religious literature

Religious literature is a body of written works—such as scriptures, theological treatises, devotional texts, and spiritual narratives—created to express, interpret, and transmit the beliefs, practices, values, and experiences of a religious tradition.

Aliases (35)

• Christian literature ×17
• Christian devotional work ×7
• Jewish mystical text ×4
• Christian devotional literature ×3
• religious treatise ×3
• spiritual autobiography ×3
• Christian Science literature ×2
• Christian Science text ×2
• religious narrative ×2
• spiritual memoir ×2
• Christian religious text section ×1
• Christian testimony literature ×1
• Hindu literature ×1
• Hindu scripture genre ×1
• Islamic religious literature ×1
• Jewish religious literature ×1
• devotional literature ×1
• devotional text ×1
• poetic religious text ×1
• prophetic work ×1
• religious commentary ×1
• religious document ×1
• religious educational text ×1
• religious law text ×1
• religious speech ×1
• religious story ×1
• religious tale ×1
• religious text corpus ×1
• religious text genre ×1
• religious text section ×1
• religious work ×1
• spiritual book ×1
• spiritual reflections collection ×1
• spiritual text ×1
• spiritual treatise ×1

Instances (74)

• Binding of Isaac ("religious story")
• Puranas ("religious text genre")
• Dharmashastras ("religious law text")
• Arjuna Vishada Yoga ("religious text section")
• Spiritual Exercises ("Christian devotional work")
• Sefer Yetzirah ("Jewish mystical text")
• Etz Chaim ("Jewish mystical text")
• Zohar ("Jewish mystical text")
• ten plagues of Egypt ("religious narrative")
• Book of Wisdom ("poetic religious text")
• Sefer HaBahir ("Jewish mystical text")
• Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures ("Christian Science text")
• Miscellaneous Writings 1883–1896 ("Christian Science literature")
• No and Yes ("Christian Science literature")
• Rudimental Divine Science ("Christian Science text")
• A Confession ("spiritual autobiography")
• The Twelve ("prophetic work")
• Dnyaneshwari ("devotional text")
• St. John Climacus ("spiritual treatise")
• Dasbodh ("spiritual text")
• The Order of the Gospel ("religious treatise")
• "How Sweet the Sound: My Life with God and Gospel" ("spiritual memoir")
• Moses’ farewell speeches ("religious speech")
• A Call from Heaven ("religious work")
• Aggadah ("Jewish religious literature")
• A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections ("Christian devotional literature")
• Souls on Fire
• Wisdom Literature
• No Cross, No Crown ("Christian devotional work")
• Phillip Berman ("spiritual autobiography")
• Institutes of the Christian Religion ("Christian literature")
• Cur Deus Homo ("Christian literature")
• Passion narrative ("Christian religious text section")
• The Last Will and Testament of the Springfield Presbytery ("religious document")
• Hadith literature ("Islamic religious literature")
• Songs My Grandma Sang ("spiritual memoir")
• The Power of Love ("Christian literature")
• From Pearl Harbor to Calvary ("Christian testimony literature")
• Osiris myth ("religious narrative")
• On the Freedom of a Christian ("Christian literature")
• Footsteps of the Master ("devotional literature")
• Betty's Bright Idea ("religious tale")
• Woman in Sacred History
• Christian catechism ("religious educational text")
• Rule for Anchoresses ("Christian devotional work")
• The Book of Joy ("spiritual book")
• A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians ("religious treatise")
• Basilikon Doron ("religious treatise")
• Plea for the West ("religious commentary")
• De virginibus ("Christian literature")
• Plymouth Church sermons ("Christian literature")
• Lectures to Young Men
• Life of Constantine ("Christian literature")
• Markings ("spiritual reflections collection")
• Confessio ("spiritual autobiography")
• The Reformed Pastor ("Christian literature")
• A Christian Directory ("Christian literature")
• Of the Mortification of Sin in Believers ("Christian devotional work")
• The Doctrine of the Saints’ Perseverance Explained and Confirmed ("Christian literature")
• On Christian Doctrine ("Christian literature")
• Of Communion with God ("Christian devotional work")
• A Treatise of the Vocations or Callings of Men ("Christian literature")
• On the Priesthood ("Christian literature")
• Orations ("Christian literature")
• A Discourse of Conscience ("Christian literature")
• Life of Moses ("Christian literature")