363/unifr.szigs.2022.006

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“…On the basis of many years of interreligious dialogue, the churches also encouraged introducing Muslim chaplaincy and acted as intermediaries, due to their long experience in collaborating with the State Secretariat of Migration. Before introducing Muslim chaplaincy permanently, the State Secretariat of Migration commissioned an evaluation of this service in federal asylum centres 48 .…”

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Helping Refugees Build a Home

Schmid

2023

Ethica

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This study focuses on the question of how Muslim chaplains can, through their interventions, exert an influence on the situation of refugees, characterised by vulnerability and loss of home. Based on definitions in social work and anthropology studies, home can be conceptualised as a key anthropological need, comprised of spatial, temporal, relational and spiritual dimensions. Referring to an empirical study on asylum chaplaincy in Switzerland, this study analyses how five Muslim chaplains accompany refugees, how their styles of chaplaincy differ in practice and what effects their interventions have. These empirical results are then brought into conversation with a theoretical framework, to explore the connections between counselling and vulnerability. While it could be argued that referring to the vulnerable situation of refugees reinforces an image of passivity, the co-construction of a home represents a collaborative effort and empowers refugees by mobilising both forces and resources. Chaplains, in particular, can contribute to the relational and spiritual dimensions of home. For refugees, articulating their religious concerns and working together with Muslim chaplains, means they can address the limits of the existing asylum system and demand recognition of cultural diversity.

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Helping Refugees Build a Home

Schmid

2023

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“…Five Muslim chaplains were employed on a part-time basis (sharing an employment level of a total of 230%). The evaluation of this project showed a very high appreciation of the Muslim chaplains on the part of the staff of the BAZ, the Christian chaplains, and the affected applicants (Schmid et al 2022). This, in turn, led to the SEM's decision in January 2023 to definitively introduce Muslim asylum chaplaincy in the BAZ in Switzerland.…”

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Diaconia and Interreligious Cooperation in Switzerland

Sigrist

2023

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One of the most important areas of tension for diaconia in the Western European, German-speaking context is the demands of an interreligious and plural society. The social challenges to churches with their congregations and parishes, diaconal organizations, and the state with its social institutions are complex. This article deals with religious layers of social transformations that shape helping actions. It focuses on innovative projects in the field of spiritual care and diaconia that created new spaces of diaconal practice in the last ten years in the Canton of Zurich and Switzerland. Specifically, the process of accrediting the first imam at the University Hospital in Zurich, the employment of chaplains of Muslim and Jewish faith in the Swiss Army, and the training of Muslim chaplains in the Canton of Zurich are presented. On the one hand, the aim is to adequately define the relationship between diaconia and spiritual care in a pluralistic society. On the other hand, interreligious cooperation is analyzed as a process of intercultural communication and transcultural practice. From this, theses for prospective, innovative, and well-founded interreligious cooperation in diaconia can be gained, which can be further developed and discussed in other European and global contexts.

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Muslimische Seelsorge in Bundesasylzentren : Evaluation des Pilotprojekts zuhanden des Staatssekretariats für Migration

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Helping Refugees Build a Home

Helping Refugees Build a Home

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