Chaplaincy and Spiritual Care in the Twenty-First Century: An Introduction

Wendy Cadge

ISBN 10: 1469667606 / ISBN 13: 9781469667607

Published by The University of North Carolina Press, 2022

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Chaplaincy and Spiritual Care in the Twenty-First Century: An Introduction
• Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1469667606
• ISBN 13: 9781469667607
• Binding: Paperback / softback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 599 grams

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Synopsis

Wendy Cadge and Shelly Rambo demonstrate the urgent need, highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic, to position the long history and practice of chaplaincy within the rapidly changing landscape of American religion and spirituality. This book provides a much-needed road map for training and renewing chaplains across a professional continuum that spans major sectors of American society, including hospitals, prisons, universities, the military, and nursing homes.

Written by a team of multidisciplinary experts and drawing on ongoing research at the Chaplaincy Innovation Lab at Brandeis University, Chaplaincy and Spiritual Care in the Twenty-First Century identifies three central competencies—individual, organizational, and meaning-making—that all chaplains must have, and it provides the resources for building those skills. Featuring profiles of working chaplains, the book positions intersectional issues of religious diversity, race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and other markers of identity as central to the future of chaplaincy as a profession.

About the Authors

Wendy Cadge is the Barbara Mandel Professor of Humanistic Social Sciences at Brandeis University.

Shelly Rambo is associate professor of theology at Boston University.