Comparative Religion


A History of God: The 4000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam
The Secret Gospel of Jesus, AD 0-78
The Bhagavad Gita
The World's Religions
القرآن الكريم
The Other Side of the Judeo-Christian History
The Golden Bough
The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion
The Battle for God
The Power of Myth
Tao Te Ching
God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World--and Why Their Differences Matter
The Masks of God, Volume 1: Primitive Mythology
The Hero with a Thousand Faces
The Perennial Philosophy
Lisa Kemmerer
“ Similarly, vivisection is a selfish exploitation of other creatures—nonhumans are not here to live and die on behalf of our hopes. ”
― Lisa Kemmerer, Animals and World Religions

Osho
“ Mohammedanism and Christianity are the two religions created by poor people. They don't have that elegance, that delicacy, that flavor, that comes from meditation. They don't have even the word "meditation" in their vocabulary. They are the religions of prayer. Prayer makes you a beggar; meditation makes you a master. Prayer is a degradation: you are humiliating yourself, falling on your knees, folding your hands towards the sky, knowing nothing of what you are doing. And what do you ask in you ...more ”
― Osho, From the false to the truth: Answers to the seekers of the path

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