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The groundbreaking professional resource for providing spiritual guidance to people from faith traditions other than your own.
This comprehensive resource offers valuable information for providing spiritual guidance to people from a wide variety of faith traditions. Covering the world's faith traditions as well as interfaith, blended and independent approaches to spirituality, each chapter is written by a spiritual guidance professional from that tradition or who works extensively with people from that tradition. Each chapter provides:
- An overview of the tradition, including basic beliefs
- Methods for spiritual guidance honored in that tradition
- Common spiritual problems encountered by people of that tradition
- Tips, techniques and practices
- Helpful resources for further learning
Contributors Include:
Dan Mendelson Aviv, PhD • Måns Broo, PhD • Rev. Cathleen Cox, MAT, MDiv • Ervad Soli P. Dastur • Karen L. Erlichman, MSS, LCSW • Jonathan Figdor, MDiv • Rev. John A. Jillions, PhD • Siri Kirpal Kaur Khalsa • Rev. Daijaku Judith Kinst, PhD • Ozgur Koca • Bruce Lescher, PhD • Rev. Ann Llewellyn Evans • Rev. Dr. Jim Lockard • Rev. John R. Mabry, PhD • Fr. Scott McCarthy, DMin • Moojan Momen, MB, BChir • Wendi Momen, PhD • Richard K. Payne, PhD • Susan S. Phillips, PhD • James Michael Reeder, LCPC, CPRP • Robert A. Rees, PhD • Bharat S. Shah, MD • He Feng Dao Shi • Joshua Snyder • Rev. N. Graham Standish, PhD, MSW • Chief Luisah Teish • Christopher Titmuss
Religions Covered:
By Estimated U.S. Population
Evangelical • Christianity • Roman Catholicism • Mormonism • Judaism • Reformed Christianity • Eastern Orthodox • Christianity • Islam • Buddhism • Hinduism • Spiritual Eclecticism • Unitarian Universalism • Neo-Paganism • Bahá'í Faith • Sikhism • Shinto • Humanism • New Thought • Zoroastrianism • Native American Religion • African Diaspora Spirituality • Daoism • Jainism • Confucianism
"Wonderful.... Opens the door to many historic and traditional paths.... Recommend[ed] to everyone I know in ministry and in spiritual counseling and direction."
—Rev. Tim Miner, OUnI, executive director, Council of Interfaith Communities of the United States
“Why did no one ever do this before? This is an excellent, trustworthy and needed resource for spiritual directors today!”
—Fr. Richard Rohr, OFM, Center for Action and Contemplation
“The first—possibly only—book of its kind! [A] remarkable ... resource [for] spiritual guides who aspire to serve ... in ever-more aware and relevant ways.”
—Rev. Lauren Van Ham, interfaith spiritual director and dean, Chaplaincy Institute
“The contemporary spiritual guide would do well to have this dynamic book as part of their collection and as on-going education in the field.”
—Anne Huffman, PhD, director, MA in Spiritual Guidance, Sofia University
“Finally, the go-to textbook that chaplains and spiritual directors ... deserve.... Goes deeper than the traditional who-what-why-when-where approach to world religions by focusing on spiritual care and healing.... It's full of gold.”
—Paul Chaffee, editor, The Interfaith Observer (TIO)
Introduction ix
Rev. John R. Mabry, PhD
Native Traditions
As Spirit Walks among Us: Insights into theSpiritual Culture of the African Diaspora 3
Chief Luisah Teish
Spiritual Guidance in Native American Religion 16
Fr. Scott McCarthy, DMin
Spiritual Guidance in Shinto: The Way of the Kami 35
Rev. Ann Llewellyn Evans
Spiritual Guidance in the Neo-Pagan Traditions 50
James Michael Reeder, LCPC, CPRP
Religions Originating in China
Spiritual Guidance in the Confucian Tradition 73
Joshua Snyder
Spiritual Guidance in Daoism 83
He Feng Dao Shi
Religions Originating in India
Spiritual Guidance in the Hindu Tradition 99
Måns Broo, PhD
The Buddha, Theravada Tradition, and Spiritual Guidance 109
Christopher Titmuss
Spiritual Guidance in Mahayana Buddhism
Zen (Chan/Son), Pure Land, Nichiren, and Vajrayana 129
Rev. Daijaku Judith Kinst, PhD, and Richard K. Payne, PhD
Guiding Jains, People of a Democratic Religion 146
Bharat S. Shah, MD
Spiritual Guidance in the Sikh Tradition 164
Siri Kirpal Kaur Khalsa
Religions Originating in the Middle East
Spiritual Guidance in the Zoroastrian Religion 183
Ervad Soli P. Dastur
Spiritual Guidance in the Jewish Community 201
Karen L. Erlichman, MSS, LCSW, with Dan Mendelsohn Aviv, PhD
Muslims and Spiritual Guidance 218
Ozgur Koca
Spiritual Guidance in the Bahá'í Faith 231
Wendi Momen, PhD, and Moojan Momen, MB, BChir
Christian Denominations
Spiritual Guidance in Eastern Orthodox Christianity 247
Very Rev. John A. Jillions, PhD
Spiritual Direction in the Roman Catholic Tradition 262
Bruce Lescher, PhD
Spiritual Guidance and the Reformed Tradition 275
Rev. N. Graham Standish, PhD, MSW
Spiritual Guidance in the Evangelical Christian Tradition 289
Susan S. Phillips, PhD
Spiritual Guidance in Mormonism (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints) 303
Robert A. Rees, PhD
Interfaıth, Humanıst, And Eclectıc Tradıtıons
Spiritual Guidance in Unitarian Universalism 329
Rev. Cathleen Cox, MAT, MDiv
Guiding Humanists 342
Jonathan Figdor, MDiv
Spiritual Guidance in New Thought—the American Metaphysics 361
Rev. Dr. Jim Lockard
Spiritual Guidance for Spiritual Eclectics 376
Rev. John R. Mabry, PhD