Spiritual Guidance Across Religions: A Sourcebook for Spiritual Directors and Other Professionals Providing Counsel to People of Differing Faith Traditions

Today, interfaith training in spiritual direction and other ministry contexts is vital. Any working spiritual director can tell you,spiritual guidance professionals of every variety areseeing people from a wide array of faith traditions intheir practices often from traditions not their own.This comprehensive professional resourceoffers valuable information for how to providespiritual guidance to people from a wide variety offaith traditions. Covering the world's major faithtraditions as well as interfaith and eclectic traditions,each chapter in this groundbreaking compendiumis written by a spiritual guidance professionalfrom that tradition and provides:An overview of the tradition, including basicbeliefsMethods for spiritual guidance honored in thattraditionCommon spiritual problems encountered bypeople of that traditionCommon spiritual pitfalls in providing guidanceto people of that traditionTips, techniques and practicesHelpful resources for further learning