The term ‘chaplain’ does not have a legal definition in the US at the federal or state level.
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Recent Supreme Court decisions have signaled a shift in how the country’s highest court interprets the limits on religion in schools.
As more Americans step away from organized religion, so do more chaplains – but they are prepared to offer spiritual care regardless of a patient’s beliefs.
Chaplains have always provided spiritual care outside traditional houses of worship, but their significance is growing as Americans’ religious identities change.
Chaplaincy emerged as a professional field in the mid-20th century. In the years since, their roles have evolved and they have also come to include many diverse religious traditions.
It’s worth recapping what’s known about how Australia’s chaplaincy program has operated so far, and what alternatives exist.
Not all chaplains are religious and Australia’s chaplaincy program actually prohibits preaching or religious practice.
The only chaplain in the COVID-19 section of a Montréal hospital offers spiritual care to patients and families, as well to staff, who have found themselves more intimately exposed to life and death.
When the US entered World War I in 1917, military chaplains catered to majority white and Christian soldiers. Today the armed forces recognize over 200 denominations and religious groups.
Chaplaincy is an integral part of campus life within many universities.
Recent media reports point to years of sexual abuse by Southern Baptist pastors. An expert writes why a long culture of women’s submission is responsible for this crisis.
The traditional role of chaplains is changing. They are increasingly present in social movements such as Occupy, Standing Rock and Black Lives Matter.
The National Council of Churches, which represents 38 Christian denominations, has long been the voice of progressive religion. But over the years, its influence has waned.
The anti-Vietnam War efforts of Yale University chaplain William Sloane Coffin Jr. and other church leaders alienated many Protestant Americans – with lasting repercussions.
Following the controversy over the resignation of House chaplain Patrick Conroy, in this speed read, scholars explain when the tradition of legislative prayer was started and how it has sustained.
We often rush by without looking, but America’s rich spiritual and religious life is reflected in these sanctuaries.
In the early 1900s, a group of Protestants in the US attempted a reunion of Christianity. They failed, of course, but they prompted a new dialogue.
With 90 percent of global goods coming to us by ship, who are the men and women who care for the crews?
Even as congregations decline, chapels, meditation and prayer rooms are evolving as spaces of multi-faith worship and quiet reflection.
Australia has a form of secularism where religion is allowed in the public sphere. As long as religion remains one voice and one option among many, the nation will still be secular.
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Professor of Sociology and President, Bryn Mawr College
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Associate Professor of Intellectual Heritage, Temple University
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Director of Programs, Chaplaincy Innovation Lab, Brandeis University
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Director of Research, Special Projects, President's Office, Bryn Mawr College
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Joseph Panzer Chair in Education and Research Professor of Law, University of Dayton
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Professor of Political Science, Clemson University
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Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Oregon State University
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Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology and School of Religious Studies, McGill University
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Lecturer, School of Education, Edith Cowan University
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Professor in the Sociology of Religion, Durham University
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Professor, The University of Western Australia
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Senior lecturer, Monash University
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Senior Lecturer, The University of Western Australia
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Research associate, The University of Western Australia
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Assistant Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley