Encountering ethical and other issues when shadowing Muslim chaplains

Gilliat-Ray, Sophie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8320-6853 2025. Encountering ethical and other issues when shadowing Muslim chaplains. Woodhead, Linda, Cadman, Louisa and Graham, Nicole, eds. Messy Methods in Researching Religion, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 135-145.

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Abstract

This chapter reflects upon the ethical, political, and personal aspects of qualitative research with religious communities. Drawing upon fieldwork experiences over nearly three decades, and research conducted with Muslim chaplains in particular, readers will gain some appreciation of the complexity, the rewards, and the challenges that are often bound up with sensitive qualitative research. This chapter considers the ethical and political issues associated with ‘getting in’, ‘getting on’, and ‘getting out’ of qualitative research. The employment of chaplains in prisons or hospitals provides a lens through which to look at a wide range of religious changes and trends in microcosm. Within the confines of a public institution, the practical implications of abstract theoretical debates about interreligious relations, multiculturalism, or the place of religion in society can often be seen clearly. As such, chaplaincy provides an excellent subject for exploration of the challenges of qualitative research.

Item Type:	Book Section
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	In Press
Schools:	Schools > History, Archaeology and Religion
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BJ Ethics B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BL Religion B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BP Islam. Bahaism. Theosophy, etc
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
ISBN:	9780199687893
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Last Modified:	20 Feb 2025 15:45
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/175564

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