Spiritual Guidance Across Religions: A Sourcebook for Spiritual Directors and Other Professionals Providing Counsel to People of Differing Faith Traditions
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 • 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
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Book details
- Edited by
- Rev. John R. Mabry, PhD
- Imprint
- SkyLight Paths, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 400
- Formats
- Hardcover, Paperback
- Subjects
- Religion › Counseling
Religion › Leadership
Religion › Reference - Topics
- spiritual direction · interfaith counseling · world religions · religious counseling · comparative religion
- ISBN-13
- 9781594735462 (Hardcover)9781683363118 (Paperback)
About the author
REV. JOHN R. MABRY, PHD directs the interfaith spiritual direction certificate program at the Chaplaincy Institute in Berkeley and is adjunct faculty in the pastoral ministry program at Santa Clara University. His books include Faithful Generations: Effective Ministry across Generational Lines.
Mabry is a United Church of Christ minister and pastor of Grace North Church in Berkeley, California.
