College University Chaplaincy In The 21st Century

Author : Dr. Lucy A. Forster-Smith
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1594735611
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book College & University Chaplaincy in the 21st Century written by Dr. Lucy A. Forster-Smith and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2013-07-13 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive resource for chaplains and campus ministers of all faith traditions—a vital resource for ministry in multifaith and secular contexts. Caregiver, educator, trustee of institutional traditions, public religious voice and, occasionally, prophet: in an increasingly multifaith, multicultural, global world, the role of the college or university chaplain has changed. This book examines experiences and perspectives that arise at the intersection of religious practice, distinct campus culture, student counseling and the secular context of the modern academic institution. Contributors who are actively engaged in the work of college chaplaincy—from educational institutions as diverse as Stanford University, Williams College, Jesuit-affiliated Creighton University and Louisiana's historically black Dillard University, and from many faith traditions—explore the practice, theology and joys of campus ministry and the chaplain's calling to support, challenge, stir the imagination of and address this generation’s urgent longing for connection and meaning. CONTRIBUTORS: Rabbi Rena S. Blumenthal, Vassar College • Rev. Gail E. Bowman, Dillard University • Rev. Janet M. Cooper Nelson, Brown University • Rev. Dr. Lucy A. Forster-Smith, Macalester College • Rev. Dr. Susan Henry-Crowe, Emory University • Rev. K. P. Hong, Macalester College • Rev. Dr. Charles Lattimore Howard, University of Pennsylvania • Rabbi Patricia Karlin-Neumann, Stanford University • Sharon M. K. Kugler, Yale University • Rev. Dr. Linda J. Morgan-Clement, The College of Wooster • Rev. Dr. J. Diane Mowrey, Queens University of Charlotte • Fr. Roc O’Connor, SJ, Creighton University • Rev. Ian B. Oliver,Yale University • Fr. Daniel Reim, SJ, University of Michigan—Ann Arbor • Rev. Dr. Paul H. W. Rohde, Augustana College • Rev. Deanna L. Shorb, Grinnell College • Rev. Dr. Richard E. Spalding, Williams College • Rev. Dr. Samuel H. Speers, Vassar College • Sohaib N. Sultan, Princeton University

Author : Lucy A. Forster-Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781459674295
Total Pages : 698 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book College and University Chaplaincy in the 21st Century written by Lucy A. Forster-Smith and published by . This book was released on 2013-12-11 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributors who are actively engaged in the work of college chaplaincy explore the many aspects of campus ministry: navigating the secular academy as religious professionals, supporting students' increasingly hyphenated religious identities, and more.

Author : Lucy A. Forster-Smith
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 162564132X
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crossing Thresholds written by Lucy A. Forster-Smith and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2015-08-12 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With candor, passion, and deep love for her work, Lucy Forster-Smith takes us across the threshold as a chaplain on a college campus. This vocational narrative braids the story of her faith journey that began on a porch when she was a four-year-old, was shaken by a sexual assault as a seminarian, and through healing and grace brought her to claim a call to ministry with students. With delightful humor and an infectious love for her work, Forster-Smith invites the reader into her world. Crossing Thresholds is a theological narrative, weaving together the story of faith in the context of the professional life of a college chaplain. Lighting on the power of spiritual awakening at a college, once named as the number one institution of higher education that "ignored God on a regular basis," Forster-Smith jars loose the assumptions about the avowedly secular campus. Her journey of healing and grace illuminates and guides to cross the threshold of the campus's soul.

Author : Wendy Cadge
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469667614
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chaplaincy and Spiritual Care in the Twenty-First Century written by Wendy Cadge and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Jeffrey LaBelle
Publisher : Paulist Press
ISBN 13 : 1893757897
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catholic Colleges in the 21st Century written by Jeffrey LaBelle and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the contemporary social and pastoral context of Catholic colleges and universities in the United States, from the perspective of the campus minister of the twenty-first century

Author : Christopher Swift
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131712118X
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hospital Chaplaincy in the Twenty-first Century written by Christopher Swift and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-22 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issues of faith and spirituality have been resurgent in the UK since the opening of the twenty-first century. This book charts the impact of shifting attitudes towards spirituality through the experiences of health care chaplains. Rooted in a new and challenging interpretation of the chaplain's work in the past, the book moves on to describe a current crisis in the nature of spiritual care. Using the tools of practical theology to analyze these experiences, fundamental problems are identified for chaplains as they work within the culture of 'evidence based practice'. As the National Health Service struggles to balance its books in the face of national economic uncertainty, chaplains will continue to come under increasing levels of scrutiny. Some chaplains have faced the prospect of redundancy or cuts to their budgets, while a growing number of NHS Trusts no longer offer chaplaincy to patients out of hours. In this context the nature of chaplaincy itself has come into question, and rival models of the profession have emerged. Is chaplaincy a new and distinct profession within health care, based on evidence and available to all? Or is it State-funded religious activity, theoretically open to all but in practice utilized chiefly by the faithful few? In responding to these questions the book concludes with a vision of how chaplaincy can both maintain its integrity - and be a valued part of twenty-first century health care.

Author : Melissa Carter
Publisher : Ethics International Press
ISBN 13 : 1804411221
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Student's Search for Meaning written by Melissa Carter and published by Ethics International Press. This book was released on 2023-03-16 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume brings together reflections on how students pursue the search for meaning and purpose in the context of higher education. It offers perspectives from humanities professors, college chaplains of multiple faiths, and observers of the changing shape of the American university as each considers the needs and expectations of today’s students. The collection address three key lines of inquiry: what the student search for meaning looks like in the context of higher education; how do presenters understand the dimensions of the search for meaning itself; and how do (or don’t) humanities faculty and religious life leaders talk to each other around the common student concerns addressed in both course work and the extracurricular world of religious life programs? Together, the conversation suggests that students pursue a search for meaning in the context of university life and the academic curriculum, but the particular dimensions of this search are yet undefined. This is often a contested pursuit because it conflicts with the other purposes of the university which some see as primary. A key audience for this book is university administrators who work in the field of chaplaincy and faith-based programming, as well as department chairs and faculty in the liberal arts who are directly involved in building humanities curriculum.

Author : Gregory W. McGonigle
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666798592
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religious Diversity and University Chaplaincy written by Gregory W. McGonigle and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2024-05-03 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1990s, the religious diversity of United States universities has increased, with growing numbers of students, faculty, and staff who are Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, and Humanist. To support these demographics, university chaplaincies and spiritual life programs have been expanding beyond their Christian and Jewish compositions to include chaplains and programs for these traditions. Through interviews with these new chaplains, this book examines how these chaplaincies developed, the preparation the chaplains needed, their responsibilities, and the current challenges and the future prospects of these programs. It provides valuable advice for university leaders about how and why to develop spiritual life programs to support today’s religious diversity.

Author : Lucinda Mosher
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1785926063
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hindu Approaches to Spiritual Care written by Lucinda Mosher and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2019-10-21 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Showing how spiritual care is practiced in a variety of different contexts such as healthcare, detention and higher education, as well as settings that may not have formal chaplaincy arrangements, this book offers an original and unique resource for Hindu chaplains to understand and practice spiritual care in a way that is authentic to their own tradition and that meets the needs of Hindus. It offers a Hindu perspective for all chaplains to inform their caregiving to Hindus. The book explores the theological and metaphysical roots of Hindu chaplaincy and puts forward the case for Hindu chaplaincy as a valuable spiritual practice. It covers the issues that arise in specific locations, such as college, healthcare, prison, military and the corporate sector. Chapters also examine Hindu pastoral care offered in other, 'non-chaplaincy' settings, such as LGBT centres, social justice work and environmental activism. Made up of some 30 essays by chaplains, scholars and other important voices in the field, Hindu Approaches to Spiritual Care provides spiritual caregivers with a comprehensive theoretical and practical approach to the relationship of Hinduism and chaplaincy.

Author : Stephen James Nelson
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1793624240
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Searching the Soul of the College and University in America written by Stephen James Nelson and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2023 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a story of religious and democratic covenants and controversies in the foundations of America and in the soul of its colleges and universities. Coinciding entangled democratic beliefs and convictions distinctly define the American body politic and are in the foundation of the nation and its colleges and universities.