Abstract
Workplace chaplaincy has been a sustained institutional approach to the relationship between religion and a secular world. This chapter tells some of the story of workplace chaplaincy in the UK; discusses the Christian churches’ institutional involvement in the Thames Gateway, and particularly with its workplaces; and describes examples of relationship-building between the churches and workplaces in Germany and the USA. The chapter concludes that the Church has found mediating institutions useful as it has attempted to relate to industry and commerce, recognises that chaplaincy is a particularly significant mediating institution, discusses organisational forms that have been found helpful, and encourages the churches to establish effective mediating institutions, and particularly workplace chaplaincies.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Bibliography
Alinsky, Saul. 1971. Rules for radicals: A pragmatic primer for realistic radicals. New York: Random House.
Billis, David. 1993. Organising public and voluntary agencies. London: Routledge.
Church of England, 1918. Christianity and industrial problems, being the report of the archbishop’s fifth committee of inquiry. London: SPCK.
Citizens UK. 2015. www.citizensuk.org/what_we_do. Accessed 26 Nov 2015.
Cuttell, Colin. 1962. Ministry without portfolio. London: Toc H.
Erlander, Lillemor. 1991. Faith in the world of work: On the theology of work as lived by the French worker-priests and British industrial mission. Uppsala: Uppsala University.
Fox, Michael. 2008a. The receiving community. In Building utopia? Seeking the authentic Church for new communities, ed. Laurie Green and Christopher R. Baker, 23–39. London: SPCK.
Graf, Arnie. 2015. Community organising and blue labour. In Blue labour: Forging a new politics, ed. Ian Geary and Adria Pabst, 71–83. London: I.B. Taurus.
Hamnett, Chris. 2003. Unequal city: London in the global arena. London: Routledge.
Mantle, John. 2000. Britain’s first worker-priests. London: SCM Press.
Perrin, Henri. 1965. Priest and worker: The autobiography of Henri Perrin (translated and with an introduction by Bernard Wall). London: Macmillan.
Reiss, Robert. 2013. The testing of vocation: 100 years of ministry selection in the Church of England. London: Church House Publishing.
Ross, Donald M. 1997. God It’s Monday. Edinburgh: St. Andrew’s Press for the Scottish Churches Industrial Mission.
South Yorkshire Workplace Chaplaincy. 2015. www.sywc.org.uk. Accessed 18 Dec 2015.
Spittles, David. 2015. The new world in Zone 2: Olympicopolis. Evening Standard, 18 November 2015, pp. H&P 6–7.
Torry, Malcolm. 2010. Bridgebuilders: Workplace chaplaincy—A history. Norwich: Canterbury Press.
Wickham, E.R. 1957. Church and people in an industrial city. London: Lutterworth Press.
——— 1964. Encounter with modern society. London: Lutterworth Press.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Copyright information
© 2016 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Torry, M. (2016). Mediating Institutions Between Religion and the Workplace. In: Mediating Institutions. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-94913-7_2
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-94913-7_2
Published:
Publisher Name: Palgrave Macmillan, London
Print ISBN: 978-1-349-94912-0
Online ISBN: 978-1-349-94913-7
eBook Packages: Business and ManagementBusiness and Management (R0)