HarperCollins 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century

Given by HarperCollins

98 Works 388,592 Books 4,669 Reviews 4.1
This list was compiled by Philip Zaleski and published in November 1999. All books on the list had to be published in English for the first time in the twentieth century.
Year Awarded:
1999
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Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres (1904) af Henry Adams
In the Heart of the Seas (1934) af Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Meditations on the Tarot: A Journey into Christian Hermeticism (1985) af Anonymous
Alcoholics Anonymous (1939) af Alcoholics Anonymous
Seeing the Form (The Glory of the Lord : a Theological Aesthetics) (1982) af Hans Urs von Balthasar
Saving the Appearances: A Study in Idolatry (1957) af Owen Barfield
The Epistle to the Romans (1918) af Karl Barth
The Diary of a Country Priest (1936) af Georges Bernanos
The Cost of Discipleship (1937) af Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Letters and Papers from Prison {original edition} (1951) af Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Jeg og du (1923) af Martin Buber
Tales of the Hasidim (1949) af Martin Buber
Pesten (1947) af Albert Camus
Spiritual Letters (1935) af John Chapman
Fritænkeri og Rettroenhed (1908) af G.K. Chesterton
Mount Analogue (1952) af René Daumal
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (1974) af Annie Dillard
The Way of All the Earth: Experiments in Truth and Religion (1972) af John S. Dunne
The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature (1946) af Loren Eiseley
The Myth of the Eternal Return: Or, Cosmos and History (1949) af Mircéa Eliade
Christianity and Culture (1939) af T. S. Eliot
Fire kvartetter (1943) af T. S. Eliot
Tavshed (1966) af Shūsaku Endō
The Pillar and Ground of the Truth: An Essay in Orthodox Theodicy in Twelve Letters (1994) af Pavel Florensky
Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth (1978) af Richard J. Foster
Man's Search for Meaning (1946) af Viktor Frankl
An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth (1957) af Mahatma Gandhi
Magten og æren (1940) af Graham Greene
The Golden String: An Autobiography (1955) af Bede Griffiths
The Lord (1937) af Romano Guardini
The Reign of Quantity & the Signs of the Times (1945) af René Guénon
Meetings with Remarkable Men (1963) af G. I. Gurdjieff
Markings (1963) af Dag Hammarskjöld
Fred er vejen (1991) af Thich Nhat Hanh
God in Search of Man : A Philosophy of Judaism (1955) af Abraham Joshua Heschel
The Sabbath (1951) af Abraham Joshua Heschel
Siddhartha : en indisk legende (1945) af Hermann Hesse
The Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins (1918) af Gerard Manley Hopkins
Den evige filosofi : (Philosophia perennis) (1944) af Aldous Huxley
My Guru and His Disciple (1709) af Christopher Isherwood
Religøse erfaringer (1902) af William James
Crossing the Threshold of Hope (1994) af John Paul II
Journal of a Soul: The Autobiography of Pope John XXIII (1964) af Pope John XXIII
Erindringer, drømme, tanker (1962) af C. G. Jung
A Testament of Devotion (1941) af Thomas R. Kelly
Dharma bums : roman (1958) af Jack Kerouac
I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World (1992) af Martin Luther King, Jr.
Enthusiasm (1950) af Ronald Arbuthnott Knox
Think on These Things (1964) af Jiddu Krishnamurti
The Love of Learning and The Desire for God: A Study of Monastic Culture (1900) af Jean Leclercq
Det er kristendom (1952) af C. S. Lewis
Prins Caspian (1951) af C. S. Lewis
And There Was Light: Autobiography of Jacques Lusseyran, Blind Hero of the French Resistance (1963) af Jacques Lusseyran
The Spiritual Teaching of Ramana Maharshi (1972) af Ramana Maharshi
Raissa's Journal (1974) af Raissa Maritain
Knivens æg (1944) af W. Somerset Maugham
New Seeds of Contemplation (1961) af Thomas Merton
The Seven Storey Mountain (1948) af Thomas Merton
The Gospel of Thomas: The Hidden Sayings of Jesus (1992) af Marvin W. Meyer
Something Beautiful for God: Mother Teresa of Calcutta (1971) af Malcolm Muggeridge
Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux (1932) af John G. Neihardt
Taking on the Heart of Christ: Meditations and Devotions (1976) af John Henry Newman
Christ and Culture (1951) af H. Richard Niebuhr
The Nature and Destiny of Man: A Christian Interpretation (1943) af Reinhold Niebuhr
Wise Blood (1952) af Flannery O'Connor
The Idea of the Holy (1917) af Rudolf Otto
In Search of the Miraculous: Fragments of an Unknown Teaching (1949) af P. D. Ouspensky
The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth (1978) af M. Scott Peck
Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book (1983) af Walker Percy
Zen og kunsten at vedligeholde en motorcykel (1974) af Robert M. Pirsig
The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (1942) af Ramakrishna
Zen Flesh, Zen Bones: A Collection of Zen and Pre-Zen Writings (1957) af Paul Reps
Duino Elegies (1923) af Rainer Maria Rilke
The Star of Redemption (1921) af Franz Rosenzweig
The Candle of Vision (1918) af George William Russell
The Autobiography of Saint Therese of Lisieux: The Story of a Soul (1899) af Saint Thérèse of Lisieux
Mystical Dimensions of Islam (1975) af Annemarie Schimmel
Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism (1941) af Gershom Scholem
A Guide for the Perplexed (1977) af E. F. Schumacher
The Transcendent Unity of Religions (1984) af Frithjof Schuon
The Collected Stories (1982) af Isaac Bashevis Singer
Verdens religioner (1958) af Huston Smith
The Thirteen Petalled Rose: A Discourse On The Essence Of Jewish Existence And Belief (1980) af Adin Steinsaltz
Essays in Zen Buddhism (1953) af Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind (1970) af Shunryu Suzuki
Gitanjali (1910) af Rabindranath Tagore
The Phenomenon of Man (1955) af Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Den enkle vej (1995) af Mother Teresa
The Courage to Be (1952) af Paul Tillich
The Lord of the Rings (1954) af J. R. R. Tolkien
Centuries (1908) af Thomas Traherne
Meditation og spirituel materialisme : vejen uden håb og frygt (1973) af Chogyam Trungpa
Practical Mysticism (1914) af Evelyn Underhill
Waiting for God (1951) af Simone Weil
Night (1956) af Elie Wiesel
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965) af Malcolm X
Collected Poems (1974) af W. B. Yeats
En yogis selvbiografi (1946) af Paramahansa Yogananda

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