Religion Under Bureaucracy:

مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Religion Under Bureaucracy: "
Winnifred Fallers Sullivan

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1079188
Doc. No	:	LA122817
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15685276-12341368‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Winnifred Fallers Sullivan
Title & Author	:	Religion Under Bureaucracy: [Article] : The u.s. Case\ Winnifred Fallers Sullivan
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Numen
Date	:	2015
Volume/ Issue Number	:	62/2-3
Page No	:	321–335
Abstract	:	This article outlines a shift in u.s. law about religion from constitutionally enforced separation to bureaucratic management of a naturalized religion. Administration of the chaplaincy of the Veterans Administration is used to illustrate this shift. Chaplains hired for government jobs such as those at the va are generally required to have three credentials: the Master of Divinity (M.Div.) degree from an accredited institution, a prescribed number of cpe (Clinical Pastoral Education) credits, and an ecclesiastical endorsement. Each of these credentials originated within mostly Protestant institutions but all have adapted over the last half century or so to function in a bureaucratic “multi-faith context.” The new “spiritual governance” exercised through the web of public-private partnerships that administer pastoral care is built on a human anthropology that assumes that humans are naturally spiritual, a governance that might be understood as a new form of religious “establishment.” This article outlines a shift in u.s. law about religion from constitutionally enforced separation to bureaucratic management of a naturalized religion. Administration of the chaplaincy of the Veterans Administration is used to illustrate this shift. Chaplains hired for government jobs such as those at the va are generally required to have three credentials: the Master of Divinity (M.Div.) degree from an accredited institution, a prescribed number of cpe (Clinical Pastoral Education) credits, and an ecclesiastical endorsement. Each of these credentials originated within mostly Protestant institutions but all have adapted over the last half century or so to function in a bureaucratic “multi-faith context.” The new “spiritual governance” exercised through the web of public-private partnerships that administer pastoral care is built on a human anthropology that assumes that humans are naturally spiritual, a governance that might be understood as a new form of religious “establishment.”
Descriptor	:	chaplains
Descriptor	:	Comparative Religion Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	General
Descriptor	:	History of Religion
Descriptor	:	law and religion
Descriptor	:	Religion Society
Descriptor	:	Religion in Antiquity
Descriptor	:	Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	Social Sciences
Descriptor	:	spiritual care
Descriptor	:	u.s. Constitution
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15685276-12341368‬