IASC Publications

What is Spiritual Care?

Perspectives from Different Professions and Religious Traditions

Pamela Cooper-White / Claudia Kohli Reichenbach / Emmanuel Y. Lartey

What is Spiritual Care? The contributors to this volume offer fresh answers from perspectives of different caregiving professions (medicine, nursing, public health, psychology, pastoral care, and pastoral theology), different religious traditions (Islam, Judaism, Christianity, and Buddhism) and different cultural contexts. The cumulative impact of this work emphasizes that spiritual care is inseparable from larger efforts towards justice and peacemaking.

Pastoral and Spiritual Care Across Religions and Cultures

Isabelle Noth / Georg Wenz / Emmanuel Schweizer

Different religious and disciplinary perspectives discuss essential questions of interculturalism, interreligious and interdisciplinary exchange in the context of pastoral care, spiritual care, and counseling. Spiritual and pastoral care and counseling approaches from various world religions and continents are described.