Het buitenkerkelijke succes van de christelijke zielzorg

Auteurs

  • Kees de Groot Tilburg School of Catholic Theology

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54195/RS.12115

Samenvatting

This article considers contemporary spiritual care in the Netherlands as the result of a development that started off with ecclesial initiatives. Through ecumenical cooperation, establishing a common professional organization, and initiating specialized training trajectories, priests, pastoral workers, ministers, rabbis, and humanistic counsellors have contributed to the development of a separate profession: spiritual care. Often these ‘new style’ chaplains work outside their own denomination. What started as an ecclesial service to patients, soldiers, and inmates has evolved into a new, precarious profession, sometimes only loosely connected with organized religion. Rather than an instance, however, of secularization or of a spiritual revolution, this persistence of the care of souls is regarded as a successful dissemination of the ecclesial tradition in the secular domain against the background of liquid modernity.

Biografie auteur

  • Kees de Groot, Tilburg School of Catholic Theology

    Kees de Groot is socioloog en theoloog, universitair docent aan Tilburg School of Catholic Theology en redacteur van Religie & Samenleving.

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Gepubliceerd

01-10-2017

Citeerhulp

de Groot, K. (2017). Het buitenkerkelijke succes van de christelijke zielzorg. Religie & Samenleving, 12(2/3), 143-159. https://doi.org/10.54195/RS.12115