6th edition. — Dubuque, IA: McGraw-Hill Education, 2018. — xxi, 689 p., tables. The sixth edition of Scriptures of the World’s Religions brings together many of the world’s most influential sacred texts. It includes Indigenous religions too. With comprehensive introductions in each chapter, the selected writings emphasize each religion’s founders, central doctrines, and...
Independently published, 2019. — 181 p. — ISBN: 978-1793921789. This book was written as an effort to reconstruct a fun part of the Bible through a mathematical view. With a mathematician's eyes, the author was seeking answers to questions that anyone might have had while reading the Bible. It is fun to read this book because it solves the questions embedded in Genesis easily...
Wings Books, Random House, 1988. — 673 p. — ISBN: 051734582X. In this book Isaac Asimov explores the historical, geographical, and biographical aspects of the events described in the Old Testament. Asimov's attempts to illuminate the Bible's many obscure, mysterious passages prove absorbing reading for anyone interested in religion and history. This book covers what Asimov...
Book Tree, 1997. — 396 p.: ill. — ISBN: 978-1885395191. An Outline of the Origins of Moon and Sun Worship, Astrology, Sex Symbolism, Mystic Meaning of Numbers, the Cabala, and Many Popular Customs, Myths, Superstitions and Religious Beliefs. If you read this book you will never look at religion in the same way ever again. Symbols will start appearing around you. Much of your...
Harvard University Press, 2017. — 281 p. — ISBN: 0674088808. The cross stirs intense feelings among Christians as well as non-Christians. Robin Jensen takes readers on an intellectual and spiritual journey through the two-thousand-year evolution of the cross as an idea and an artifact, illuminating the controversies-along with the forms of devotion-this central symbol of...
New York: Pantheon Books, 2012. — 434 p. — ISBN: 978-0-307-90710-3. What if religions are neither all true or all nonsense? The boring debate between fundamentalist believers and non-believers is finally moved on by Alain’s book Religion for Atheists, which argues that the supernatural claims of religion are of course entirely false – and yet that religions still have some very...
London, UK: Vintage, 2002. — 272 p. — ISBN: 9781407020877. Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought is a book by cognitive anthropologist Pascal Boyer that discusses the evolutionary psychology of religion and evolutionary origin of religions. Boyer's multifaceted book explains the genesis of religious concepts through the mind's cognitive inference...
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