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, Ph D • Måns Broo, Ph D • Rev. Cathleen Cox, MAT, MDiv • Ervad Soli P. Dastur • Karen L. Erlichman, MSS, LCSW • Jonathan Figdor, MDiv • Rev. John A. Jillions, Ph D • Siri Kirpal Kaur Khalsa • Rev. Daijaku Judith Kinst, Ph D • Ozgur Koca • Bruce Lescher, Ph D • Rev. Ann Llewellyn Evans • Rev. Dr. Jim Lockard • Rev. John R. Mabry, Ph D • Fr. Scott Mc Carthy, DMin • Moojan Momen, MB, BChir • Wendi Momen, Ph D • Richard K. Payne, Ph D • Susan S. Phillips, Ph D • James Michael Reeder, LCPC, CPRP • Robert A. Rees, Ph D • Bharat S. Shah, MD • He Feng Dao Shi • Joshua Snyder • Rev. N. Graham Standish, Ph D, 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
Зміст
Introduction ix
Rev. John R. Mabry, Ph D
Native Traditions
As Spirit Walks among Us: Insights into the Spiritual Culture of the African Diaspora 3
Chief Luisah Teish
Spiritual Guidance in Native American Religion 16
Fr. Scott Mc Carthy, 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, Ph D
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, Ph D, and Richard K. Payne, Ph D
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, Ph D
Muslims and Spiritual Guidance 218
Ozgur Koca
Spiritual Guidance in the Bahá’í Faith 231
Wendi Momen, Ph D, and Moojan Momen, MB, BChir
Christian Denominations
Spiritual Guidance in Eastern Orthodox Christianity 247
Very Rev. John A. Jillions, Ph D
Spiritual Direction in the Roman Catholic Tradition 262
Bruce Lescher, Ph D
Spiritual Guidance and the Reformed Tradition 275
Rev. N. Graham Standish, Ph D, MSW
Spiritual Guidance in the Evangelical Christian Tradition 289
Susan S. Phillips, Ph D
Spiritual Guidance in Mormonism (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints) 303
Robert A. Rees, Ph D
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, Ph D
Про автора
Christopher Titmuss, a former Buddhist monk in Thailand and India, teaches awakening and insight meditation around the world. He is the founder and director of the Dharma Facilitators Programme and Mindfulness Training Course (MTC). He gives retreats, participates in pilgrimages (yatras), and leads dharma gatherings. Christopher has been teaching annual retreats in Bodh Gaya, India, since 1975 and has led an annual dharma gathering in Sarnath, India, since 1999. A senior Dharma teacher in the West, he is the author of numerous books, including Light on Enlightenment, Buddhist Wisdom for Daily Living, and Mindfulness for Everyday Living. A campaigner for peace and other global issues, a poet, and a writer, he is also the co-founder of Gaia House, an international retreat center in Devon, England. He lives in Totnes, Devon, England. Among his websites are www.insightmeditation.org and www.christophertitmuss.org.
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