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

Wendy Cadge, Shelly Rambo

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

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

Wendy Cadge, Shelly Rambo

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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 Author

Wendy Cadge is the Barbara Mandel Professor of Humanistic Social Sciences at Brandeis University. Shelly Rambo is associate professor of theology at Boston University.

Critical Reviews

"This wonderful book provides perhaps the clearest picture yet of what it means to be a chaplain in the twenty-first century, how to be a chaplain, and why chaplaincy deserves a central place among the professions of caregiving. It should be essential reading for not only chaplains in training and in practice but any caregiver committed to healing and wholeness."--Kenneth Pargament, author of Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapy: Understanding and Addressing the Sacred

"We are living in harrowing times. Increasingly, chaplains and spiritual care practitioners serve a first-responder role for those in crisis. This book is a must-read for those invested in understanding the nuances, strengths, and challenges facing this burgeoning ecosystem of care, including the wise, generous people who constitute it."--Rev. Jennifer Bailey, author of To My Beloveds: Letters on Faith, Race, Loss and Radical Hope and founder and executive director of Faith Matters Network

"What does a chaplain do? Seems a simple question, but the answer is far from it. Thanks to the careful and diligent work of Wendy Cadge, Shelly Rambo, and the volume contributors, Chaplaincy and Spiritual Care in the Twenty-First Century offers long-needed and comprehensive insight into this valuable vocation."--Rear Admiral Margaret Grun Kibben, chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives

Publishing Information

Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Pub date: 2022-06-14
Length: 336 pages

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