Bridgebuilders
Subtitle: a workplace chaplaincy
By: Malcolm Torry
Contributors: Industrial Mission Association
Publisher: Canterbury Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Norwich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9781848250369
Subjects: Military chaplains; Industrial Chaplains; Church work with the working class; Business; Christianity; Employees; Religious life
Description: "Malcolm Torry tells the stories of the movement's origins, starting with the first record of priests in a place of work--on board naval ships in the reign of Henry VIII. He traces the established church's often tenuous relationship with the working classes and the profound changes in that relationship that occurred during World Wars 1 and 2. Following the subsequent growth of industrial mission, he explores how workplace chaplaincy today is facing the challenge of an increasingly secularized society."--Back cover.
Notes: An index for the book can be found on the Industrial mission history website: www.industrialmissionhistory.org.uk.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-205).
Table of contents: title: Secularization; title: Navvies and soldiers: the early evolution of workplace chaplaincy; title: Over the bridge: South London during and after the Second World War; title: Dialogue at depth: Sheffield during and after the Second World War; title: The secular sixties: institutional change in the early 1960s; title: Tensions: the Sheffield crisis of the mid-'60s and its aftermath during the '70s; title: Issues: strikes, unemployment, and the pursuit of justice; title: Survival: diversity and decline during the 1990s; title: Chaplains for everyone: chaplaincy in the new millennium's plual world.