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:
Dan Mendelson Aviv, PhD - Mans 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 - Baha'i Faith - Sikhism - Shinto - Humanism - New Thought - Zoroastrianism - Native American Religion - African Diaspora Spirituality - Daoism - Jainism - Confucianism