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Hospital Chaplaincy in the Twenty-First Century

The Crisis of Spiritual Care on the NHS

by Christopher Swift

  • Hardback
  • 182 pages
  • Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Group
  • 15.6 x 23.4 x 1.3 cm

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Issues of faith and spirituality have been resurgent in the UK since the opening of the twenty-first century. This book charts the impact of shifting attitudes towards spirituality through the experiences of health care chaplains. Rooted in a new and challenging interpretation of the chaplain's work in the past, the book moves on to describe a current crisis in the nature of spiritual care. Using the tools of practical theology to analyze these experiences, fundamental problems are identified for chaplains as they work within the culture of 'evidence based practice'. As the National Health Service struggles to balance its books in the face of national economic uncertainty, chaplains will continue to come under increasing levels of scrutiny. Some chaplains have faced the prospect of redundancy or cuts to their budgets, while a growing number of NHS Trusts no longer offer chaplaincy to patients out of hours. In this context the nature of chaplaincy itself has come into question, and rival models of the profession have emerged. Is chaplaincy a new and distinct profession within health care, based on evidence and available to all?Or is it State-funded religious activity, theoretically open to all but in practice utilized chiefly by the faithful few? In responding to these questions the book concludes with a vision of how chaplaincy can both maintain its integrity - and be a valued part of twenty-first century health care.
Hospital Chaplaincy in the Twenty-First Century and Handbook of Chaplaincy Studies, A
Handbook of Chaplaincy Studies, AHospital Chaplaincy in the Twenty-First Century

  • Author

    Christopher Swift

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Ashgate Publishing Group

  • Published

    April 2009

  • Edition

    New edition

  • Weight

    477g

  • Page Count

    182

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.4 x 1.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9780754664161

  • ISBN-10

    0754664163

  • Eden Code

    1931747

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