Chaplains are America's hidden religious leaders. Required in the
military, federal prisons, and Veterans Administration Medical
Centers, chaplains also work in two-thirds of hospitals, most
hospices, many institutions of higher education, and a growing
range of other settings. The chaplains of the U.S. House and Senate
regularly engage with national leaders through public prayer and
private conversation. Chaplains have been present at national
protests, including the racial justice protests that took place
across the country in 2020. A national survey conducted in the
United States in 2019 found that 21% of the Americans public had
contact with a chaplain in the prior two years. Contact with
chaplains likely increased with the COVID-19 pandemic, which thrust
chaplains into the spotlight, as they cared for patients, family
members, and exhausted and traumatized medical staff fighting the
pandemic in real time. Wendy Cadge steps back to ask who chaplains
are, what they do across the United States, how that work is
connected to the settings where they do it, and how they have
responded to and helped to shape contemporary shifts in the
American religious landscape. She focuses on Boston as a case study
to show how chaplains have been, and remain, an important part of
institutional religious ecologies, both locally and nationally. She
has combed through the archives of major Boston institutions
including the city government, police and fire department,
hospitals, universities, rest and rehabilitation centers, the
Catholic church, and several Protestant denominations, as well as
the Boston Globe, to chart the work of chaplains historically.
Cadge also interviewed over one hundred chaplains who work in
greater Boston and shadowed them whenever possible, going on board
container ships, walking through homeless shelters, and attending
religious services at local prisons. The result is a rich study of
a little-noticed but essential group of religious leaders.
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