A “stick to beat you with”?: Advocating for a critical close reading of ‘vocation’ among evangelical medics in England

Jennifer Riley

doi:10.1007/s10943-022-01564-y

A “stick to beat you with”? Advocating for a critical close reading of ‘vocation’ among evangelical medics in England

Jennifer Riley^* (Corresponding Author)

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Health Services Research Unit (HSRU)

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Abstract

Evangelical Christianity and healthcare work are two contexts in which vocation is often an important discourse. Exploring uses, understandings and implications of vocation for evangelical medics thus offers a rich opportunity to critically interrogate vocation from two important perspectives. In addition to identifying a three-tiered construction of vocation, on macro-, meso- and micro-levels, this paper suggests that to fully understand its manifestations among a sample of English evangelical medics, a critical, Weberian-style reading is valuable. This latter conclusion resonates with those drawn by scholars who extend a critical view across constructions of medical vocation more broadly, not least given concerns regarding workplace burnout.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	4096-4118
Number of pages	23
Journal	Journal of Religion and Health
Volume	61
Issue number	5
Early online date	9 May 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10943-022-01564-y
Publication status	Published - 1 Oct 2022

Bibliographical note

Funder: Arts and Humanities Research Council AH/L503927/1

Keywords

Evangelicalism
Vocation
Identity
Healthcare
Beruf
UK
England

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