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Papers by Wendy Cadge

International Journal of Maritime History, 2018

Religious people and organizations have provided services to seafarers in the port of Boston for ... more Religious people and organizations have provided services to seafarers in the port of Boston for nearly 200 years. While Boston’s history and present circumstances are specific, the port’s services to seafarers are broadly representative of the history of such provision in ports across the United States. We show how local and global economic changes shaped who worked in the port of Boston. Protestant individuals and organizations provided services to these workers, although the motivation behind the services and their content changed. The overt evangelism of the first generations diminished as mission societies transitioned into religiously-motivated social service organizations. Comprehensive social services and lodging were replaced by services provided on board vessels during increasingly quick turnarounds. While today’s port chaplains describe their work in much different terms than those of generations past, they continue a tradition of Protestant-supported care that has been e...

Learning and Teaching, 2021

This article describes one approach to flipping an introductory sociology course. To encourage st... more This article describes one approach to flipping an introductory sociology course. To encourage students to practice ‘doing’ sociology, we designed a flipped classroom that included a ‘pay to play’ model, small group work and an emphasis on active learning during class time. With this course design, we linked in-class active learning with outside prework so that students could engage with critical sociological concepts and apply those concepts in practice. With this flipped design, the instructors observed that students were deeply engaged with the course topics and expressed positive perceptions of their learning and growth over the semester. As the landscape of university instruction shifts, this course design model may assist instructors looking to foster active and engaged learning remotely.

The concept of detached concern,as proposed by Renee Fox inEx- periment Perilous (1959),is often ... more The concept of detached concern,as proposed by Renee Fox inEx- periment Perilous (1959),is often used in the literature today in a way she did not intend. Rather than viewing detachment and concern as dualities,scholars frequently conceive of them as dichotomous,emphasizing detachment over concern.We reconsider detach- ed concern here through the stories 37 intensive-care nurses told about their most memorable patients.While many described efforts to keep emotionally distant from patients,they also expressed concern for patients they felt connected to,especially those who were a first for them,who were long-term primary patients,who surprised them, or who died.The care nurses provide for these patients is shaped sociologically by their training and institutional contexts and is not an aberration or indicative of their losing control of their feelings. Instead, it is evidence of the dual nature of detached concern and of the importance of viewing the concept as describing more than e...

Journal of Pastoral Care & Counseling: Advancing theory and professional practice through scholarly and reflective publications, 2021

The aim of this study was to understand how chaplains delivered spiritual care to staff during th... more The aim of this study was to understand how chaplains delivered spiritual care to staff during the Covid-19 pandemic. The researchers analyzed data collected from an International Survey of Chaplain Activity and Experience during Covid-19 (N = 1657). The findings revealed positive changes that emerged and new practices evolved around the use of technology as useful tools for maintaining contact with staff.

Journal of Nursing Management, 2021

Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2020

Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy, 2019

Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy, 2020

Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy, 2018

Sociology of Religion, 2018

Hastings Center Report, 2017

Journal of medical ethics, 2017

Previous research has suggested that individuals who identify as being more religious request mor... more Previous research has suggested that individuals who identify as being more religious request more aggressive medical treatment at end of life. These requests may generate disagreement over life-sustaining treatment (LST). Outside of anecdotal observation, however, the actual role of religion in conflict over LST has been underexplored. Because ethics committees are often consulted to help mediate these conflicts, the ethics consultation experience provides a unique context in which to investigate this question. The purpose of this paper was to examine the ways religion was present in cases involving conflict around LST. Using medical records from ethics consultation cases for conflict over LST in one large academic medical centre, we found that religion can be central to conflict over LST but was also present in two additional ways through (1) religious coping, including a belief in miracles and support from a higher power, and (2) chaplaincy visits. In-hospital mortality was not d...

Critical Research on Religion, 2016

We reflect personally and historically on some of the institutions that have nurtured and shaped ... more We reflect personally and historically on some of the institutions that have nurtured and shaped conversations at the intersections of sociology and religious studies, particularly professional associations. Our argument is simple. The ways different scholars understand the relationship between the sociology of religion and religious studies have a lot to do with the institutions that nurtured us and through which we engage in the conversation. We push back on simple black and white distinctions that paint their approaches in oppositions: more historical vs. more contemporary, more qualitative vs. more quantitative, more concerned with normative concerns vs. more “objective”—in favor of a more nuanced view. We keep in mind the Christian origins of the main professional organizations at these intersections and call for deeper dialogue not just between sociologists and scholars in religious studies but with colleagues involved with a range of other groups.

Sociology of Religion, 2017

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 2017

Journal of Church and State, 2015

OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying, 2016

This article considers how parents constructed social identities for babies who died before, at, ... more This article considers how parents constructed social identities for babies who died before, at, or shortly after birth between 1992 and 2008 at Overbrook Hospital, a large academic medical center in the northeastern United States. We find that parents constructed their own and their children’s social identities through deeply embodied shared senses of physicality, through processes of naming, and with a deep awareness of what they imagined would be ongoing relations. For many, these ongoing relations took place with an eye toward heaven. We situate our findings in historical context and draw out their theoretical implications for contemporary scholarship.