The military chaplain: a study in ambiguity

Davie, Grace

doi:10.1080/1474225x.2014.998581

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“…Because they supported paramedics in all areas of their practice, including on the frontline or in the ambulance trucks in between jobs, chaplains were seen to genuinely ‘get it’ when some other support options were not. While some of these findings represent new evidence, there are similarities with police and military chaplain research (Davie, 2015 ; Gouse, 2017 ).…”

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The Role and Value of Chaplains in the Ambulance Service: Paramedic Perspectives

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Chaplains are employed by ambulance services in many states across Australia as one element in a suite of initiatives to support the health and wellness of paramedics. The aim of this paper is to present key findings from a study that explored paramedic perspectives on the role and value of chaplains in the ambulance service. Seventeen paramedics participated in semi-structured interviews. Data were analysed using framework analysis. Two themes were identified: scope of the chaplain’s role and organisational factors influencing the chaplain’s role. Paramedics highly valued what they believed to be proactive and reactive support provided by ambulance chaplains, regardless of paramedics’ personal spiritual or religious beliefs.

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The Role and Value of Chaplains in the Ambulance Service: Paramedic Perspectives

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“…In research on religion in healthcare in the United States and Canada, chaplains traversed positions between medicine and religion, pastoral and clinical staff, and religion and nonreligion ( Cadge, 2012 ; Reimer-Kirkham et al, 2020 ). This can result in chaplains navigating liminality in their roles or what Davie (2015) has described as ‘ambiguity’. Norwood’s (2006) study of American chaplains in a modern-day hospital revealed that they negotiated their place on the margins, learning a new language of hospital medicine to fit in and minimise their difference and unequal status (also see De Vries et al, 2008 ; Swift, 2016 ).…”

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In plain view: Gender in the work of women healthcare chaplains

Sharma

Reimer‐Kirkham

2022

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In sociological studies of religion and chaplaincy, there is little research on how gender plays a role in structural inequalities and experiences of women chaplains. Through research on the work of women chaplains in public healthcare in Vancouver (Canada) and London (England) this qualitative study revealed that while they have opportunities for leadership and ministry in chaplaincy, they are often on the margins of the religious institutions they are affiliated with and the secular medical organisations that employ them. Simultaneously, they confront the social structuring of gender and race that can affect them being overlooked. By applying a lived religion and feminist intersectional analysis, this research focuses on an area of study that has received scant attention.

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“…To study this relationship more closely, we focus upon chaplaincy in the armed forces. Military chaplaincy is an important field for reflection on the role of chaplains in the ambiguous church-state relationship (Davie, 2015) and it has been studied from mainly three angles: national approaches (Dörfler-Dierken, 2011;Grimell, 2020a;Karle & Peuckmann, 2020), moral injury (Carey et al, 2016;Doehring, 2019;Drescher et al, 2018), and religious diversity (Brekke & Tikhonov, 2017;Hansen, 2012). But, how does the military culture interact with spiritual care interventions of military chaplains?…”

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How the Military Context Shapes Spiritual Care Interventions by Military Chaplains

Pleizier

Schuhmann

2022

J Pastoral Care Counsel

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Spiritual care interventions depend upon the context in which care is provided, its institutional setting and the actors involved. In order to understand the relationship between interventions in spiritual care and the context in which care is provided, we study the spiritual interventions of military chaplains against the background of the armed forces. In our study, we demonstrate that the military context needs its own conceptualization to understand the pastoral practices of military chaplains. This article uses a qualitative comparative methodology and is based upon 13 case studies that have been generated over the course of five years by a team of eight military chaplains within the framework of the Dutch Case Study Project. The analysis results in four concepts that describe the relationship between spiritual care practices and the context of the armed forces in more detail: structuring pastoral availability, positioning within the military environment, existential negotiation of being human and being a soldier and transforming military time. We conclude that the study of spiritual care in context leads to a contextualized understanding of spiritual care practices and stimulates comparison of pastoral care practices across contexts.

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The military chaplain: a study in ambiguity

Cited by 13 publications

References 11 publications

The Role and Value of Chaplains in the Ambulance Service: Paramedic Perspectives

The Role and Value of Chaplains in the Ambulance Service: Paramedic Perspectives

In plain view: Gender in the work of women healthcare chaplains

How the Military Context Shapes Spiritual Care Interventions by Military Chaplains

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