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Multifaith Chaplaincy in the Workplace

Multifaith Chaplaincy in the Workplace

Fiona Stewart-Darling

(2017)

Abstract

As the global marketplace grows and becomes more complex, increasing stress is placed upon employees. Businesses are acknowledging this change in work habits by adapting the work place to offer support through multifaith chaplaincy. Multifaith chaplaincy is based on developing relationships of trust between diverse faith communities and the public workplace. Through the experience of starting the first multifaith chaplaincy in Canary Wharf, the author offers insights into current conditions and challenges of chaplaincy in the business community.

Writing as an Anglican priest, Fiona Stewart-Darling shows the importance of chaplaincy teams drawing on different faith traditions. This book is an important contribution to the emerging debate around the role of chaplaincy in faith and business communities. This research will be of particular interest to those working in or setting up chaplaincies in different contexts such as hospitals, prisons, town centre chaplaincies working with businesses and business leaders, particularly those involved in diversity and inclusion in the workplace.


Contains a depth of understanding that combines sharp analysis of the complex coming together of faiths and workplaces in a global economy, facing the key issues (including the awkward ones), and offering wise ways through them.
David F. Ford, Regius Professor of Divinity Emeritus, University of Cambridge
Fiona Stewart-Darling worked in a parish ministry for three and a half years, before moving to be a university chaplain for ten years. She was assistant chaplain at Cheltenham & Gloucester College of Higher Education and the lead chaplain at the University of Portsmouth. She developed a workplace chaplaincy program from scratch with the global business community based in Canary Wharf, London.
A uniquely rich source of guidance for those on the journey to recognise and integrate faith more fully as a key ingredient in our working lives and in our capacity to contribute to society.
Sir David Walker, former Chairman of the Multi-faith Chaplaincy

Table of Contents

Section Title Page Action Price
Multifaith Chaplaincy in the Workplace: How chaplains can support organizations and their employees by Fiona Stewart-Darling 3
Acknowledgements 9
Introduction 11
1. Welcome to My World 17
2. Why We Still Need Workplace Chaplaincy 33
3. Multifaith Chaplaincy 55
4. The Role of Wisdom Alongside Ethics, Values and Culture 75
5. Understanding Mission in the Context of Chaplaincy 97
6. Why Faith Communities Need Chaplains and Why Chaplains Need Faith Communities 115
7. Where to from Here? 141
Appendix: The Golden Rule in Core Religious Texts 163
References 165
Further Reading 169
Endnotes 171
Index 173
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