The Higher Education Chaplain within a Post-Secular Context: A Case Study of Providing a Religious and Spiritual Reality on a 21 st Century Campus

The purpose of this study is to examine the lived experience of the higher education chaplain. The reason for this study is that many students attribute importance to religious and/or spiritual quests. The study is a qualitative reflexive case study of three institutions that employ higher education chaplains. The goal of the study is to better understand the role the chaplain plays in a student's undergraduate experience. The lived experience of the chaplain is examined through a phenomenological lens of care within the current postsecular moment. The postsecular describes a renewed collaboration between the secular and spiritual worldviews within the larger culture and higher education.