Spiritual Guidance Across Religions

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 CoveredBy Estimated U.S. Population: Evangelical Christianity Roman Catholicism Mormonism Judaism Reformed Christianity Eastern OrthodoxChristianity 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