Shirley du Boulay
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Shirley du Boulay is an author and biographer, resident in Oxford
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She developed a career as a programme producer for the BBC
, specializing in religious programming, and retired from the BBC to work as an author. Her biographical subjects tend to be individuals who have taken a spiritual journey of their own, and whose subsequent influence has been important:
Other books:
Oxford
The city of Oxford is the county town of Oxfordshire, England. The city, made prominent by its medieval university, has a population of just under 165,000, with 153,900 living within the district boundary. It lies about 50 miles north-west of London. The rivers Cherwell and Thames run through...
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She developed a career as a programme producer for the BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
, specializing in religious programming, and retired from the BBC to work as an author. Her biographical subjects tend to be individuals who have taken a spiritual journey of their own, and whose subsequent influence has been important:
- Beyond the Darkness: A Biography of Bede GriffithsBede GriffithsBede Griffiths OSB Cam , born Alan Richard Griffiths and also known, by the end of his life, as Swami Dayananda , was a British-born Indian Benedictine monk who lived in ashrams in South India and became a noted yogi...
- Doubleday, 1998. ISBN 978-0385489461 - The Cave of the Heart: The Life of Swami AbhishiktanandaAbhishiktanandaAbhishiktananda was the name taken by the French Benedictine monk Henri le Saux, whose religious experience in India led him to become a bridge between Hindu and Christian spirituality.From childhood he seemed destined for a religious life and entered 'minor seminary' at the age of 11, becoming a...
- Orbis Books, 2007. ISBN 978-1570756108 - Teresa of AvilaTeresa of ÁvilaSaint Teresa of Ávila, also called Saint Teresa of Jesus, baptized as Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda y Ahumada, was a prominent Spanish mystic, Roman Catholic saint, Carmelite nun, and writer of the Counter Reformation, and theologian of contemplative life through mental prayer...
: An Extraordinary Life - Hodder & Stoughton, 1991. ISBN 978-0340518649 - TutuDesmond TutuDesmond Mpilo Tutu is a South African activist and retired Anglican bishop who rose to worldwide fame during the 1980s as an opponent of apartheid...
, Voice of the Voiceless - Eerdmans Publishing, 1988. ISBN 978-0802836496 - Changing the Face of Death: The Story of Dame Cicely SaundersCicely SaundersDame Cicely Mary Saunders, was a prominent Anglican, nurse, physician and writer, involved with many international universities...
- Religious and Moral Education Press, 2000. ISBN 978-1851752171 - Cicely Saunders: The Founder of the Modern Hospice Movement - SPCK Publishing, 2007. ISBN 978-0281058891
Other books:
- The Road to CanterburyCanterbury CathedralCanterbury Cathedral in Canterbury, Kent, is one of the oldest and most famous Christian structures in England and forms part of a World Heritage Site....
: A Modern Pilgrimage - Morehouse Group, 1995. ISBN 978-0819216458 - The Gardeners - Hodder & Stoughton, 1985.