Dissertations / Theses: 'Chaplain'

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McGuffin, Frederick A. "U.S. Navy Chaplain Corps recruiting ideas to boost deficiencies with recruiting and assessing of chaplains." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Naval Postgraduate School, 2008. http://bosun.nps.edu/uhtbin/hyperion-image.exe/08Mar%5FMcGuffin.pdf.

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Thesis (M.S. in Management)--Naval Postgraduate School, March 2008.
Thesis Advisor(s): Gates, Bill ; Simon, Cary. "March 2008." Description based on title screen as viewed on May 5, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p.77-78). Also available in print.

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Mulqueen, Joseph Christopher. "The military chaplain as pastor." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2005. http://www.tren.com.

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Pryor, Gerald H. "Hospital chaplain handbook a practical guide /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1985. http://www.tren.com.

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Steiner, John F. "Handbook for the Christian school chaplain." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 1989. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p028-0031.

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Tostenson, Thomas Daniel. "Design for starting a chaplain agency." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2007. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p067-0008.

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Smith, Hilary. "Chaplaincy, power and prophecy in the Scottish prison system : the changing role of the prison chaplain." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/30771.

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The thesis is concerned with the changing role of the prison chaplain in the Scottish prison system and includes an empirical investigation of the current role of chaplaincy. The first chapter of the thesis offers some historical perspectives on the role of religion and the role of the prison chaplain at a time in the mid to late 19^th century when the role of religion was a primary influence on penal policy and practice. The prison chaplain was regarded along with the Governor and the Medical officer as one of the 'superior' officers in a penal establishment and his influence was a major one. The chapter summarises briefly how the Christian religion and the role of the prison chaplain became important influences upon penal policy and practice as a possible way of reforming offenders and reducing crime. By the early years of the 20^th century, it had become clear that the Christian religious philosophy which had strongly influenced penal theory and practice in the 19^th century had not been effective in the control of crime and the reformation of those who were imprisoned. So it was that the influence of the Christian religion in the penal setting, both in theory and in practice through the work of chaplains, became increasingly discredited. The marginalisation of chaplaincy began to occur and the second chapter discusses the possible reasons for this marginality within the context of developing social, welfare and penal reforms which took place during the latter half of this century. Chapter three looks further at the role of prison chaplaincy during a period of disruption and crisis in the Scottish prison system in the 1980's and early 1990's. It summarises the causes and characteristics of the crisis and discusses the nature of the concomitant crisis which occurred in prison chaplaincy and how the Scottish Prison Service and the churches attempted to resolve these crises.

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Harris, Kenneth G. "Restructuring the United States Navy Chaplain Corps." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2005. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion/05Sep%5FHarris.pdf.

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Thompson, John Handby. "The Free Church army chaplain 1830-1930." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1990. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/1785/.

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The study traces the efforts of English Nonconformists to provide chaplains for their adherents in the British Army. Unrecognised by the War Office, and opposed by the Church of England, the Wesleyan Methodists persisted in providing an unpaid civilian ministry until, by stages, they secured partial recognition in 1862 and 1881. The respect earned by volunteer Wesleyan civilian chaplains, who accompanied the troops on most colonial and imperial expeditions in the last quarter of the century, culminating in the Boer War, prompted the War Office in 1903 to offer them a number of commissioned chaplaincies. The Wesleyans declined the offer. Although they had earlier, and after anguished debate, accepted State payment of chaplains, they were not prepared to accept military control of them. In the Great War, Wesleyan chaplains were nevertheless obliged to accept temporary commissions. Congregationalists, Baptists, Primitive and United Methodists, through a United Board, provided another stream of chaplains. With the political help of Lloyd George, both sets of Nonconformists secured equitable treatment at the hands of the Church of England and, through an Interdenominational Committee, gained positions of considerable influence over chaplaincy policy. In the field, remarkably for the age, they joined with Presbyterians and Roman Catholics in a single chain of command. By 1918, over 500 Wesleyan and United Board commissioned chaplains were engaged. After the war, as the price of retaining their newly won standing and influence, both the Wesleyans and the United Board denominations accepted permanent commissions for their chaplains and their absorption within a unified Chaplains Department. Acceptability was secured through willingness to compromise on voluntaryism and conformity to the State.

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Macleod, Douglas. "The role of the prison chaplain three case studies /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2000. http://www.tren.com.

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Nzegwu, Chike. "Chaplaincy Inclusion in Hospital Interdisciplinary Teams and Its Impact on Chaplains' Well-Being." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/6077.

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Healthcare providers may impede the delivery of spiritual and emotional support to patients and their families by healthcare professional chaplains if they misunderstand how to effectively use chaplains, who often prefer to be engaged sooner than they are. This issue prevents highly trained, board-certified professional chaplains from providing services, thereby impacting the quality of patient care. The purpose of this phenomenological study was to examine, through the lived experiences of professional chaplains, the extent to which chaplains feel that others perceive them as valued members of an interdisciplinary team (IDT), as well as to determine how team inclusion may impact chaplains' physical and emotional well-being. An adaptation of the antecedents and outcomes of inclusion theoretical framework was used. Research questions were developed to elicit to what extent professional chaplains perceived that they were valued members of IDTs and what impact inclusion had on their well-being A semistructured interview protocol with open-ended questions was used with 9 board-certified professional chaplains in the northeastern region of the United States.. Data were analyzed through coding and comparison of significant responses into units of meaning to reflect the phenomenon of participants' experiences. Key findings revealed that inclusion did have an impact on the well-being of chaplains, and its impact was perceived as positive. This study may contribute to positive social change by helping to initiate training and education programs for healthcare organizations that work with and employ professional chaplains to effectively integrate chaplains into IDTs, ensuring more timely evaluation and care planning for patients and their families to achieve greater wholeness and healing.

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Macarthur, Melvyn John. "From Armageddon to Babylon: A sociological religious studies analysis of the decline of the Protestant prison chaplain as an institution with particular reference to the British and New South Wales prisons from the penitentiary to the present time." University of Sydney. Society, Culture and Performance, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/675.

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Prisons have been a both a curiosity and an interest of mine at various times in my life. On occasions in my childhood I drove with my parents past the prison at Long Bay, in Sydney, New South Wales. It was a frightening, but fascinating place. My gaze was fixed on the grounds of the prison, both hoping and fearing to sight an escapee. Later, as a tertiary social work student with an interest in the concept of social control, my thoughts were sometimes focused on the prison. However, it was not until the early part of 1993 that I actually entered a prison. I was then in the final year of my ordinand studies. I had elected, in one of the Field Education components of my studies, to spend time in the Chaplaincy Department of the Long Bay prison in Sydney. The experience was a very significant one in that it was to raise difficult, but fascinating questions for me about the role of religion and the clergy in the prison. During my placement at Long Bay I observed much which strongly suggested that religion and the clergy (chaplains) occupy a peripheral place in the prison system. I was also puzzled by the role of the chaplains, and here I refer to the Protestant chaplains, the only chaplains with whom I had contact. From the perspective of one trained in both social work and theology, it seemed to me that the chaplains were performing many of the same tasks, which one would expect to be performed by the prison welfare staff. In fact it was with difficulty that I could identify anything distinctively 'religious' in the role of the chaplain who, it seemed to me, functioned as something of a quasi welfare professional. It was also very apparent to me that the chaplains had a low profile in the prison; at Long Bay even the chaplaincy offices were outside the prison walls. The chaplains were like exiles, an image which stayed with me long after my placement in the prison had ended. These observations presented a stark contrast to the centrality of religion and the chaplain in the penitentiary, the fledgling prison of the nineteenth century. The chapels in the contemporary prisons, some of which I had seen photographs of, were curiosities. The very prominence and size of the chapel in many of the prisons, both in New South Wales and Britain, many of which were built in the nineteenth century, symbolised the decline of religion from its position of centrality. Religion's function in the contemporary operations and theoretical underpinnings of the prison is marginal by comparison with the penitentiary. The prison chapel is now curiously anachronistic, being used extensively for secular purposes, such as the screening of movies, the holding of various meetings, and sometimes for sports. The liturgical and sacramental functions to which the chapels were dedicated are all but absent, at least for the Protestant chaplains.

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Phillips, Peter. "Roles and identities of the Anglican chaplain : a prison ethnography." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2013. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/59848/.

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In this ethnography, writing as both practitioner and researcher, I represent and analyse the opinions and reflections of Anglican chaplains in English and Welsh prisons in order to locate their self - perception of role and identity. The Anglican chaplain has been a statutory appointment in every prison since 1779 and was a central figure in penal practice throughout the first half of the 19th century. Several chaplains wrote at length about their ministry and its significance; this conscious utterance in the public domain dwindled sharply from the 1860s onwards. My research presents current chaplains’ perspectives on their role and identity, configured by a social context which is perceived to be secular and in which other world faiths have a strong presence. Four main areas of focus emerge from the data: working with prisoners, working with staff, the apparently contradictory, ritual nature of secular and religious engagement, and issues of gendered interaction. These data are contextualised by respondents’ perceptions of prisons as parishes, the construction of Anglican chaplains’ identity by events within and outwith prisons and churches, and perceived relations with the Church of England and the Church in Wales. Having recognised other models of prison ministry, the thesis ends by identifying modes of potential, structured cooperation between church and chaplaincy. The epistemological con text derives from Goffman’s theory of total institutions but recognises subsequent reinterpretations of his work. The methodological reference points are Turner’s theory of liminality, Bell’s theory of ritual - like activities and Foucault’s heterotopia of deviance. The thesis offers a perspective on a traditional public form of ministry, that of the chaplains themselves, unexplored and not analysed for over a century. It is submitted as a further development in the growing discourse around practical theology and religious ministry in prisons.

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Macarthur, Melvyn John. "From Armageddon to Babylon: A sociological religious studies analysis of the decline of the Protestant prison chaplain as an institution with particular reference to the British and New South Wales prisons from the penitentiary to the present time." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/675.

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Prisons have been a both a curiosity and an interest of mine at various times in my life. On occasions in my childhood I drove with my parents past the prison at Long Bay, in Sydney, New South Wales. It was a frightening, but fascinating place. My gaze was fixed on the grounds of the prison, both hoping and fearing to sight an escapee. Later, as a tertiary social work student with an interest in the concept of social control, my thoughts were sometimes focused on the prison. However, it was not until the early part of 1993 that I actually entered a prison. I was then in the final year of my ordinand studies. I had elected, in one of the Field Education components of my studies, to spend time in the Chaplaincy Department of the Long Bay prison in Sydney. The experience was a very significant one in that it was to raise difficult, but fascinating questions for me about the role of religion and the clergy in the prison. During my placement at Long Bay I observed much which strongly suggested that religion and the clergy (chaplains) occupy a peripheral place in the prison system. I was also puzzled by the role of the chaplains, and here I refer to the Protestant chaplains, the only chaplains with whom I had contact. From the perspective of one trained in both social work and theology, it seemed to me that the chaplains were performing many of the same tasks, which one would expect to be performed by the prison welfare staff. In fact it was with difficulty that I could identify anything distinctively 'religious' in the role of the chaplain who, it seemed to me, functioned as something of a quasi welfare professional. It was also very apparent to me that the chaplains had a low profile in the prison; at Long Bay even the chaplaincy offices were outside the prison walls. The chaplains were like exiles, an image which stayed with me long after my placement in the prison had ended. These observations presented a stark contrast to the centrality of religion and the chaplain in the penitentiary, the fledgling prison of the nineteenth century. The chapels in the contemporary prisons, some of which I had seen photographs of, were curiosities. The very prominence and size of the chapel in many of the prisons, both in New South Wales and Britain, many of which were built in the nineteenth century, symbolised the decline of religion from its position of centrality. Religion's function in the contemporary operations and theoretical underpinnings of the prison is marginal by comparison with the penitentiary. The prison chapel is now curiously anachronistic, being used extensively for secular purposes, such as the screening of movies, the holding of various meetings, and sometimes for sports. The liturgical and sacramental functions to which the chapels were dedicated are all but absent, at least for the Protestant chaplains.

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Adams, Kevin E. "Patterns in Chaplain Documentation of Assessments and Interventions, a Descriptive Study." VCU Scholars Compass, 2015. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/3900.

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Abstract PATTERNS IN CHAPLAIN DOCUMENTATION OF ASSESSMENTS AND INTERVENTIONS, A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY by Kevin Eugene Adams, MDiv A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Virginia Commonwealth University Virginia Commonwealth University, 2015 Diane Dodd-McCue, D.B.A, Department of Patient Counseling There is increasing emphasis on the importance of evidence-based care provided by all disciplines in healthcare. The Electronic Health Record (EHR) is becoming the standard for communicating assessments, plans of care, interventions, and outcomes of patient care. The spiritual care literature demonstrates the importance of assessing religious/spiritual needs and resources and developing plans of care to address the results of such assessment (Anandarajah & Hight, 2001; Borneman, Ferrell, & Puchalski, 2010; Fitchett, 1999; Fitchett & Risk, 2009; H. G. Koenig, 2007). This literature also suggests that addressing religious/spiritual needs of patients and families in the healthcare context can affect healthcare and adherence outcomes. The purpose of this study was to identify patterns of chaplain assessment and patterns of chaplain provision of services. This descriptive study was an exploratory retrospective analysis of categorical data recorded by clinical staff chaplains in the EHR at a single all pediatric healthcare institution, using contingency tables and frequency tables. The study examined chaplain use of assessment and service descriptors and the patterns of these descriptors when documenting chaplain visits. The results indicate chaplain preference for communicating in the EHR using general themes and concepts. This reveals an opportunity for chaplains to develop and implement a model of professional identity and articulation of care that is broad enough to accommodate the diversity of religion/spirituality chaplains encounter, yet able to articulate the specifics of patient and family religion/spirituality. The results found no consistent patterns among assessments or services provided. Further, the results found no indication of patterns between assessments made and the services provided. This presents an opportunity for chaplains to develop and implement a theory-driven, construct-based model of care that will connect the different facets of spiritual care. The assessments made will lead to plans of care that involve specific interventions resulting in appropriate outcomes related to overall patient and family care.

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Flanagan, Julie. "The development of the chaplain advanced level program in clinical pastoral education." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1985. http://www.tren.com.

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Crouterfield, Bruce. "The value of the Navy Chaplain In the Fleet Marine Force environment." Lynchburg, Va. : Liberty University, 2009. http://digitalcommons.liberty.edu.

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Klein, Kevin Edward. "The Weapons Policy of the Canadian Forces Chaplain Branch: A Multi-Theoretical Analysis." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/28564.

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Military chaplains of all countries are vehemently debating the issue of chaplains bearing arms. On both sides of the debate, various arguments are advanced which get to the very nature of the chaplain's role as non-combatant and minister of religion. However, there is not a consensus between military chaplaincies or even within military chaplaincies whether or not chaplains ought to carry weapons for their own protection or the protection of others especially in the present security environment. Within the Canadian Forces chaplains are expressly forbidden from ever bearing or using personal weapons in combat operations. This thesis analyzes the question of chaplains bearing and using personal weapons from an ethical standpoint. Three ethical views will be explored: J.J.C Smart's act utilitarianism, Alasdair Macintyre's virtue ethics, and Alan Gewirth's ethical rationalism. By using these three meta-ethical perspectives, the dialogue on chaplains bearing arms within the Canadian Forces can be advanced and policies re-evaluated.

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Woodward, James Welford. "A study of the role of the acute health care chaplain in England." Thesis, Open University, 1999. http://oro.open.ac.uk/57940/.

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This thesis explores the world and work of the acute health care chaplain in England through an examination of chaplaincy history, literature and experience. The core evidence used in the thesis is a body of empirical material within which health care chaplains articulate for themselves the key issues of working within Acute Care. This material provides an insight into how health care chaplains understood and managed their roles in hospitals during the early part of the 1990s. The thesis falls into three parts. The first part sets the study within a particular framework explaining the method and sociological background to the study. Chapter 1 explains the rationale and content of the study. Chapter 2 sets out the objectives and methodology undergirding this study of the role of the acute health care chaplain. Chapter 3 places the study within the sociology of professions and contextualises the place of clergy in today's society. The second part of the thesis presents the data. Chapter 4 provides the necessary historical background in order to understand how health care chaplaincy has developed since the establishment of the National Health Service in 1948. It also presents necessary information on the organisation and delivery of acute care in England, in order to contextualise the chaplains' responses to Health Service reorganisation in Chapter 6. Chapter 5 evaluates chaplaincy literature in order to build up a systematic picture of how chaplains have described and reflected on their roles and functions. Chapter 6 presents the core empirical evidence and reveals how chaplains seek to come to terms with their particular environment and how their value and belief systems interact with practice. Chaplains describe how they do their work through their articulation of a range of roles, functions and activities. They express their understanding of the core tasks of chaplaincy work and discuss what helps or hinders them in fulfIlling these tasks. In reporting the chaplains' perceptions about conflict, this study investigates how values operate in practice and how conflicts are resolved. Chaplains' use of time, and the literature they produce to communicate the nature of their chaplaincy departments, are also explored to examine the qualitative data and complete the picture of what chaplains do and why and how they do it. Part three of the thesis presents the conclusions. Chapter 7 analyses the data in the light of both the methodology undergirding the, study and the sociological context. It presents the picture that emerges from both the data and this analysis of chaplaincy in acute care. It discusses the range of roles, functions and models of chaplaincy presented in Part 2 of the work. Chapter 8 places the empirical evidence within the context of the impact of recent NHS reforms. It discusses the impact of organisational and managerial change on chaplaincy. Chapter 9 concludes the thesis by discussing its outcomes, limitations and possible ways forward for chaplaincy and chaplaincy research in the future. Central to this thesis is the hypothesis that chaplains experience a measure of tension about both their role and function as they operate in the two worlds of the Church and the National Health Service. This study seeks to show how chaplains seek to resolve this tension; largely by giving priority to the needs and expectations imposed on them by the particular context within which they ftnd themselves. There is little sign of grand theory or overarching strategy.

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Hart, Raymond C. "The future Air Force chaplain service work site visitation with Generation X personnel /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2001. http://www.tren.com.

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Woodward, James Welford. "A study of the role of the acute health care chaplain in England." n.p, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/.

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Kim, Jonghoon. "Identification of a navy chaplain and its role in the light of the model of Christ's incarnation." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2003. http://www.tren.com.

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Mueller, Kurt A. "Raising U.S. Army Spiritual Fitness Inventory Scores Through Chaplain Review of CRU Evangelism Materials." Thesis, Nyack College, Alliance Theological Seminary, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10281631.

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The purpose of writing this paper was to raise awareness about spiritual fitness within the Hawaii Army National Guard. A training program was developed to assist soldiers with increasing their spiritual fitness, thereby making them more resilient.

Chapter 1 outlines the current trends and ministry problem facing the Hawaii Army National Guard soldiers. A review of the US Army Comprehensive Soldier Fitness Program is addressed, and it is shown how spiritual fitness is developed and increased.

Chapter 2 provides a review of literature relating to the topic of spiritual fitness, and the importance and place it has in our society. The development of the Four Spiritual Laws is addressed, and shown how the use of the booklet can very simply and directly help individuals grow their faith personally.

Chapter 3 sets forth the research methodology utilized in approaching the project, including the use of readily available training materials and resources. The purpose of the spiritual fitness inventory is discussed and the goals of each research area are defined.

Chapter 4 presents an analysis of the method used to gather supporting data. The methodology for the chaplain led intervention is outlined, so that others can use the program to engage their military units in the future replication of this program.

Chapter 5 assesses the data and points to the strategy for areas of further research across the Hawaii Army National Guard. The benefits of the program are discussed and shown to be applicable for implementation by other chaplains across the state.

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Swift, Christopher James. "The function of the chaplain in the government of the sick in English acute hospitals." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.425214.

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Kelley, David W. "An assessment of effective senior level leadership within the United States Air Force Chaplain Service." Lynchburg, Va. : Liberty University, 2005. http://digitalcommons.liberty.edu.

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Crivelari, Ubiratan Nelson. "A importância do profissional "Capelão": força vital na consolidação do Exército Brasileiro." Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, 2009. http://tede.mackenzie.br/jspui/handle/tede/2666.

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This work aims to investigate the military chaplain s work in the Brazilian Army. This ministry has been seen since the Portuguese arrival to Brazil and as the time pass it ripens and became a well developed structure. It is obvious that it has a conspicuous work in the men s hands who have the interest in giving spiritual and emotional support to the militaries as well as to their families. The religious work has a vital importance in military life since the soldier will have the chance to have a more balanced life. We can also realize through this work that besides the job carried out by the Catholic Roman Church, a great job has been done by the Evangelical chaplains. According to the statistics, the number of evangelical soldiers has been growing in an outstanding way. This research is based on parts of interviews with two Brazilian Army chaplains, a priest and a pastor who will mention the gigantic work done in this Army. The chaplain is vital in the consolidation of Brazilian Army.
Este trabalho visa investigar o trabalho do capelão Militar junto ao Exército Brasileiro. Este ministério pode ser visto desde a chegada dos portugueses ao Brasil e com o passar do tempo ele amadurece chegando hoje como uma estruturação bem desenvolvida em que fica patente que é um trabalho conspícuo nas mãos de homens que têm o interesse em apoiar espiritual e emocionalmente os militares bem como suas famílias. O trabalho religioso é de vital importância dentro da vida militar, pois, possibilitará ao soldado ter uma vida mais equilibrada. Percebe-se no decorrer desta obra que, além do trabalho realizado pela Igreja Católica Romana, tem-se realizado um ótimo trabalho pelos capelães Evangélicos, pois, segundo estatísticas levantadas o número de soldados evangélicos vem crescendo de forma acentuada. Esta pesquisa consta de partes de entrevistas feitas com dois capelães do Exército Brasileiro, um padre e um pastor que mencionarão o gigantesco trabalho exercido nesta Força Armada. O Capelão é vital na consolidação do Exército Brasileiro.

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Muehler, Craig G. "The role of the Navy core values in Christian counseling an exploration in integration for the Navy chaplain /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2001. http://www.tren.com.

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Thomas, Jacqueline Mary. "Voicing the spiritual : a dynamic exploration and analysis of the role of the chaplain in English hospices." Thesis, St Mary's University, Twickenham, 2016. http://research.stmarys.ac.uk/1268/.

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Since Cicely Saunders founded the first of the modern hospices in 1967 the body of literature on spirituality and spiritual care in healthcare has grown. At the same time the role of Christianity as the dominant culture has declined and the role of the chaplain has changed. Spirituality is no longer assumed to be Christian but has an independent existence which has resulted in questions as to where and to whom spiritual care belongs. Despite finding that they have to explain, if not justify, their role and their salary hospice chaplains have largely failed to engage in research and written but a few articles. Therefore my initial research question asked: how do hospice chaplains understand spirituality and spiritual care? However, as a retired hospice chaplain, reflection on my own experience of the patient-focus, which leaves little time for anything else, led me to recognize that the question is too focused. Furthermore ministerial integrity, which results in a reticence to speak about the work and which struggles to accommodate the production of evidence to justify the role suggests that a broader question on the nature of the hospice chaplain's role is necessary to elicit the understanding of spiritual care. Therefore this study empowers hospice chaplains to speak openly about their work. However, as there was no data available on hospice chaplains it was necessary to carry out the first ever Profile Survey of the 162 members of the Association of Hospice & Palliative Care Chaplains. The survey was carried out online and included a question on willingness to be interviewed. From the 108 chaplains who responded twenty-five chaplains were selected, reflecting the profile, and interviewed using a semi-structured format. The findings of both the Profile Survey and the interviews are presented. From the interview data two connected themes, prophet and presence, emerged and are examined in detail. Using the work of Walter Brueggemann the prophetic aspect of the chaplain's person and work is explored, finding common ground in the concept of presence. Henri Nouwen's work provides the basis for exploring the formation of presence, revealing the importance of listening and leading to further exploration, through the writing of Jean-Pierre de Caussade, of the relevance of kenosis. In the process of analysis a number of shifting boundaries, related to the chaplain and the future of hospice care, were revealed. These are examined before presenting my conclusions and recommendations, ending with a picture of the hospice chaplain of the future.

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Shoemaker, Jessica P. "A simple plan, a simple faith chaplain and local congregant strategies for sharing faith in the prison context /." Birmingham, Ala. : University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2008. https://www.mhsl.uab.edu/dt/2008m/shoemaker.pdf.

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Brooks, Carolyn Ward. "The prison chaplain as a facilitator in assisting incarcerated women with their spiritual formation, personal growth, and institutional compatibility." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 2000. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/AAIDP14666.

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The purpose of this project was to empower the incarcerated women at the Jefferson Correctional Institution in Monticello, Florida, through the use of a faith-based program, 'Empowered to Endure Hardship.' The project consisted of sixteen (16) consecutive weeks of group participation, involving 75 women who were divided into two groups. Group A, the target group, consisted of 45 women who completed the questionnaires and participated in all of the group sessions and activities. Group B, the control group, consisted of 30 women who only completed the questionnaires. The sessions in which the target group participated included video and audio preaching tapes, live preaching, group interaction and discussions, prayer and a short devotional period at each session. All of the sermons contained one common thread: How to overcome or endure hardships in life. Practical examples were given for endurance and overcoming techniques were demonstrated. The overall hypothesis was as a result of Group A's participation in an organized structured group, the participants would receive fewer disciplinary reports, corrective counseling reports, and confinement visitations than those in Group B. While this goal was attained by Group A, there was not enough significant difference in Group B to merit any real attention. This does not mean the project was a failure. For in the ensuing weeks after the project was completed, the members of Group B continued to ask that another group be formed in which they could participate to receive the same empowerment that Group A had received. This model of ministry for the women at Jefferson Correctional Institution is ongoing and allows for additional components of ministry as future needs arise.

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Kassam-Remtulla, Aly. "Muslim Chaplaincy on campus : case studies of two American universities." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:3dfee661-1b66-4570-a808-19aaee5c04f9.

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This thesis investigates the emergence and development of Muslim Chaplaincy at Princeton and Rutgers universities. It seeks to answer three questions: (1) How did university-based Muslim Chaplaincy develop? (2) What roles did Muslim Chaplains play? and (3) Why did university administrators hire and sanction Muslim Chaplains? The thesis explores these questions by examining the decision making processes of administrators through in-depth case studies based on observations, document analysis, and 64 interviews with current and former Muslim Chaplains, University Chaplains, Muslim student leaders, faculty members, alumni, and other administrators. The case studies are prefaced by a description of the national context for campus Muslim Chaplaincy based on 36 interviews with religious life professionals at 21 other colleges. My research suggests that Muslim Chaplaincy at Princeton emerged through the advocacy of Christian University Chaplains; in contrast, at Rutgers the role was created by a local community organisation and sanctioned by student affairs professionals. Campus Muslim Chaplains played a variety of roles. For Muslim students, they provided religious, pastoral, advisory, educational, programmatic, and liaisonal support. They also served other university constituents and local community members. Administrators at both institutions had multiple rationales for hiring and sanctioning Muslim Chaplains: to advance social justice for Muslim students, to provide an educational benefit to non-Muslim students, to remain competitive with peer institutions, to overcome histories of exclusion, and to avoid potential crisis situations. The goal of this study is to make two contributions to knowledge. In terms of its subject, this thesis provides the first empirical case studies of Muslim Chaplaincy in American higher education and frames these cases within the national context. In terms of theory, this study aims to develop an understanding of the administrative rationales behind the creation of Muslim Chaplaincies. It does this through the application of the political, cultural, and adaptive sociological models of the university. In particular, it draws on the concepts of institutional isomorphism and risk mitigation/management as explanations for the emergence of Muslim Chaplaincy.

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Kyriakides-Yeldham, Anthony Paul Richard. "Identity and ministry in healthcare chaplaincy : the liminality of the Church of England priest who continues to sing the Lord's song in the strange land of the National Health Service." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/29655.

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This thesis examines the dual identity of the Church of England priest employed as an NHS healthcare chaplain. In 1948, full-time NHS chaplains provided a Church of England ministry of liturgy and pastoral care. Their twenty-first century counterpart delivers existential spiritual or pastoral care. Though Church of England chaplains are licensed by the Church, their work is shaped by the NHS and the Trust which employs them. They are accountable to the Church and the NHS even though each promotes different values and serves different ends. Published literature alludes to the chaplain’s sense of marginalization from the Church and within the NHS. Interviews with twelve full-time NHS chaplains, who are Church of England priests, focused on how they interpreted their dual identity as priest and chaplain, and the impact the two institutions had on these identities. This I framed using the theoretical model, ‘communities of practice’. Analysis of these interviews confirmed that chaplains thought they were disconnected from the priorities and values of the Church. This they described as ‘marginalization’, a term which appears elsewhere in published literature sometimes interchangeable with ‘liminality’. I claim that liminality is not only conceptually different but makes a distinct contribution to understanding the work and identity of chaplain and priest. I argue the existence of liminal intelligence and its importance in the ministry of the chaplain. I maintain that ministerial priesthood needs to be faithful to its liminal credentials. These I trace back to the liminality of the cultic priesthood outlined in the Hebrew bible as well as the liminality of Jesus, his teaching and the communitas of the early Church. I propose that the role of the ministerial priest is not only about recalling the institutional Church to its liminal roots but that liminality is the essence of priesthood.

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Klingenstein, Joanna. "Mobilizing Motifs: An Installation Articulating and Visualizing Relationships between the U.S. Healthcare System, the Chronically Ill Patient, and the Healthcare Chaplain." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1620742386332207.

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Kammer, Donald W. "The United States Army Chaplain as Prophet in the Twenty-First Century: "Is There a Soul of Goodness in Things Evil?"." W&M ScholarWorks, 2005. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626477.

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Pearce, Sacha J. T. "Building space : developing reflection for wellbeing : can a chaplain help healthcare professionals develop reflective practice for wellbeing for themselves and their team?" Thesis, University of Chester, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10034/621870.

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In this thesis I develop a new, wider and richer understanding of wellbeing, through developing a process of reflective practice, with healthcare professionals within their challenging work culture. As a healthcare chaplain, having witnessed poor staff morale, I conducted a critical examination of NHS wellbeing reports and strategies, which revealed an understanding of staff wellbeing that ironically follows simply a health model. Challenging this, I argue for a broader interpretation of wellbeing that, in addition to focusing on health, is more holistic, relational and contextual. I develop reflective practice to nurture this, the use of which extends in healthcare beyond education and professional development. In my action research, knowledge was generated through ethnographic participation and observation, over a year, reflecting as chaplain with eight teams of healthcare professionals. This used my simple and memorable HELP Wellbeing Reflection Cycle (building on Kolb's (1984) model of experiential learning) that combines reflection on work and personal development. My project also responds to Rolfe's call (2014) for greater use in healthcare of Schön's (1980) "reflection-in-action". Building on these works, I develop reflection for healthcare professionals to nurture their wellbeing. My encouragement of the participants to self-facilitate their own reflective groups, when familiar with this method of reflection, is also a contribution to reflective practice, healthcare and the chaplain's role. Thematic data analysis emerged from the reflexive field notes of our shared experience as co-reflective practitioners. The themes include healthcare professionals making the human connection between themselves and with their patients. They also value the space to reflect together, realising their desire for team support and a shared goal, as well as job satisfaction in this demanding culture. These themes, I argue, are consistent with the broader definitions of wellbeing, giving them the opportunity to be both a healthcare professional and human. Further data analysis also reveals consistency with wider wellbeing interpretations (including personal wellbeing measurements and data from the Office for National Statistics (2014, 2015)). I develop the role of chaplain as the healthcare professionals' co-reflector, sharing their reflective space as a pastoral encounter and a source for learning. This combines the images of "empty handed" (Swift, 2009) "welcoming guest" and "mutual hospitality" (Walton, M., 2012). I offer to national healthcare the wider understanding of wellbeing, and the value of creating provision for reflective space to nurture it, in the care of healthcare professionals. This research offers the potential for exciting further developments in a wider constituency both in and beyond healthcare.

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Wallmon, Amanda. "Där taket är högt och trösklarna låga : En religionssociologisk studie av hur Universitetskyrkans verksamhet framställs i tre svenska studenttidningar." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Religionssociologi, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-255660.

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The aim of this essay is to study how the University Church is represented in student newspapers. By conducting an inductive thematic analysis on sixteen articles chosen from newspapers distributed by the student union at three Swedish universities, the main purpose of the study is to further understand the role and function of the University Church in a contemporary Swedish context. Three themes emerging from the initial step of the thematic analysis were chosen for further analysis: (1) a secularized church?, (2) provocation and (3) reasons to seek out the University Church. The themes were then highlighted by two theoretical perspectives: Mark Chaves’ theory of internal secularization and a theoretical framework developed by Anders Bäckström with the aim to explain the role of the church as a welfare agent in Sweden. The study shows that the University Church is portrayed as both an ambiguous and complex organization. On one hand, the material shows that the University Church is expected to serve as one student welfare provider among several others on campus. On the other hand, the University Church is blamed for enforcing the dominating Christian hegemony and thus excluding students belonging to other faith traditions. On a macro level, the study shows that the University Church’s intentions do not always correlate with the expected role of the church expressed by critics. Consequently, the University Church seems to struggle with finding its role, much like the Church of Sweden has done since the disestablishment in 2000. On a meso level, secularization of religious authorities was noticeable in the material as university chaplains are depicted spending a majority of their time on providing student welfare. However, no general decrease in the religiosity of the overall church organization could be confirmed in the study. In conclusion, the study shows that the potential secularized nature of the University Church is not necessarily perceived as negative by students. Instead, the University Church has the potential to become a hybrid institution, bridging the gap between the religious and the secular sphere at Swedish universities.

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Mullins, William E. "The Higher Education Chaplain within a Post-Secular Context: A Case Study of Providing a Religious and Spiritual Reality on a 21st Century Campus." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1500296246788403.

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Macarthur, Melvyn John. "From Armageddon to Babylon a sociological-religious studies analysis of the decline of the Protestant prison chaplain as an institution with particular reference to the British and New South Wales prisons from the penitentiary to the present time /." Connect to full text, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/675.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Sydney, 2004.
Title from title screen (viewed 5 May 2008). Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Dept. of Sociology and Social Policy, Faculty of Arts. Degree awarded 2004; thesis submitted 2003. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print form.

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Sproul, Michael D. "Building believers and reaching unbelievers in a young, mobile, and ethnically diverse community through the use of small groups a model for the military chaplain /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 1995. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p066-0003.

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Mello, Walter Pereira de. "O CAPELÃO MILITAR: INTERLOCUTOR ENTRE A RELIGIÃO E A GUERRA." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Goiás, 2011. http://localhost:8080/tede/handle/tede/860.

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Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-27T13:48:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 WALTER PEREIRA DE MELLO.pdf: 2523864 bytes, checksum: 6ab77387bc2a7eb8cfb1ab7b7e66129a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-06-30
Esta pesquisa tem o objetivo de investigar a importância do Capelão Militar como interlocutor entre a religião e a guerra, a partir do texto fundante das leis da guerra registrado no livro bíblico de Deuteronômio 20,1-4. No decorrer da pesquisa procurase responder o porquê da guerra depender permanentemente da legitimação religiosa a tal ponto de necessitar da presença e atuação de um sacerdote na função de capelão militar. Por meio de uma análise qualitativa baseada na história, nas definições e conceitos, nas causas e consequências da guerra, busca-se comprovar a hipótese de que o anseio pelo sagrado é inerente a todos os povos e o reconhecimento pela sua dependência absoluta do sagrado é intrínseco a todo ser humano e, que a presença do sacerdote como capelão militar faz-se determinante como interlocutor, sobretudo no ambiente hostil de combate, entre o crente e o sagrado e vice-versa. A partir da análise da história das guerras nas páginas da Bíblia Sagrada e do posicionamento do cristão diante da guerra, averigua-se a relação entre a religião e a guerra. Finalmente, fundamentada na historiografia da assistência religiosa aos militares desde o descobrimento do Brasil até os dias contemporâneos, procura-se compreender o processo de transição da função do sacerdote de ontem ao capelão militar atual e a importância da atuação desses representantes do sagrado junto aos combatentes de guerra.

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Bull, Alister William. "The insights gained from a portfolio of spiritual assessment tools used with hospitalised school-aged children to facilitate the delivery of spiritual care offered by the healthcare chaplain." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2013. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/4529/.

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A Spiritual Assessment Tool (SAT) for use with a child by a healthcare chaplain, requires a clear conceptual construct in order to convey a child’s spiritual profile to other professionals. The design of the tool, allied to the manner in which a chaplain engages with a patient, allows a child to easily share information which can be interpreted in terms of this construct. This thesis creates a new and accessible conceptual framework to describe the spirituality of children in a paediatric setting. It achieves this through the design and development of a portfolio of sorting cards and storyboards, referred to as a Spiritual Assessment Tool (SAT). The SAT encourages children to share information about their healthcare journey which is then interpreted in terms of the new framework. In addition, it identifies the competences required by a healthcare professional to obtain and interpret this information. In doing so, it necessarily discusses the wider implications of the theological insights which arise. The research involved the filming of interviews conducted with children aged between 6 and 13 years old in an acute paediatric healthcare setting. During these interviews sorting cards depicting different aspects of the children’s lives were used in conjunction with storyboards, in order to discover how the children described their lives while in hospital. The design of the SAT developed through two distinct stages before reaching a final model that achieved the goals of this thesis In order to describe and share the information expressed with other healthcare staff, a framework was developed to enable interpretation of how a child constructs meaning. This framework required a terminology that could clearly communicate the complexities of how children understand the meaning of their lives in the context of the hospital setting. By engaging with child development theory and the data gathered from the interviews, the term “connectedness” was adopted to better encapsulate the conceptual construct of what had, in the past, been described as “childhood spirituality”. The term draws four dimensions from the field of child development which help professionals to profile a child’s perspective of their lives while in hospital:; the momentum of connectedness; the awareness of connectedness; the resilience of connectedness; and the evaluative nature of connectedness. These dimensions take account of the contextual disruption experienced by the children and the way in which their level of development contributes to the perspective of their lives while in hospital. The theological implications the concept of ‘connectedness’ and the methodology of its application underline the dynamics of the competences involved. These can be applied in integrated theological reflective practice. The “Zone of Proximal Connectedness” (ZPC) is used to describe the space of an encounter between a healthcare professional and a paediatric patient when four features are present; hospitality, liminality, the significant other, and the co-construction of meaning. The ZPC forms the foundation for gathering information that serves as the basis for better spiritual care. The research findings provide insight into the dynamics required for a healthcare chaplain to relate to a child and to engage in integrated theological reflective practice which relates to the ZPC. The nature of the encounter outlined in this thesis, requires the quality of ‘mutuality’ to be present between assessor and child. The nature of the encounter outlined in this thesis between an assessor and a child requires the quality of ‘mutuality’. The presence of the quality of mutuality in this context, reveals that inThe implications of mutuality reveal that in the Christian Faith our concept of God’s nature involves a greater sense of mutuality. The wider implications of this reflection for the Christian faith and our understanding of God, Jesus and the Church are identified as an area for future theological exploration.

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Bordat, Francis. "Chaplin cinéaste." Paris 10, 1992. http://www.theses.fr/1992PA100001.

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Chaplin ne fut pas qu'un clown de génie, mais aussi un grand cinéaste, ce que, paradoxalement, la critique lui reconnait le moins. Fondée sur une lecture magnétoscopique de ses quatre-vingts films, cette thèse met en valeur la créativité spécifiquement cinématographique du réalisateur (scénograhie, cadrage, découpage-montage, mouvements d'appareil, photo, son, musique) et montre comment la mise en scène conditionne la comédie, voire même le personnage. La première partie s'interroge sur l'intégrité des copies que nous voyons aujourd'hui, et propose une description statistique de l'oeuvre. La seconde évoque la dynamique motrice de l'oeuvre, effet de l'opposition de deux grands principes contradictoires, nommés "dépense Charlotienne" et "économie Chaplinienne". La troisième étudie dans la chronologie de l'oeuvre les "défis du cinéma" relevés par le cinéaste. La conclusion souligne deux caractères fondamentaux de l'art de Chaplin, qui d'un côté fut un des principaux artisans du "classicisme hollywoodien", mais de l'autre refusa de s'installer dans le confort de ses normes, préservant de la sorte entre le réel et ses représentations une tension permanente, garante de son indémodable modernité
Chaplin was not merely a great clown, but a great film maker, which, paradoxically, few critics acknowledge. Based on a complete screening of Chaplin's eighty films on VCR, this thesis emphasizes the director's creativity (framing, découpage-montage, camera movements, photography, sound, music), and demonstrates that the mise en scene conditions comedy, possibility the nature of Charlie himself. The first part reflects on the integrity of the prints now available, and offers a statistic description of the wole work. Part two brings into relief the dynamics of the work, shown to be the product of a conflict between two contradictory principles labeled "Charlie's spendiag" nad "Charles's economy". Part three is entitled "the challenge of cinema, and shows how Chaplin originally dealt with the evolving techniques of this medium. The conclusion underlines two major trends in Chaplin's art, arguing that although he may have been a major architect of Hollywood's classic style, he persistently refused to work comfortably within its norms. He thus preserved permanent tension between reality and its representation, which accounts for his everlasting modernity

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Rundell, Jack T. "The Chaplin craze : Charlie Chaplin and the emergence of mass-amusement culture." Thesis, University of York, 2014. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/7918/.

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This thesis explores the relationship between Charlie Chaplin’s early career and films (1914-1916) and the emergent mass-amusement culture of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in America. It combines empirical research into massamusement history with close readings of Chaplin’s early films in order to illuminate the close and previously minimally explored relationship between Chaplin’s filmmaking and popularity on the one hand, and the broader early twentieth-century history of mass-amusement culture on the other. The thesis approaches its subject through the specific phenomenon of amusement ‘crazes’. It takes three selectively illustrative examples – roller skating, popular dance forms and moving pictures – through which to explore the specific debates and controversies these amusements generated and the social and cultural aspirations and concerns that drove them. This cultural-historical research is used to re-read Chaplin films, enabling topical allusions and cultural subtexts to come newly into focus. It also provides the context for a fresh interpretation of Chaplin’s sensational rise to fame in the mid-1910s as a cultural phenomenon symptomatic of a wider landscape of contemporary frenetic and popular crazes. The thesis challenges two principal assumptions that underlie prevailing critical approaches to Chaplin’s early career, unquestioningly grounded, as they are, in the privileged status conventionally ascribed to his later, and better-known feature films. These assumptions are: (1) that Chaplin’s early films are chiefly of interest for the ways in which they teleologically anticipate later developments in his filmmaking; and (2) that Chaplin’s distinctive qualities and cultural value are always to be understood in qualitative contrast to the dominant imperatives of contemporary slapstick and the larger mass-amusement culture to which slapstick belonged. The thesis questions the accuracy and efficacy of critical approaches based on these assumptions, and argues, instead, for a more symbiotic, mutually dynamising relationship between early Chaplin and his cultural moment and milieu.

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Lewis, James R. "SPIRITUAL FITNESS AND RESILIENCE FORMATION THROUGH ARMY CHAPLAINS AND RELIGIOUS SUPPORT." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1447863288.

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Vedel, Düring Philip. "Islam på sjukhuset : En intervjustudie med representanter från den muslimska andliga vården i Sverige." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Religionshistoria, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-190466.

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Spiritual care in hospitals is a well-established practice in Sweden that is justified by religious freedom. Contemporary Sweden is a multicultural society with a culturally and religiously diverse population. Since 2006, a Muslim spiritual care organization has been established in co-operation with the Swedish state. This interview study with Muslim spiritual caregivers examines how Islam is being interpreted and how Muslim spiritual care in Swedish hospitals is apprehended by the informants. By approaching Islam as a discursive tradition and combining historical and ethnological methods, this study sheds light on what aspects of Islam are considered relevant in the hospital context and it examines why that is the case. The study shows that Muslim spiritual care is regarded to be a complement to other healthcare practices. To a large extent, the care is provided by supportive conversations, Islamic counseling, as well as help with religious practices and rituals. To manage a patient’s various wants and the denominational diversity, the Muslim representatives hold that they put the patient’s and the relatives’ needs and interpretations of Islam first. The study concludes that the representatives are spiritual care professionals that are loyal to the state and the secular institutions they serve. This involves staying true to ideals of cultural and religious pluralism and equality but also knowing that these principles are subordinated to the hospital’s rules. This constructs boundaries regarding how Islam is interpreted and has to be negotiated in the efforts of making Islam a natural part of the institution.

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Newitt, Mark Julian. "Ritual, pastoral presence, and character virtues in healthcare chaplaincy : a study of chaplains' support to bereaved parents following the in utero or neonatal death of their baby." Thesis, Durham University, 2013. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/7283/.

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This thesis sets out to understand better how chaplains can support bereaved parents following the death of their baby. Running parallel to this, with increasing demand for evidence-based practice, it aims to evidence the benefit of chaplaincy support and the unique skills of chaplains. The thesis is based on twelve semi-structured interviews with sixteen parents. These were analysed using a form of grounded theory and compared with the findings of related research. I argue that the root of all other spiritual need is the loss of control parents experienced. Alongside this theme I identify a loss of meaning, a loss of self worth, and a desire to do something in response to their loss. Although there is not a one size fits all response, the liturgy and ritual provided by chaplains helped counter spiritual distress. I propose that, alongside the ability to perform liturgy and ritual, chaplains are viewed as having authority in both religious and spiritual matters. As liturgy and ritual was appreciated in conjunction with the presence of the chaplain, I explore a virtue-based approach to chaplaincy and recommend the increased use of shadowing and mentoring. Drawing on Fowler’s Stages of Faith, I describe how some parents found greater religious faith or increased spiritual awareness as a result of their experience. I speculate that, in order to provide the best possible support to parents, chaplains need to exhibit the characteristics of Fowler’s stage 5. Chaplains have a richness of reflection and experience and I appeal to churches to engage more profoundly with them. I also recommend the continued employment of chaplains within hospitals and argue for the narrative voice to be valued in research. Contra to current NICE guidelines, I contend that parents should be offered the opportunity to see and hold their dead baby.

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Skramstad, Timothy K. "Creating policies and guidelines for the application process for prospective military chaplains from the Association of Free Lutheran congregations." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2003. http://www.tren.com.

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Pleizier, Theo. "Do Military Chaplains Preach?: Exploring Sermons for Soldiers by Protestant Military Chaplains in the Dutch Army." Institut für Praktische Theologie, 2019. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A36481.

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The practice of Military Chaplains has been studied from various angles (sociological, historical, ethical) except from an empirical homiletical perspective. What do military chaplains do when they preach, if ‘preaching’ is the correct label for their (religious) speeches. This paper provides a first introduction to study the actual sermons of military chaplains in order to contribute to homiletical theory. It presents the outline of a research design and presents some of its initial results. The paper is based upon 10 sermons by army and naval chaplains within the context of peacekeeping missions. Three concepts emerge from these data, focussing upon the homiletical activity of military chaplains. They redefine the liturgical conditions for preaching, they witness to sources of wisdom, and they dignify the individual soldier in the presence of Christ. The paper closes with a proposal to understand religious discourse in the military context by presenting a tentative typology that is based upon the ceremonial setting of discourse and its religious referentiality.

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Brown, Alison M. "Army chaplains in the First World War." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/2771.

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In 1914, Church leaders assumed that fighting men would require the ministrations of ordained clergymen close to the front line. The War Office Chaplains' Department had few plans for the deployment of chaplains beyond a general expectation that the Churches would be willing to release men for service as required. Army Officers seemed to have little warning about the arrival of chaplains to accompany their units and very few ideas about the role chaplains could be expected to fulfil once they had arrived. The chaplains themselves embarked on overseas service with no special training and very little guidance about the nature of the task ahead of them. They received very little support from the Chaplains' Department or their home church in the first months of the war. Left to carve out a role for themselves, they were exposed to an environment churchmen at home could not begin to comprehend. Many chaplains left diaries and letters, the majority of which have never been published. They provide a unique insight into life with the troops, seen through the eyes of men who owed their first allegiance to their Church rather than to the Army whose uniform they wore. Post-war criticism of chaplains has obscured the valuable contribution many clergymen made to the well-being of the troops and to the reform movement within the Church of England after the war. The files of the Archbishop of Canterbury also provide important information about the troubled relationships between chaplains and their Department and with Church leaders at home. In seeking to determine the nature of the chaplains' duties and responsibilities, this study attempts to discover why clergymen faced so much criticism and why even their own churches were sometimes alarmed by the views aired by serving chaplains.

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Ayler, Scott. "The evangelical chaplains in Bengal, 1786-1813." Thesis, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.683249.

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Wysomierski, Bradley Alan. "Understanding Compassion Fatigue Among Army Reserve Chaplains." Thesis, Piedmont International University, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10629211.

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The purpose of this project is to acquire and apply the knowledge found in understanding compassion fatigue in chaplains who are serving in the United States Army Reserves and hold a full-time civilian clergy position, into a workshop to provide a resource to assist chaplains to effectively cope with compassion fatigue. The research consisted of a combined qualitative and quantitative approach through completing a verbatim and a questionnaire on all ten participants. The results found those who experienced high amounts of compassion fatigue had poor self-care, aspects of burnout, and no one to process their feelings with after difficult counseling sessions.

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