Spiritual Care in our Multifaith World: A Primer on Practice and Theory

by Daniel Schipani

Publisher:

Wipf and Stock

, 2024

Across the helping professions, and as a compassionate response to human suffering, spiritual care is a special process of companioning. Furthermore, all forms of spiritual care always consist in connecting diverse wisdom traditions with care receivers' spiritual resources, longings, and struggles in socio-cultural and contextually pertinent ways. This book thoroughly explicates such understanding with interdisciplinary lenses. Its main purpose is to offer a comprehensive response to the new challenges and opportunities for excellent care presented by increasing cultural and religious-spiritual pluralization. Practical guidelines and case studies are connected with models of spirituality, spiritual toxicity and injury, communication strategies for engaging difference, patterns of caregiving work, and profiles of professional competence. In addition to offering an overarching orientation to the field, the contents of this book invite further reflection, dialogue, and collaboration among clinical pastoral education and psychospiritual therapy students and supervisors; chaplains, pastors and other religious caregivers; counselors; psychotherapists; and others interested in spiritual care in our multifaith world. It thus reflects the shared hope and, indeed, the expectation that spiritual care theory and practice across traditions and disciplines will continue to be enhanced in the days ahead.

Praise for Spiritual Care in our Multifaith World

“A vital contribution that places spirit at the very center of spiritual care. Schipani’s deeply informed and inclusive perspective is well-suited to an increasingly multi-faith world. He provides clear and compelling guidance to those involved in both interreligious and intrareligious care. A pleasure to read, this book is filled with rich clinical stories as well as much needed attention to individual and socio-political forms of toxic spirituality.”

—Kenneth I. Pargament, professor emeritus of psychology, Bowling Green State University



“I have known Daniel Schipani as a friend and colleague for years, and the passion I have experienced in conversations with him on intercultural pastoral care and spiritual care leaps from these pages. It was great to discover his analysis of SIPCC in the last chapter of the book. I would look at our organization a bit more critically, but I take his comments as encouragement to embrace the path he sets before us.”

—Dominiek Lootens, president, Society for Intercultural Pastoral Care and Counselling



“Given the religious and cultural pluralism of settings for spiritual care today, this book is an indispensable guide. Daniel Schipani brings together the wisdom of long international experience as a teacher and practitioner, weaving together illuminating case examples with carefully structured theological and clinical proposals for sensitive multi-faith care. Both comprehensive and accessible, this will be an important textbook for beginning chaplains and pastoral counselors, and, as well, an up-to-the-minute resource for seasoned caregivers.”

—Pamela Cooper-White, professor emerita of psychology and religion, Union Theological Seminary

Product Details

• Title: Spiritual Care in our Multifaith World: A Primer on Practice and Theory
• Author: Daniel Schipani
• Publisher: Wipf and Stock
• Print Publication Date: 2024
• Logos Release Date: 2024
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Ebook
• ISBNs: 9781666724233, 9781666731569, 1666731560, 9781666724226, 166672422X, 1666724238
• Resource ID: LLS:9781666724233
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-07-22T20:42:25Z

About Daniel Schipani

Finding ways for people to live wisely is a goal for Daniel as he draws on the wisdom of God and the transforming vision of the reign of God in his teaching and his practice of pastoral care and counseling. Prior to coming to AMBS in 1985, Daniel was associate professor of pastoral care and counseling at Evangelical Seminary of Puerto Rico for nine years. He lectures widely in North America, Latin America and the Netherlands and has written extensively in English and Spanish, including several recent works on pastoral and interfaith spiritual care. His research interests include intercultural hermeneutics and human formation and transformation processes. Daniel also serves as a pastoral counselor at a health clinic in Goshen, Ind., and provides supervision of pastoral counseling and chaplaincy students. “I view the church as God’s alternative community called to carry on Jesus’ liberating, healing, reconciling, and recreating ministry. As a living sign of divine love and wisdom in and for the world, the church celebrates, embodies, and witnesses to the reign of God in worship, community, and mission.Practical theology involves contextual and committed reflection on the life and ministry of the church, and on the process of formation and transformation of persons, families, and communities. I enjoy being engaged in such an endeavor in the intersection of the disciplines and fields of theology, pastoral psychology, and education.”