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 2019 letter to the membership, click here: Member Letter 2019.

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I am a founding member of IASC because today’s increasingly mobile and interconnected world demands that caregivers from a wide spectrum of professions gain competency an interdisciplinary, intercultural and interreligious care. IASC fills a unique role in providing a forum for serious, academic study of theologies and belief systems across faith traditions in the service of care for suffering that integrates spirituality and attends to issues of “ultimate concern” – mind, body, and spirit together.

Prof. Dr. Pamela Cooper–White, Union Theological Seminary, New York

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