spiritual writings
Religious literary works
Spiritual writings are texts concerned with matters of the soul, religious experience, or inner life.
The category spans sacred scriptures, devotional poetry, mystical treatises, and contemplative reflections: She found comfort in spiritual writings during her illness.
The term often implies texts meant to nurture faith or deepen one's relationship with the divine, distinct from theological arguments or doctrinal instruction.
- QuranIslam's central scripture
- BibleChristian sacred writings
- holy bookSacred religious text
- sacred textsHoly religious writings
- Zend-AvestaZoroastrian sacred writings
Torah · Bhagavad Gita · Guru Granth Sahib · Book of Common Prayer · Psalms · prayer · contemplative prayer · Tao Te Ching · mysticism · Vedas · Dead Sea Scrolls · apocrypha · hagiography · Upanishads · midrash · meditation · spiritual practice · Kabbalah
- Christian Mysticismmystical union, divine union, contemplative life, dark night of the soul, mystical states
- religious livesconversion stories, desert fathers, church fathers, patron saints, holy women
- religious textsBible, scriptures, Bible translations, Gospels, Koran
- sacred textsBible, Vedas, Quran, Upanishads, Torah
- CarmelitesTeresa of Avila, John of the Cross, Mount Carmel, dark night of the soul, Carmel
- Catholic textsmissal, missals, catechism, catechisms, breviaries
spiritual writingstechnical manuals
Specialized instruction documents
financial reports · legal documents · corporate communications
spiritual writingsscientific literature
Formal research documentation
empirical research · peer-reviewed studies · laboratory reports