Place-Based Chaplaincy: An Interfaith Approach to Chaplaincy Training
| dc.contributor.author | Ritter, Laura E. | |
| dc.contributor.department | Religion (Asian) | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-05-28T20:38:43Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-05-28T20:38:43Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018-08 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) claims to be an interfaith chaplaincy training program. However, what constitutes interfaith chaplaincy is not clearly defined in CPE literature. This study asks the question: “Does interfaith chaplaincy work?” In other words, “Can a person be trained to offer support to people from a range of religious traditions other than their own?” To examine this question, I interviewed thirteen professional chaplains and conducted three focus group interviews with a group of chaplaincy students in Hawaiʻi. I argue that, while CPE training effectively prepares students for a ministry of presence, it does not train students to function as religious experts. To succeed in an interfaith capacity, I suggest that chaplains need religious and socio-cultural education specific to the populations with whom they are working. My study concludes with a proposal for a place-based chaplaincy course which integrates an academic approach to religion with CPE’s experiential training program. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10125/62776 | |
| dc.language | eng | |
| dc.publisher | University of Hawaii at Manoa | |
| dc.title | Place-Based Chaplaincy: An Interfaith Approach to Chaplaincy Training | |
| dc.type | Thesis | |
| dc.type.dcmi | Text | |
| dcterms.description | M.A. Thesis. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa 2018. |
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