The Liquidation of the Church

Groot, Kees de

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“…For De Groot [2010], spiritual care in hospitals is a case where religious beliefs and practices move beyond the original religious sphere and are only partly determined by any one religion. As a consequence, the identities of chaplains may start to melt [De Groot 2018]. Norwood [2006: 20] recognises the increasingly nuanced practice of contemporary chaplains in religious and scientific discourse as leading to an 'ambivalent chaplain' who is in a constant process of negotiation, where chaplains are expected to 'facilitate' and 'initiate' spiritual care and religious rituals.…”

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“…For instance, Martínez-Ariño and Griera [2018] identified in their research four major roles that Spanish chaplains serve beyond their official work tasks: providing social services to fill in gaps in welfare services, dealing with religious illiteracy and diversity, attending to problematic situations, and sometimes serving as religious innovators. Data from different countries also seem to suggest that the chaplain role is still professionalising and leaving strict denominational borders [De Groot 2018;Martínez-Ariño and Griera 2018;Norwood 2006]. This professionalising trend is also evidenced by the existence of the special Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy, indicating that chaplains themselves are also taking a more active part in the research itself [Piderman and Johnson 2009;Weaver et al 2008].…”

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'The Core of My Work Is in Being with People Who Do Not Practise Faith in Any Way': The Self-Perception of Czech Hospital Chaplains

Beláňová¹

2022

Czech Sociological Review

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The article focuses on the understudied topic of contemporary hospital chaplaincy in the Czech Republic, its development, and the current issues this work is dealing with. Based on a study conducted among Czech hospital chaplains affiliated with the Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren, the Roman Catholic Church, the Czechoslovak Hussite Church, and the Church of Seventh Day Adventists, the article examines the experiences of Christian providers of spiritual care in the secularised environment of a hospital and sheds light on how they perceive their work and role. Two waves of interviews were conducted among thirteen hospital chaplains, male and female, and subjected to an applied thematic analysis. This produced four thematic areas that the article explores in detail: (1) the localisation of the chaplaincy within the hospital, (2) the chaplains' methods of working with patients, (3) the chaplains' relationships with other hospital personnel, and (4) the selfidentification of the hospital chaplains. The results of this research revealed that the secularised environment of the Czech Republic is a crucial factor that affects the work of chaplains in several ways, but their role in the hospital has at the same time in ways that are separate from their religious affiliation, as the understanding dialogue they engage in with patients forms a core part of their work.

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'The Core of My Work Is in Being with People Who Do Not Practise Faith in Any Way': The Self-Perception of Czech Hospital Chaplains

Beláňová¹

2022

Czech Sociological Review

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“…Ik sluit aan bij Zygmunt Baumans begrip liquid modernity (Bauman 2000) en neem als uitgangspunt dat gestolde religieuze vormen vloeibaar worden waardoor deze kunnen worden overgenomen in andere institutionele contexten. Naar analogie van het bedrijfskundig fenomeen van liquidatie spreek ik van de liquidatie van de kerk (De Groot 2018). Wat ze aan inboedel, eigendommen, onderdelen en kapitaal in huis heeft, wordt herverdeeld.…”

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Het buitenkerkelijke succes van de christelijke zielzorg

Groot¹

2017

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This article considers contemporary spiritual care in the Netherlands as the result of a development that started off with ecclesial initiatives. Through ecumenical cooperation, establishing a common professional organization, and initiating specialized training trajectories, priests, pastoral workers, ministers, rabbis, and humanistic counsellors have contributed to the development of a separate profession: spiritual care. Often these ‘new style’ chaplains work outside their own denomination. What started as an ecclesial service to patients, soldiers, and inmates has evolved into a new, precarious profession, sometimes only loosely connected with organized religion. Rather than an instance, however, of secularization or of a spiritual revolution, this persistence of the care of souls is regarded as a successful dissemination of the ecclesial tradition in the secular domain against the background of liquid modernity.

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“…Apart from these considerations and complications, religion and art have both been reported to be in some sort of existential or identity crisis. Institutionalised religion is not in its best shape, to put it mildly, at least in Western Europe, a situation that has been alternatively described as 'secularization' (Casanova 2009;Joas 2009), 'de-institutionalization' (Streib 2007) or religious 'liquidation' (Groot 2018), and/or ascribed to broader sociological phenomena like the rise of individualism (Flanagan 2001) or the dominance of the model of multiculturalism (Morris 2014). As I have argued before (Bosman 2019:16), while institutionalised religion is decreasing rapidly throughout the Western world, the classic secularisation thesis as such is problematic on at least two levels: in the first place, secularisation is primarily a phenomenon of the Western, post-Christian world, and second, even in the secularised Western world religion is far from a relic from a long gone past (Nicholis 1979;Cobb 2005;Usselmann 2018).…”

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When Art is Religion and Vice Versa. Six Perspectives on the Relationship between Art and Religion

Bosman

2020

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In the discussion of religion and art, it is quite difficult to exactly define what makes art ‘religious’. In this article, the author suggest six different perspectives in which a work of art—any work of art—could be interpreted as ‘religious’, as an embodiment of the complex relationship between art and religion. These perspectives are not mutually exclusive: one and the same art work could be approached on multiple levels at once. Nor do they disqualify other methodologies of studying art and religion. These perspectives provide conceptual windows to understand what people (could) mean when they discuss religious art. The six perspectives are: (1) material, (2) contextual, (3) referential, (4) reflexive, (5) ritual, and (6) existential. They vary from the more or less objective to the more subjective, and as such from artist-intended to viewer/listener-perceived (with or without help of clues provided by the artist and/or the object itself). The author illustrates who these different perspectives can vary in defining certain pieces of art as religious by using three very different case studies: the Isenheimer Altarpiece, one of Hugo Ball’s famous sound poems, and the digital game Child of Light.

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The Liquidation of the Church

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'The Core of My Work Is in Being with People Who Do Not Practise Faith in Any Way': The Self-Perception of Czech Hospital Chaplains

'The Core of My Work Is in Being with People Who Do Not Practise Faith in Any Way': The Self-Perception of Czech Hospital Chaplains

Het buitenkerkelijke succes van de christelijke zielzorg

When Art is Religion and Vice Versa. Six Perspectives on the Relationship between Art and Religion

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