In this conversation with Kristian Petersen, scholar Winnifred Fallers Sullivan discusses how the role of chaplains in the United States developed alongside understandings of the First Amendment. Chaplaincy, she argues, provides a legal solution to the fragile problem posed by the free exercise and establishment clauses in the Constitution.
Sullivan is the author of "A Ministry of Presence: Chaplaincy, Spiritual Care, and the Law" (University of Chicago Press, 2014, which won the American Academy of Religion's Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion in the analytical-descriptive studies category.
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