Spiritual Guidance Across Religions

Zusatztext "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) Informationen zum Autor 87169255 Klappentext A unique approach to understanding the faith traditions of the world and enriching your spiritual counsel. This comprehensive professional resource approaches a wide array of faith traditions from a perspective that blends theology, history and an understanding of the common spiritual practices in each faith. Zusammenfassung 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 Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 164Dan Mendelsohn Aviv, PhD, has been engaged in Jewish learning as an educator, lecturer, professor, and published scholar for almost twenty years. Having spent three years creating an alternative model for informal education, he recently returned to his greatest passion, classroom instruction. He is also an itinerant blogger at http://thenextjew.com, an inchoate podcaster, MacBook zealot, and most important, a proud spouse and father of three.

Måns Broo, PhD, is senior lecturer at the Department of Comparative Religion, Åbo Akademi University, Finland. His research interests include Caitanya Vaishnava ritual practices, modern middle-class Hinduism, and issues of agency and identity within modern yoga practices. He is also editor of the award-winning Finnish yoga magazine Ananda.

Rev. Cathleen Cox, MAT, MDiv, is a Unitarian Universalist minister and interfaith spiritual director. Her ministry encompasses both a private practice serving individuals and life partners and an outreach ministry exploring best practices for spiritually grounded growth and development in congregations, religious communities, and service-oriented organizations nationwide. Her passion is companioning others in the creation of joyful, meaning-centered lives and work that offer our best gifts in service to the world. Her community ministry is affiliated with the Unitarian Universalist Church of Berkeley. Contact her at http://www.revcat.net.

Ervad Soli P. Dastur was born as the last of eleven children in the small village of Tarapur, India, to a priestly family from Udwada. Soli was admitted to the M. F. Cama Athornan Institute boarding school to complete his priestly studies as well as high school. During his nine years at the boarding school, Soli completed all the requirements for becoming Navar and Martab and was initiated as a priest in the Holy Iranshah Atash Behram in Udwada. He had to also pass the final examination of Saamel required by all initiated priests from Udwada to be able to perform all inner and outer liturgies. Soli is fully retired and lives with his wife of forty-eight years, Jo Ann, in University Park, Florida. He performs religious ceremonies all over Florida and the rest of the United States. He is an avid tennis player and dabbles with the computer in his free time.

Karen L. Erlichman, MSS, LCSW, provides psychotherapy, spiritual direction, supervision, and mentoring in San Francisco, California. Karen is a core faculty member in the Spiritual Guidance Program at Sofia University in Palo Alto, California, as well as an adjunct faculty member at the Starr King School for the Ministry and the Chaplaincy Institute for Arts and Interfaith Ministries. Karen is passionate about creating diverse and welcoming spaces for exploring identity, spirituality, and community. To find out more about Karen, visit her website: http://www.karenerlichman.com.

Rev. Ann Llewellyn Evans is a Shinto priestess, trained and licensed by Tsubaki Kami Yashiro, one of the oldest Shinto shrines in Japan. She has helped introduce Shinto to North America through her involvement with Tsubaki Shrine of America in Granite Falls, Washington, through the Bright Woods Spiritual Center in Canada, and through publication of Shinto Norito: A Book of Prayers, an English translation of traditional Shinto prayers.

Jonathan Figdor, MDiv, is the Humanist chaplain at Stanford University, where he organizes events and programs for both students and community members from the San Francisco Bay Area. Figdor and his work have been discussed in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Huffington Post, and the San Francisco Chronicle. He received his BA with honors in philosophy from Vassar College and holds a master's degree in Humanism and interfaith dialogue from Harvard Divinity School. A transplanted New Yorker, he lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area in California.

The Very Reverend John A. Jillions, PhD, has been the chancellor of the Orthodox Church in America since late 2011. Previously, he served parishes in Australia, England, Canada, and the United States. He was a founding director and first principal of the Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies in Cambridge, England, until 2014, and was an associate professor at the Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies at St. Paul University in Ottawa, Canada.

Siri Kirpal Kaur Khalsa is a practicing Sikh, the founder of an interfaith worship organization, and the author of Sikh Spiritual Practice: The Sound Way to God. She has spoken about Sikhism on tele…