Chaplaincy and Seafarers: Faith at Work

Sampson, Helen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5857-9452, Turgo, Nelson ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5508-7260, Cadge, Wendy and Gilliat-Ray, Sophie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8320-6853 2024. Chaplaincy and Seafarers: Faith at Work. Oxford University Press.

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Abstract

This book explores the faith, work, and lives of seafarers and port chaplains. These two groups of people are frequently overlooked by academics, as well as by members of wider society. Ports and ships are largely inaccessible to the public. As a result of their lack of visibility, many people are oblivious to the duties, needs, hopes, and aspirations of port chaplains and seafarers. This book therefore offers a rare insight into the life worlds of two little-known groups of workers. The book takes a broadly sociological approach and combines ethnographic and qualitative methodologies. It draws on the findings of a comprehensive study that was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. The research involved the analysis of archive materials, fieldwork in ports and on cargo ships, and interviews with chaplains in the United Kingdom, chaplains overseas, and stakeholder organizations. Using these sources, the text provides a detailed account of seafarers’ attitudes to working in mixed-faith crews, their understandings of their own faith and its role and negotiation in a life at sea, and their needs with regard to faith and more general welfare support. In addition, it details the daily life and work of port chaplains and explains how they understand their roles in relation to their own faith, as well as how they manage their work in a multi-faith environment.

Item Type:	Book
Book Type:	Authored Book
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Seafarers International Research Centre (SIRC) History, Archaeology and Religion
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
ISBN:	9780198913269
Funders:	ESRC
Last Modified:	29 Jul 2024 14:00
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/170553

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