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Carmen M. Schuhmann

Associate professor

Email
c.schuhmann@uvh.nl
Title
Dr.

Profile

Carmen Schuhmann (1970) is associate professor of Chaplaincy Studies at the University of Humanistic Studies. She holds a PhD in methematics from the University of Leiden (the Netherlands) and has worked as a researcher in the field of algebraic geometry at the University of Essen (Germany). After switching to humanistic studies, she worked for several years as a humanist prison chaplain. Her current research interests include: the relational and socio-political dimensions of meaning in life and spiritual care, moral injury and moral resilience, and chaplaincy in the military.

Expertise

  • Chaplaincy/pastoral care in a 'secular age'
  • Existential and moral resilience
  • Meaning in life as an orientation process in "moral space"
  • Military chaplaincy and chaplaincy in penitentiary institutions
  • Relational perspectives on counseling