International Association for Spiritual Care

IASC is an association with the aim to foster interfaith, intercultural, and international exchange in the fields of research and practice of Spiritual Care. Its members are researchers, practitioners, and other interested parties who are involved in Spiritual Care.  To read the IASC Board’s 2020 letter to the membership, click here: IASC Member Letter May 2020

NEW!  UPCOMING WEBINARS

For more details re: presenters, please see this flyer:

IASC Webinars July-August 2020 flyer

For Webinar registration go to https://www.eventbrite.com/e/spiritual-care-in-light-of-covid-19-from-different-religious-perspectives-tickets-111910938630

The webinars are free, but require pre-registration to participate in the live Zoom discussion.  (Each webinar is limited to 100 live Zoom participants for each separate date, so register soon!)

*All webinars will also be livestreamed and recordings will be made available after each livestream on our IASC facebook page:  https://www.facebook.com/IASC-International-Association-for-Spiritual-Care-104549471307894.

Summer 2020 and January 2021:

SUMMER 2020 – TUESDAYS AT GMT-4* for approx. 1 hour & 45 minutes
“What Is Spiritual Care in Light of COVID-19 from the Perspectives of Different Religious Traditions?” 
JULY 21 – Islam
JULY 28 – Judaism
AUGUST 4 – Christianity 
AUGUST 11 – Buddhism

*U.S. 9:00 a.m. west coast; 12 noon east coast; 13:00 Sao Paolo; 16:00 Accra; 17:00 p.m. London; 18:00 Bern/Berlin; 19:00 Jerusalem; 1:00 a.m. Tokyo  For another time zone see https://greenwichmeantime.com/time-gadgets/time-zone-converter/.

 
JANUARY 2021- TUESDAYS AT GMT-4* for approx. 1 hour & 45 minutes

 “What Is Spiritual Care from the Perspectives of Our Different Professions?” 

JANUARY 5 – Medicine and Nursing
JANUARY 12 – Public Health
JANUARY 19 – Psychology
JANUARY 26 – Pastoral and Spiritual Care/Seelsorge
Our aim is to bring speakers to share their perspectives, and to join in
collaborative conversation with our IASC members, and then to publish the proceedings of these webinars, with the members’ input from the discussions, as the first volume of our Journal of Interreligious Spiritual Care in 2021.
These webinars are free, so please mark your calendars and spread the word!  Zoom links will be provided upon registration on Eventbrite.

Note: This web site is always being updated. Please be patient as we add new information and check back with us often!

 

Pasqualina Perrig-Chiello

Spiritual Care as a new hybrid multidisciplinary and multiprofessional field needs to be defined and established on a scientific, as well as on a professional level. IASC will bundle synergies toward the shared goal of recognizing Spiritual Care by academics and practitioners.

Prof. Dr. phil. Pasqualina Perrig-Chiello, University of Bern

In increasingly multicultural societies, spiritual care contributes in significant ways to a holistic understanding of suffering humans. Its interdisciplinary and interreligious foundations have to be further developed.

Prof. Dr. em. theol. et phil. Christoph Morgenthaler, Universiy of Bern