Wide Awake Housekeepers on Duty: The Institutional Logic of Compassion in a Faith-based Organization
This article examines the institutional logic of compassion as shaped and modified within a faith-based organization. The following research questions are addressed: How does the institutional logic of compassion emerge, and how is it shaped over time? The study involves a content analysis of archiv...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Universitetsforlaget
[2019]
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Nordic journal of religion and society
Year: 2019, Volume: 32, Issue: 1, Pages: 22-39 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Relief organization
/ Religious institution
/ Mitleidsethik
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| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion |
| Further subjects: | B
faith-based organizations
B Compassion B Institutional logic |
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| Summary: | This article examines the institutional logic of compassion as shaped and modified within a faith-based organization. The following research questions are addressed: How does the institutional logic of compassion emerge, and how is it shaped over time? The study involves a content analysis of archival sources, semi-structured interviews with managers and organizational members, and observations of a Norwegian faith-based healthcare organization. The composite nature of the institutional logic of compassion is revealed in the interplay between other logics, of professional care, the bureaucratic state and business-like health care. This article identifies the logic of compassion as constructed and conveyed by three complementary processes: institutional believing, material practicing and moral reasoning. Within this logic of compassion, the dominant process of personal faith has, over time, been modified and reintegrated, providing the organization with a broader and renewed connection with social and religious meaning making. |
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| ISSN: | 1890-7008 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Nordic journal of religion and society
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.18261/issn.1890-7008-2019-01-02 |