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 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, PhD
Muslims and Spiritual Guidance 218
Ozgur Koca
Spiritual Guidance in the Bahá'í Faith 231
Wendi Momen, PhD, and Moojan Momen, MB, BChir

Christian Denominations
Spiritual Guidance in Eastern Orthodox Christianity 247
Very Rev. John A. Jillions, PhD
Spiritual Direction in the Roman Catholic Tradition 262
Bruce Lescher, PhD
Spiritual Guidance and the Reformed Tradition 275
Rev. N. Graham Standish, PhD, MSW
Spiritual Guidance in the Evangelical Christian Tradition 289
Susan S. Phillips, PhD
Spiritual Guidance in Mormonism (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints) 303
Robert A. Rees, PhD

Interfäth, Human¿st, And Eclect¿c Trad¿t¿ons
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, PhD