Spiritual Book Club

A spiritual book club is a group of people who read books AbOUT the spiritual journey, then convene, either on-line or in person to talk about the insights they have gotten from the reading. Spirituality is defined as how a person lives out what she or he believes. A spiritual book club can be related to a specific religious tradition, but does not need to be confined to that one tradition. For instance, a spiritual book club could read spiritual books from just one tradition, like the Christian tradition, or the spiritual book club could read across a variety of traditions, from Sufi poet Jelaluddin Rumi, from Christian mystic Thomas Merton, and from Buddhist contemplative Thich Nhat Hahn for example. A spiritual book club gathers to learn more about the spiritual path, how to go deeper along that path, and what roads lead to that deeper travel.

[http://www.cpwr.org The Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions hosts events around the world that promote peace and understanding among the world's religions

[http://www.spiritualbookclub.com is an on-line resource for spiritual books, music, and links across religious and spiritual traditions

[http://www.pantagraph.com/articles/2006/10/01/life/doc450f037e665dc587375929.txt an on-going spiritual book club

[http://www.escapadebookclub.com/]is an on-going spiritual book club reading African American authors

http://bookclub.meetup.com/740/ is a "spiritual but not religious" book club in California