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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.
While the modern science of medicine often seems nothing short of
miraculous, religion still plays an important role in the past and
present of many hospitals. When three-quarters of Americans believe
that God can cure people who have been given little or no chance of
survival by their doctors, how do today's technologically
sophisticated health care organizations address spirituality and
faith? Through a combination of interviews with nurses, doctors,
and chaplains across the United States and close observation of
their daily routines, Wendy Cadge takes readers inside major
academic medical institutions to explore how today's doctors and
hospitals address prayer and other forms of religion and
spirituality. From chapels to intensive care units to the morgue,
hospital caregivers speak directly in these pages about how
religion is part of their daily work in visible and invisible ways.
In Paging God: Religion in the Halls of Medicine, Cadge shifts
attention away from the ongoing controversy about whether faith and
spirituality should play a role in health care and back to the many
ways that these powerful forces already function in healthcare
today.
This edited collection provides an in-depth ethnographic study of
faith-based development organizations in the United States, shining
a much needed critical light onto these organizations and their
role in the United States by exploring the varied ways that
faith-based organizations attempt to mend the fissures and mitigate
the effects of neoliberal capitalism, poverty, and the social
service sector on the poor and powerless. In doing so, Not by Faith
Alone generates provocative and sophisticated analyses-grounded in
empirical case studies-of such topics as the meaning of
"faith-based" development, evaluations of faith-based versus
secular approaches, the influence of faith-orientation on program
formulation and delivery, and examinations of faith-based
organizations' impacts on structural inequality and poverty
alleviation. Taken together, the chapters in this volume
demonstrate the vital importance of ethnography for understanding
the particular role of faith-based agencies in development. The
contributors argue for an understanding of faith-based development
that moves beyond either dismissing or uncritically supporting
faith-based initiatives. Instead, contributors demonstrate the
importance of grounded analysis of the specific discourses,
practices, and beliefs that imbue faith-based development with such
power and reveal both the promise and the limitations of this
particular vehicle of service delivery.
The thirteen essays in this volume offer a challenge to
conventional scholarly approaches to the sociology of religion.
They urge readers to look beyond congregational settings, beyond
the United States, and to religions other than Christianity, and
encourage critical engagement with religion's complex social
consequences. By expanding conceptual categories, the essays reveal
how aspects of the religious have always been part of allegedly
non-religious spaces and show how, by attending to these
intellectual blindspots, we can understand aspects of identity,
modernity, and institutional life that have long been obscured.
Religion on the Edge addresses a number of critical questions: What
is revealed about the self, pluralism, or modernity when we look
outside the U.S. or outside Christian settings? What do we learn
about how and where the religious is actually at work and what its
role is when we unpack the assumptions about it embedded in the
categories we use? Religion on the Edge offers groundbreaking new
methodologies and models, bringing to light conceptual lacunae,
re-centering what is unsettled by their use, and inviting a
significant reordering of long-accepted political and economic
hierarchies. The book shows how social scientists across the
disciplines can engage with the sociology of religion. By
challenging many of its long-standing empirical and analytic
tendencies, the contributors to this volume show how their work
informs and is informed by debates in other fields and the
analytical purchase gained by bringing these many conversations
together. Religion on the Edge will be a crucial resource for any
scholar seeking to understand our post-modern, post-secular world.
Theravada is one of the three main branches of Buddhism. In Asia it
is practiced widely in Thailand, Laos, Burma, Sri Lanka, and
Cambodia. This fascinating ethnography opens a window onto two
communities of Theravada Buddhists in contemporary America: one
outside Philadelphia that is composed largely of Thai immigrants
and one outside Boston that consists mainly of white converts.
Wendy Cadge first provides a historical overview of Theravada
Buddhism and considers its specific origins here in the United
States. She then brings her findings to bear on issues of personal
identity, immigration, cultural assimilation, and the nature of
religion in everyday life. Her work is the first systematic
comparison of the ways in which immigrant and convert Buddhists
understand, practice, and adapt the Buddhist tradition in America.
The men and women whom Cadge meets and observes speak directly to
us in this work, both in their personal testimonials and as they
meditate, pray, and practice Buddhism.
Creative and insightful, "Heartwood" will be of enormous value to
sociologists of religion and anyone wishing to understand the rise
of Buddhism in the Western world.
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. The book, which features profiles of working
chaplains, 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.
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. The book, which features profiles of working
chaplains, 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.
This edited collection provides an in-depth ethnographic study of
faith-based development organizations in the United States, shining
a much needed critical light onto these organizations and their
role in the United States by exploring the varied ways that
faith-based organizations attempt to mend the fissures and mitigate
the effects of neoliberal capitalism, poverty, and the social
service sector on the poor and powerless. In doing so, Not by Faith
Alone generates provocative and sophisticated analyses-grounded in
empirical case studies-of such topics as the meaning of
"faith-based" development, evaluations of faith-based versus
secular approaches, the influence of faith-orientation on program
formulation and delivery, and examinations of faith-based
organizations' impacts on structural inequality and poverty
alleviation. Taken together, the chapters in this volume
demonstrate the vital importance of ethnography for understanding
the particular role of faith-based agencies in development. The
contributors argue for an understanding of faith-based development
that moves beyond either dismissing or uncritically supporting
faith-based initiatives. Instead, contributors demonstrate the
importance of grounded analysis of the specific discourses,
practices, and beliefs that imbue faith-based development with such
power and reveal both the promise and the limitations of this
particular vehicle of service delivery.
While the modern science of medicine often seems nothing short of
miraculous, religion still plays an important role in the past and
present of many hospitals. When three-quarters of Americans believe
that God can cure people who have been given little or no chance of
survival by their doctors, how do today's technologically
sophisticated health care organizations address spirituality and
faith? Through a combination of interviews with nurses, doctors,
and chaplains across the United States and close observation of
their daily routines, Wendy Cadge takes readers inside major
academic medical institutions to explore how today's doctors and
hospitals address prayer and other forms of religion and
spirituality. From chapels to intensive care units to the morgue,
hospital caregivers speak directly in these pages about how
religion is part of their daily work in visible and invisible ways.
In Paging God: Religion in the Halls of Medicine, Cadge shifts
attention away from the ongoing controversy about whether faith and
spirituality should play a role in health care and back to the many
ways that these powerful forces already function in healthcare
today.
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