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Spiritual autobiography is a genre of non-fiction prose that dominated Protestant writing during the seventeenth century, particularly in England, particularly that of Dissenters. The narrative generally follows the believer from a state of damnation to a state of grace; the most famous example is perhaps John Bunyan 's Grace Abounding (1666).
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The title "My spiritual autobiography" may be a little misleading, for in some ways the book does not resemble an autobiography. [4] The book identifies three characteristics – his compassionate motivation, lack of self-importance and flexibility of mind – while showing the internal coherence of the Dalai Lama's views in their temporal ...
The spiritual autobiography of Madre María de San José (1656-1719) Madre María de San José, was an Augustinian Recollect nun in the Convent of Nuestra Señora de la Soledad in Oaxaca, Mexico. In this work she described the thirty-one years she spent living on her family's rural hacienda, focussing on her twenty-one year struggle to gain ...
A 1920 photograph published in Autobiography of a Yogi, showing Yogananda attending a religious congress upon his arrival in the United States. In 1999, Autobiography of a Yogi was designated one of the "100 Most Important Spiritual Books of the 20th Century" by a panel of theologians and luminaries convened by HarperCollins publishers. [4]
The Face Before I Was Born: A Spiritual Autobiography (1997, 2nd Edition 2009 with new Introduction and Epilogue) Catching the Thread: Sufism, Dreamwork, and Jungian Psychology (1998) The Circle of Love (1999) Love is a Fire: The Sufi's Mystical Journey Home (2000) The Signs of God (2001) Working with Oneness (2002) Light of Oneness (2004)
The Knee Of Listening is a "spiritual autobiography" by Adi Da (born Franklin Jones), a spiritual teacher who authored more than 75 books during his life, including those published posthumously. [1] The book was originally published in 1972, when Adi Da was 33, and was subtitled "The Early Life and Radical Spiritual Teachings of Franklin Jones".
While An Alarm adheres to many of the conventions of Quaker spiritual autobiographies, its tone is that of what one critic describes as "a woman always emotionally on edge". [1] Jill Lepore of The New Yorker writes, "The only book that year [1709] written by a woman, it's twenty-two pages long, and Bowers spends a good three of them apologizing ...