A Religion of One's Own
  • Published: 25 February 2015
  • ISBN: 9781592408849
  • Imprint: Avery
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $35.00

A Religion of One's Own

A Guide to Creating a Personal Spirituality in a Secular World

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From the bestselling author of the classic CARE OF THE SOUL and DARK NIGHTS OF THE SOUL, a guide to creating a personal spirituality in a secular world.

The New York Times bestselling author and trusted spiritual adviser offers a follow-up to his classic Care of the Soul. 
 
Something essential is missing from modern life. Many who’ve turned away from religious institutions—and others who have lived wholly without religion—hunger for more than what contemporary secular life has to offer but are reluctant to follow organized religion’s strict and often inflexible path to spirituality. In A Religion of One’s Own, bestselling author and former monk Thomas Moore explores the myriad possibilities of creating a personal spiritual style, either inside or outside formal religion.
 
Two decades ago, Moore’s Care of the Soul touched a chord with millions of readers yearning to integrate spirituality into their everyday lives. In A Religion of One’s Own, Moore expands on the topics he first explored shortly after leaving the monastery. He recounts the benefits of contemplative living that he learned during his twelve years as a monk but also the more original and imaginative spirituality that he later developed and embraced in his secular life. Here, he shares stories of others who are creating their own path: a former football player now on a spiritual quest with the Pueblo Indians, a friend who makes a meditative practice of floral arrangements, and a well-known classical pianist whose audiences sometimes describe having a mystical experience while listening to her performances. Moore weaves their experiences with the wisdom of philosophers, writers, and artists who have rejected materialism and infused their secular lives with transcendence.
 
At a time when so many feel disillusioned with or detached from organized religion yet long for a way to move beyond an exclusively materialistic, rational lifestyle, A Religion of One’s Own points the way to creating an amplified inner life and a world of greater purpose, meaning, and reflection.
  • Published: 25 February 2015
  • ISBN: 9781592408849
  • Imprint: Avery
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $35.00
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About the author

Thomas Moore

Thomas Moore was a monk in a Catholic religious order for twelve years and has degrees in theology, musicology and philosophy. A former professor of psychology, he is the author of Care of the Soul, Soul Mates, The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life, The Education of the Heart, The Soul's Religion and Original Self. He lives in New Hampshire with his wife and two children.

Visit the author's website at www.careofthesoul.net

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Praise for A Religion of One's Own


PRAISE FOR DARK NIGHTS OF THE SOUL

A fluent, unflaggingly honest style...Short on detail, long on evocation, this book conveys the important...message that spiritual growth entails darkness as well as light.

All of us go through troubled times, when we lie awake at night unable to sleep, wishing we had a comforting book to read. Now you do. DARK NIGHTS OF THE SOUL brings solace to the aching heart.

Thomas Moore is the master of conveying the insight that the dark times in our lives are not threats but friends and teachers.

PRAISE FOR CARE OF THE SOUL Many thanks to Thomas Moore for these profound and timely insights. ...Genuinely inspirational.

Invigorating, demanding, and revolutionary.

I soulfully recommend it without reservation.


PRAISE FOR THOMAS MOORE

There is the depth and originality of Mr. Moore's own observations...and a deeply consoling intelligence...that should draw many readers.

In these reductive and fundamentalist times, Thomas Moore asks us to question the workings of a sun-bright culture, which demands our happy, healthy productivity at perhaps the cost of our very soul.

Thomas Moore is one of the profound spiritual writers of our time. We've all been discouraged by neat, tidy self-help dogmatism, and Moore refuses to succumb to the commercialism of simplistic, superficial, and subjective solutions. Moore helps us see expectations and is always on the side of abundant life.

Thomas Moore is an authentic example of a new kind of therapist--a doctor of the soul--which in our century has been in short supply.

Thoughtful, elegant, inspiring.

PRAISE FOR THE HARDCOVER
When [Moore] is read closely, his depth is apparent...he stands to make some new converts to the noninstitutional ranks of spirituality.

[Moore's] counsel is consistently sensible and affirming. This book should appeal to many of the unchurched, as well as the faithful across traditions.

Practical suggestions for crafting one's own religion.

[Moore] offers a new vision of how seekers can fashion their own connection to the sacred out of the materials of ancient faiths and everyday life.

"[A Religion of One's Own] offers a new vision of how seekers can fashion their own connection to the sacred out of the materials of ancient faiths and everyday life."
--Psychology Today

"Practical suggestions for crafting one's own religion."
--Monadnock Ledger-Transcript

"[Moore's] counsel is consistently sensible and affirming. This book should appeal to many of the unchurched, as well as the faithful across traditions."
--Library Journal

"When [Moore] is read closely, his depth is apparent...he stands to make some new converts to the noninstitutional ranks of spirituality."
--Publishers Weekly