Mapping Spiritual Innovation
This Chaplaincy Innovation Lab webinar presents recent research mapping spiritual innovation efforts across the United States. Through semi-structured interviews with leaders of hundreds of spiritually innovative groups, the project examined how religious communities are reimagining their role amid the rise of so-called religious “nones”* and declining attendance at traditional religious services. The webinar identifies five genealogies of spiritual innovation and addresses critical challenges faced by innovators. The project provides essential insights into the transformation of contemporary American spirituality and the emerging spiritual infrastructure facilitating the future.
Learn more about this project here.
We have indexed this webinar to the following learning outcomes, which should not be construed as endorsement of this event by either ACPE or BCCI.
ACPE Category E: Professional Development – Outcome 5: Research-Based Care – Level IA – IA.25 – Demonstrate an awareness of how research is relevant to spiritual care.
ACPE Category E: Professional Development – Outcome 5: Research-Based Care – Level IIB – IIB.18 – Integrate relevant research into one’s practice of spiritual care.
BCCI Section IV: Organizational Leadership (OL): OL1 – Promote the integration of spiritual care into the life and service of the institution in which one functions.
BCCI Section IV: Organizational Leadership (OL): OL5 – Foster a collaborative relationship with community clergy and faith-group leaders.
This project was made possible with support from The Henry Luce Foundation, The John Templeton Foundation, Fetzer Institute, Hemera Foundation, Unitarian Universalist Association, and Wesleyan Impact Partners.
Hannah Petersen is a second-year PhD student in sociology at the University of Notre Dame, where she is also a graduate affiliate with the Center for Research on Educational Opportunity (CREO) and a Burns Fellow in the Program for Interdisciplinary Education Research (PIER). She is interested in understanding how people within organizations interpret and respond to organizational change. Hannah is a graduate of Hamilton College and completed a Fulbright English Teaching assistantship in Dobrich, Bulgaria. Before entering the graduate program at Notre Dame she worked as a sociology research specialist at the Chaplaincy Innovation Lab on both quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis.
