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. 

Membership/membership renewals are now open – to join or renew your membership in IASC, please click on the MEMBERSHIP tab.

UPCOMING  JANUARY 2021 WEBINARS

Be watching for more information re: speakers and registration for live participation, to be announced this fall:

 

JANUARY 2021- TUESDAYS AT GMT-5 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.

Recordings from our summer 2020 series: “WHAT IS SPIRITUAL CARE IN LIGHT OF COVID-19 FROM DIFFERENT RELIGIOUS PERSPECTIVES?” are available below and are also available on our IASC facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/IASC-International-Association-for-Spiritual-Care-104549471307894.  

For more details re: our summer presenters, please see this flyer: IASC Webinars July-August 2020 flyer

 

Buddhist Perspectives, August 11, 2020:

Christian Perspectives, August 4, 2020 :

Jewish Perspectives, July 28, 2020:

Muslim Perspectives, July 21, 2020 :

 

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

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