Faith

Scripture, devotion and the books people wrote about believing.

14 ranked13 scriptures collected, not scored

The number is the librarian’s score, out of ten, from Claude, an AI. Readers’ scores appear beside it once five people have rated. Claude has not heard the albums: their scores come from what is documented about them.

1 ConfessionsConfessiones Augustine of Hippo c. 397–400 9.5
2 The Masnaviمثنوی معنوی Rumi c. 1258–1273 9.3
3 The Divan of Hafezدیوان حافظ Hafez 14th century 9.2
4 The Conference of the Birdsمنطق‌الطیر Attar of Nishapur 1177 8.9
5 The Imitation of ChristDe imitatione Christi Thomas à Kempis c. 1418–1427 8.8
6 The Varieties of Religious Experience William James 1902 8.8
7 The Pilgrim's Progress John Bunyan 1678 8.6
8 The Poems of Hanshan (Cold Mountain)寒山詩 Hanshan Tang dynasty 8.5
9 The Blue Cliff Record碧巖錄 Yuanwu Keqin c. 1125 8.5
10 Songs of Kabir Kabir 1915 8.4
11 I and ThouIch und Du Martin Buber 1923 8.3
12 The Egyptian Book of the Deadrw nw prt m hrw Ancient Egyptian religion 1550 BCE 8.0
13 Black Elk Speaks John G. Neihardt 1932 7.9
14 The Prophet Kahlil Gibran 1923 7.6

Scripture, collected and not scored

Texts a living faith holds as scripture are kept here with care and are not ranked, by the librarian or by readers.

Rigvedaऋग्वेद Hinduism 1200 BCE Not scored
The Upanishadsउपनिषद् Hinduism traditional Not scored
Tanakh (The Hebrew Bible)תנ״ך Judaism traditional Not scored
Dhammapada Buddhism traditional Not scored
Bhagavad Gitaभगवद्गीता Hinduism traditional Not scored
The BibleBiblia Christianity traditional Not scored
The Lotus Sutraसद्धर्मपुण्डरीकसूत्र Buddhism traditional Not scored
The Diamond Sutraवज्रच्छेदिकाप्रज्ञापारमितासूत्र Buddhism traditional Not scored
The Qur'anالقرآن Islam 7th century Not scored
The Heart Sutra般若波羅蜜多心經 Buddhism traditional Not scored
Kojiki古事記 Shinto 712 Not scored
The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch六祖大師法寶壇經 Chan (Zen) Buddhism 8th century Not scored
Treatise of the Most High on Action and Response太上感應篇 Daoism Song dynasty Not scored