Sharma, Sonya;
Reimer-Kirkham, Sheryl;
(2023)
Exploring racism and racialization in the work of healthcare chaplains: a case for a critical multifaith approach.
Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy
, 29
(3)
pp. 307-319.
10.1080/08854726.2023.2209462.
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Abstract
The global COVID-19 pandemic has revealed healthcare settings as sites of much-needed scrutiny as to the workings of racism and racialization in shaping healthcare encounters, health outcomes, and workplace conditions. Little research has focused on how healthcare chaplains experience and respond to social processes of racism and racialization. We apply a critical race lens to understand racism and racialization in healthcare chaplaincy, and inspired by Patricia Hill Collins, propose a “critical multifaith approach.” Drawing on research in healthcare in Canada and England, we generated four composite narratives to analyze racialization’s variability and resistances employed by Indigenous, Arab, Black, and White chaplains. The composites disclose complex intersecting histories of colonialism, religion, race, and gender. Developing a critical multifaith perspective on healthcare delivery is an essential competency for chaplains wanting to impact the systems in which they serve in the direction of more equitable human flourishing.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Exploring racism and racialization in the work of healthcare chaplains: a case for a critical multifaith approach |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/08854726.2023.2209462 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/08854726.2023.2209462 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2023 The Author(s). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent. |
| Keywords: | Chaplains, healthcare, intersectionality, multifaith, racialization, racism |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Social Research Institute |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10169585 |
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