Praying with, praying for and praying on patients: Towards a Muslim practical theology in chaplaincy

Ali, Mansur ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3176-4746 2024. Praying with, praying for and praying on patients: Towards a Muslim practical theology in chaplaincy. Smith, Graeme and Todd, Andrew, eds. Future Faith: Public and Practical Theologies for the Contemporary World, Abingdon and New York: Routledge, pp. 124-138. (10.4324/9781003389743-12)

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Abstract

Over the last two decades, public institutions in Britain have begun to employ Muslim religious professionals as chaplains to provide pastoral care to hospital patients, prison inmates, students in Higher Education institutions, airports, shopping malls and the courts among other institutions. The role of the Muslim chaplain encompasses a range of pastoral, educational, advisory and religious dimensions, and they are called upon to work at the interface of both the private and public spheres. This chapter will explore some of the interviews collected from a three-year Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded project on Muslim chaplaincy based at Cardiff University, UK. It particularly reflects upon the way in which Muslim chaplains are using, reading and interpreting Islamic scripture in their pastoral work, thereby creating a form of practical theology, which is loosely modelled on Christian practical theology but is distinctively Islamic. The chapter is also an Islamic entry point into the debate about the place of scripture in pastoral practice. It is a Muslim response to Stephen Pattison's claim about the silence of the Bible (read scripture) in pastoral practice. The chapter ends with some reflections on Muslim practical theology.

Item Type:	Book Section
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	History, Archaeology and Religion
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BP Islam. Bahaism. Theosophy, etc B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BV Practical Theology B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BV Practical Theology > BV1460 Religious Education
Publisher:	Routledge
ISBN:	9781032466507
Last Modified:	21 Jan 2025 16:22
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/175240

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