Faith in the factory: the Church of Scotland's industrial mission, 1942-58

McFarland, Elaine; Johnston, R. J.

doi:10.1111/j.1468-2281.2009.00493.x

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“…In for-profit settings, less is known about how chaplains get access and consider their roles even though they have long histories in the settings. Chaplains worked for the East India Company (O'Connor 2012), as industrial chaplains in both the United Kingdom and the United States (Andersen 1980;Bell 2006;McFarland 2010a, 2010b;McFarland and Johnston 2010;Michelson 2006), and as worker-priests closely aligned with trade unions, especially in 1960s (Arnal 1986;Fisher 2009;Heideman 1967;MacNair 1963). Chaplains in these settings frequently balanced tensions between workers and management as their presence relied on permission from management yet it was management and organizational practices they frequently sought to transform (Bell 2006).…”

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Humanizing Agents of Modern Capitalism? The Daily Work of Port Chaplains

Cadge

Skaggs²

2018

Sociology of Religion

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While chaplains are required in the military, federal prisons, and the Veteran's Administration, they are also present in a range of other settings across the United States. In ports, religiously motivated individuals and institutions have long histories of evangelizing and providing social services. We focus on chaplains in 15 of the largest American ports today to ask how they negotiate access to seafarers and how they work with them daily. Chaplains negotiate security protocols, the hierarchy of ships, and their own self-presentations to get on board vessels. In their daily work, they shift among economic, moral, religious, and advocacy roles. Chaplains access seafarers by providing economic support and then use that access to develop the relationships they see as central to their work. By being present in these relationships, connecting seafarers to broader communities, and serving as an invisible global safety net, port chaplains see themselves acting as humanizing agents of modern capitalism. The case of port chaplaincy suggests additional strategies chaplains use to gain access not yet present in the sociological literature, further illustrates how the work of chaplains is shaped by the institutions within which it takes place, and expands sociological approaches to religion "on the edge" by showing multiple ways religion appears at the water's edge not yet theorized in that literature.

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Humanizing Agents of Modern Capitalism? The Daily Work of Port Chaplains

Cadge

Skaggs²

2018

Sociology of Religion

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Workplace chaplaincy: a literature review

Wolf

Feldbauer‐Durstmüller

2018

Journal of Management, Spirituality & Religion

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Interest in workplace spirituality has risen over the past few decades and it continues to garner increasing attention as evidenced by interdisciplinary scholarship and corporate interest. Workplace chaplaincy can be considered to be a special approach to spirituality in companies and therefore is described as a growing and concrete manifestation of workplace spirituality. Workplace chaplaincy can be called a phenomenon with a long history but partial scholarly study. This specialized manifestation of workplace spirituality has not yet received adequate academic attention and few empirical studies exist, but there are clear signs of emerging academic interest in this field of research. In this paper, we present an interdisciplinary systematic literature review focusing on the main topics in the available literature. As workplace chaplaincy is organized in different ways in different countries, the review aims to present diverse models of chaplaincy in various states. Furthermore, the question arises of whether workplace chaplaincy represents the real integration of spirituality or if it is just exploited by instrumentality, which means that workplace chaplaincy is solely regarded as an opportunity to improve the efficiency and performance of organizations.

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Chaplaincy and Seafarers

Sampson,

Turgo,

Cadge

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This book explores the faith, work, and lives of seafarers and port chaplains. These two groups of people are frequently overlooked by academics, as well as by members of wider society. Ports and ships are largely inaccessible to the public. As a result of their lack of visibility, many people are oblivious to the duties, needs, hopes, and aspirations of port chaplains and seafarers. This book therefore offers a rare insight into the life worlds of two little-known groups of workers. The book takes a broadly sociological approach and combines ethnographic and qualitative methodologies. It draws on the findings of a comprehensive study that was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. The research involved the analysis of archive materials, fieldwork in ports and on cargo ships, and interviews with chaplains in the United Kingdom, chaplains overseas, and stakeholder organizations. Using these sources, the text provides a detailed account of seafarers’ attitudes to working in mixed-faith crews, their understandings of their own faith and its role and negotiation in a life at sea, and their needs with regard to faith and more general welfare support. In addition, it details the daily life and work of port chaplains and explains how they understand their roles in relation to their own faith, as well as how they manage their work in a multi-faith environment.

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Faith in the factory: the Church of Scotland's industrial mission, 1942-58

Cited by 17 publications

References 2 publications

Humanizing Agents of Modern Capitalism? The Daily Work of Port Chaplains

Humanizing Agents of Modern Capitalism? The Daily Work of Port Chaplains

Workplace chaplaincy: a literature review

Chaplaincy and Seafarers

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