W Cadge

Dados Biográficos

ID19087
NOMEW Cadge
PRENOMESW
SOBRENOMECadge
ASSINATURACADGE W
AFILIAÇÕESBrandeis University
ORCID0000-0003-1713-5449
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS98
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES546
TOTAL COMO AUTOR97
TOTAL COMO EDITOR1
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2002
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2026
ÍNDICE H12

  • Conceptualizing spiritual care in the U.S. through chaplain activities in research

    Open AccessKelsey B White, Naana Adjei et al.ARTICLEJournal of Health Care Chaplaincy2026

    Healthcare chaplaincy has advanced toward establishing a more universally recognized professional identity. However, the profession lacks a comprehensive definition of what constitutes spiritual care. We conducted a sub-analysis of a larger scoping review of the existing spiritual care literature to further conceptualize spiritual care activities according to published research and from various clinical settings in the United States. This sub-ana…

  • Perspectives from early-career healthcare chaplains on the strengths and weaknesses of their clinical pastoral education and graduate degrees

    Open AccessDavid W Fleenor, Beth L Muehlhausen et al.ARTICLEJournal of Health Care Chaplaincy2026

    This study investigated the educational experiences of early-career healthcare chaplains (ECHCs) to identify their perceptions of the strengths and weaknesses of their academic and clinical training. We conducted an online survey with fixed-choice and open-text questions, gathering data from 288 ECHCs. Their responses revealed substantial gaps between traditional academic programs, such as the Master of Divinity (M.Div.) degree, and the competenc…

  • A Research Note on the Relinquished Properties of Houses of Worship in the Greater Boston Region, 2000–2022

    Open AccessAmy Lawton, W Cadge et al.ARTICLEJournal for the Scientific Study…2026

    This research note describes the process we used to identify and build a dataset of closed houses of worship in greater Boston. Using multiple strategies to gather and cross‐check data, we compiled a list of 169 houses of worship that closed between 2000 and 2022. If the property had been formally relinquished, we were able to gather a wealth of specific details from the deeds of sale. We describe the 131 properties that sold during this time per…

  • Expanding the Path

    Open AccessAmy Lawton, B Horowitz et al.ARTICLESociology of Religion2025

    Chaplaincy, traditionally a Christian concept, has evolved into the interfaith practice of spiritual care. This article describes how Jewish chaplains, the first non-Christian religious minority group in the United States to work as chaplains, adopted and adapted chaplaincy as a distinctly interfaith form of religious leadership. Jewish chaplains paved the way for other religious minority groups to serve as chaplains—a key part of the broader tra…

  • Interactions with chaplains

    Amy Lawton, W Cadge et al.ARTICLEJournal of Contemporary Religion2025

  • The changing shape of support in the work of port chaplains

    Open AccessW Cadge, N Turgo et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Maritime…2025

    This article draws on historical and ethnographic data from port chaplains working with the Mission to Seamen/Seafarers in the United Kingdom in the 1950s and 2010s to chart a shift in the shape of that work. Relationships with seafarers are at the core of the work in both decades. This work is described through individual support for seafarers, work around death, support for community-building, and religious gatherings and events. While there is…

  • How does the American public interact with chaplains? Evidence from a national survey

    Amy Lawton, W Cadge et al.ARTICLEJournal of Health Care Chaplaincy2024

    How does the American public understand the term chaplain? What fraction interact with chaplains and in what settings? What is the content of those interactions and do care recipients find them valuable? We answer these questions with data from a nationally representative survey (N = 1096) conducted in March 2022 and interviews with a subset (N = 50) of survey recipients who interacted with chaplains. We find that people in the United States do n…

  • American Afterlives

    Open AccessW CadgeARTICLESociology of Religion2024

    Journal Article American Afterlives: Reinventing Death in the 21st Century. SHANNON LEE DAWDY Get access American Afterlives: Reinventing Death in the 21st Century. SHANNON LEE DAWDY with images by Daniel Zox. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021, 246 pp.; $27.95. Wendy Cadge Wendy Cadge Brandeis University, USA [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1713-5449 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Schola…

  • Which U.S. Congregational Leaders Also Work as Chaplains? A National Overview

    Open AccessW Cadge, Amy Lawton et al.ARTICLEReview of Religious Research2024Referências: 8

    Historically, congregational leaders did the work of chaplaincy. In the past century, the professions have diverged and chaplaincy has diversified in form and function. We ask which congregational leaders currently also serve as chaplains to identify the extent of overlap between these two types of religious leaders in the contemporary United States. We analyze data from the National Survey of Religious Leaders (NSRL), a nationally representative…

  • What Counts as Religion? A Study of Federal Endorsing Agencies as Hiring Gatekeepers

    Open AccessGrace Tien, W CadgeARTICLELabor Studies Journal2024Referências: 8

    What counts as religion, and does the state perpetuate labor stratification on the basis of religion? The labor stratification literature suggests that employers often perpetuate gendered, racial, and socioeconomic inequality in hiring, but in this case study of state-appointed endorsing agencies, findings suggest that the federal government—a primary chaplain employer—perpetuates stratification by religion. Given the institutional separation of …

  • What Can Chaplains Teach About Cross-Cultural Religious Literacy

    W CadgeARTICLEThe Review of Faith & International…2024Referências: 4

    This essay considers how chaplains embody the core tenets of cross–cultural religious literacy. This work begins with empathy and humility and in its ideal supports individuals and institutions in their mission driven work. Every day chaplains and spiritual care providers work across many axes of difference, ideally embodying the mutual engagement which builds mutual respect, mutual reliance, and resilience. This essay provides a brief descriptio…

  • "Ministry of Presence" as Emotional Labor

    Open AccessAmy Lawton, W CadgeARTICLEReligions2024Referências: 25

    This paper analyzes the work of chaplaincy and spiritual care from the perspective of care recipients. Chaplains call their work a "ministry of presence," a term of art that is often unclear to many who are not chaplains. How else might we conceptualize "presence" in order to ground it in the social science literature? Using sociological theory, we show that care recipients may experience a chaplain's work as emotional labor, specifically "other-…

  • Chaplains of Color

    W Cadge, Barbara Savage et al.ARTICLEJournal of Health Care Chaplaincy2023

    From the gallows and fields of war to the street and bedside, chaplains of color have been present and instrumental in providing spiritual and emotional support in public and private settings across the United States. Their histories and experiences are not well documented and integrated into the field of spiritual care and chaplaincy, a field often understood as predominantly White, male, and Christian. This article introduces this special issue…

  • Racial burdens in the work experiences of state-supported Black chaplains

    W CadgeARTICLEJournal of Health Care Chaplaincy2023

    To understand and improve the experiences of Black chaplains, it is essential to consider how they experience and are integrated into their workplaces. This article draws from interviews with ten Black chaplains in the military and prisons. In light of historic, state-sanctioned, discrimination in these institutions, we ask how these chaplains experience their workplaces racially. All experience racial burdens in the workplace as part of being th…

  • ‘Here today, gone tomorrow’

    Open AccessSophie Gilliat-Ray, Graeme Smith et al.ARTICLEJournal of Beliefs and Values2023

    This paper documents the findings of an ESRC-funded project about religion in the context of the international global shipping industry, with particular focus on the work of port chaplains. We describe the physical, emotional, spiritual and financial risks involved in port chaplaincy work, and the way this form of religious employment is distinctly gendered. But the risks and challenges of port chaplaincy are considered alongside its intrinsic re…

  • Relying on the Kindness of Strangers

    Open AccessN Turgo, W Cadge et al.ARTICLEJournal of Contemporary Ethnography2023

    Seafarers who call into ports usually hope for, or anticipate, a visit from people who provide them with welfare services—from SIM cards and mobile top-up vouchers to religious or nonreligious reading materials, and free transport to the nearest seafarers’ center or shopping mall. In seafarers’ centers, seafarers can normally use free internet facilities, enjoy drinks from the bar, avail themselves of remittance services, and if they wish, practi…

  • American Jewish Chaplains

    Open AccessB Horowitz, W Cadge et al.ARTICLEContemporary Jewry2023

    This article represents the first field-wide treatment of American Jewish chaplains. As fewer Jews, like members of all religious backgrounds in the USA, are religiously affiliated and regularly join or participate in local congregations, Jews and other Americans will likely find ways to address their spiritual–religious needs outside of congregational life, in settings such as hospitals, military, universities, elder care, and other settings whe…

  • The work of port chaplains

    Open AccessW Cadge, N Turgo et al.ARTICLEJournal of Contemporary Religion2023Referências: 5

    Seafarers have long interacted with religious figures in addition to the merchants, government officials, and members of the public they meet when ships come into port. Today these religious figures are primarily Christian chaplains who provide material and spiritual assistance in ports around the globe. This article extends research about the interactions between port chaplains and seafarers by asking—for the first time—how seafarers experience …

  • How Organizational Leaders Negotiate Religious Differences

    Open AccessCarolina P Seigler, W CadgeARTICLEJournal of the American Academy…2023Citada por: 1Referências: 43

    The religious composition of the United States is rapidly shifting. As institutions and their stakeholders negotiate the needs of an increasingly diverse public, leaders of national chaplaincy organizations offer insight into how actors can effectively understand and engage matters of religious pluralism. This article identifies two distinct institutional frameworks (“mandate” and “interpersonal care”) that provide chaplaincy leaders with differe…

  • The Persistence of Religion as a Master Status for Chaplains

    Open AccessAmy Lawton, W CadgeARTICLEReview of Religious Research2023Referências: 29

    The chaplain's role, as perceived by chaplains, is well-studied. The ways in which care-recipients understand the chaplain's role is not. This article analyzes interviews with 38 people who interacted with chaplains. We find that respondents understood the chaplain's job to be multidimensional. We describe this multidimensionality through a "jobs to be done" framework showing that chaplains offer social listening, emotional comfort, and functiona…

  • Nonreligious Chaplains and Spiritual Care

    Open AccessAmy Lawton, Adah Anderson et al.ARTICLEReligions2023Citada por: 3Referências: 14

    Spiritual care in a religiously plural society necessarily includes care for the nonreligious. However, little is known about the nonreligious people who themselves work to provide spiritual care. Today, spiritual care providers, better known in the United States context as chaplains, come from a wide variety of religious backgrounds, including nonreligious or unaffiliated with religious tradition. While nonreligious chaplains have robust plurali…

  • From 'Civilian Clergy to Officer

    Open AccessGrace Tien, W CadgeARTICLESociology of Religion2023Referências: 38

    This article asks how people hired into federal chaplaincy positions are trained on the job. We find that unlike those hired into positions based on education, knowledge, and skills to date, chaplains are hired-by design-without some of the skills required for the job. Employers do not expect hired chaplains to understand organizational norms and practices, and so we identify strategies like inculcation and embodiment that employers use to help c…

  • Training Spiritual Caregivers

    W Cadge, Beth Stroud et al.CHAPTERSituating Spirituality2022

    This chapter explores graduate theological education as a field that produces both discourses of spirituality and the professionals who provide what is increasingly called “spiritual care.” As taught in chaplaincy programs, the case of spiritual care illustrates how “spirituality” is produced by religious institutions in a pragmatic effort to train chaplains for work in the secular institutions that employ them. The chapter shows how, based on th…

  • Chaplaincy and Spiritual Care in the Twenty-First Century

    W Cadge, Shelly RamboBOOKChaplaincy and Spiritual Care in…2022

    Wendy Cadge and Shelly Rambo demonstrate the urgent need, highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic, to position the long history and practice of chaplaincy within the rapidly changing landscape of American religion and spirituality. This book provides a much-needed road map for training and renewing chaplains across a professional continuum that spans major sectors of American society, including hospitals, prisons, universities, the military, and nur…

  • Susan E. Myers-Shirk, Helping the Good Shepherd

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