Chaplaincy and Seafarers: Faith at Work

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Helen Sampson (Director, Seafarers International Research Centre, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University) Nelson Turgo (Research Associate, Seafarers International Research Centre, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University)

Chaplaincy and Seafarers

Faith at Work

Helen Sampson (Director, Seafarers International Research Centre, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University), Nelson Turgo (Research Associate, Seafarers International Research Centre, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University), Wendy Cadge (Barbara Mandel Professor of the Humanistic Social Sciences, Department of Sociology, Brandeis University) , Sophie Gilliat-Ray (Sophie Gilliat-Ray, Professor of Religious Studies, Department of Religious & Theological Studies, Cardiff University)

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Oxford University Press
18 July 2024

Comparative religion; Religious counselling; Transport industries

This book explores the faith, work, and lives of port chaplains and seafarers.

It draws on archive materials, fieldwork in ports and on cargo ships, and interviews with chaplains in the UK and overseas. The volume presents a detailed picture 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 describes the daily life and work of port chaplains, how they understand their roles in relation to their own faith, and how they manage their work in a multi-faith environment. In producing this rich account, the perspectives of relevant stakeholders and the historical underpinnings of port chaplaincy have also been considered, alongside the ways in which port chaplaincy compares with other forms of chaplaincy about which rather more has, hitherto, been known.

By: Helen Sampson (Director Seafarers International Research Centre School of Social Sciences Cardiff University), Nelson Turgo (Research Associate, Seafarers International Research Centre, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University), Wendy Cadge (Barbara Mandel Professor of the Humanistic Social Sciences, Department of Sociology, Brandeis University), Sophie Gilliat-Ray (Sophie Gilliat-Ray, Professor of Religious Studies, Department of Religious & Theological Studies, Cardiff University)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 240mm, Width: 162mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 468g
ISBN: 9780198913269
ISBN 10: 0198913265
Pages: 206
Publication Date: 18 July 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Helen Sampson is a Professor at the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University. She is the Director of the Seafarers International Research Centre. Nelson Turgo is a Research Associate at the Seafarers International Research Centre in the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University. Wendy Cadge is Barbara Mandel Professor of the Humanistic Social Sciences in the Department of Sociology at Brandeis University. Sophie Gilliat-Ray is Professor of Religious & Theological Studies at Cardiff University, and the Director of the Centre for the Study of Islam in the UK.

Reviews for Chaplaincy and Seafarers: Faith at Work

Chaplaincy and Seafarers is an invaluable contribution to the historiography of maritime people, not least as mobile subjects handling complex emotions. I hope that scholars working on the past, inspired by Bristol University's current project, 'Mariners: Religion, Race and Empire in British Ports, 1801-1914', will choose this account of the present as their starting point.2 This book will provide an eye-opening introduction to those new to thinking about how societies and carers cared for seafarers and their carers in the past. * , Jo StanleyInternational Journal of Maritime History *