Recommended Reading (A - Z): Religion and Religious Criticism

 

Anonymous. Terrorist Hunter. 2003.


Asbridge, T. The First Crusade: A New History: The Roots of Conflict between Christianity and Islam. 2005.


Bawer, B. While Europe Slept. 2006.


Boyer, P. When Time Shall Be No More: Prophesy Belief In Modern American Culture. 1992.


Boyer, P. Religion Explained. 2002.


Briggs, R. Witches and Neighbors: The Social and Cultural Context of European Witchcraft. 2002.


Burr, WH. Self-Contradictions of the Bible. 1860.


Carroll, J. Constantine’s Sword: The Church and the Jews—A History. 2001.


Dacey, A.. Secular Conscience: Why Belief Belongs in Public Life. 2008.


Davies, N. Human Sacrifice: In History and Today. 1981.


Dawkins, R. The God Delusion. September 18, 2006.


Dawkins, R. A Devil’s Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and LoveR. 2004.


Dawood, N. J., Trans. The Koran. 1956.


Dennett, D. Breaking the Spell. 2006.


Dershowitz, A. Blasphemy: How the Religious Right is Hijacking. 2007.


Ehrman, B. Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why. 2007.


Ellens, J.H. (Ed.). The Destructive Power of Religion: Violence in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam [4 volumes]. 2004.


Goldberg, M. Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism. April 9, 2007.


Gorenberg, G. The End of Days. March 15, 2002.


Harris, L. The Suicide of Reason: Radical Islam’s Threat to the West. 2007.


Hill, F. A Delusion of Satan: The Full Story of the Salem Witch Trials. 1995.


Hirsi Ali, A. Infidel. 2007.


Hirsi Ali, A. The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam. 2006.


Hitchens, C. God Is Not Great. 2007.


Hoffmann, R.J. Porphyry’s Against the Christians. 1994.


Hume, D. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. 1748.


Jacoby, S. Freethinkers. December 23, 2004.


James, W. The Will To Believe. 1956.


Johnson, P. History of Christianity.


Krakauer, J. Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith. 2004.


Kramer, H and J Sprenger. The Malleus Maleficarum. 1489.


Lewis, B. The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror. 2004.


Lewis, B. What Went Wrong?: The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East. 2003.


Mackay, C. Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. 1841.


McDermott, T. Perfect Soldiers: The 9/11 Hijackers: Who They Were, Why They Did It. 2006.


Naipaul, VS. Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey. 1982.


Nelson, T (Ed). The Bible. 1999.


Nietzsche, F. The Portable Nietzsche. 1977.


O'Brien, C.C. On the Eve of Millennium: The Future of Democracy Through an Age of Unreason. 1995.


Oliver A. M. and Steinberg P. F. The Road To Martyr’s Square: A Journey into the World of the Suicide Bomber. 2006.


Paulos, JA. Irreligion: A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don’t Add Up. 2007.


Pelikan, J. Jesus Through the Centuries. 1997.


Peters, E. Inquisition. 1988.


Phillips, K. American Theocracy. 2006.


Russell, B. Why I am Not a Christian.. October 30, 1967.


Russell, B. Religion and Science. 1935.


Ruthven, M. Islam in the World. 2000.


Sandler, L. Righteous: Dispatches from the Evangelical Youth. September 7, 2006.


Shanks, N. God the Devil, and Darwin.. December 10, 2003.


Shermer, M. Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design. 2006.


Smith, G.H. Atheism: The Case Against God. June 1980.


Stenger, V. God: The Failed Hypothesis.. January 25, 2007.


Trachtenberg, J. The devil and the Jews: The medieval conception of the Jew and its relation to modern antisemitism. 1943.


Trofimov, Y. Faith at War: A Journey on the Frontlines of Islam, from Baghdad to Timbuktu. 2006.


Vermes, G. The Religion of Jesus the Jew. 1993.


Victoria, B. Zen War Stories. 2003.


Victoria, B. Zen at War. 2006.


Warraq, I. Why I Am Not a Muslim. March 2003.


Wilson, A. N. Paul: The Mind of the Apostle. 1997.


Wilson, A. N. Jesus: A Life. 1992.


Wistrich, R.S. Anti-Semitism: The Longest Hatred. 1991.


Wright, L. The Looming Tower. 2006.


Ye'Or, B. Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis. 2005.