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Religious Studies Books
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The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as religious-studies)
avg rating 4.11 — 9,215 ratings — published 1957
The Bhagavad Gita (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as religious-studies)
avg rating 4.19 — 82,212 ratings — published -400
The Varieties of Religious Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as religious-studies)
avg rating 3.99 — 13,168 ratings — published 1902
A History of God: The 4000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as religious-studies)
avg rating 3.89 — 52,752 ratings — published 1993
Tao Te Ching (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as religious-studies)
avg rating 4.29 — 183,719 ratings — published -350
The Gnostic Gospels (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as religious-studies)
avg rating 3.94 — 20,152 ratings — published 1979
Mere Christianity (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as religious-studies)
avg rating 4.37 — 461,154 ratings — published 1952
The World's Religions (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as religious-studies)
avg rating 4.04 — 14,267 ratings — published 1958
القرآن الكريم (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as religious-studies)
avg rating 4.38 — 72,825 ratings — published 632
The God Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as religious-studies)
avg rating 3.90 — 284,328 ratings — published 2006
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as religious-studies)
avg rating 3.86 — 73,166 ratings — published 2013
Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as religious-studies)
avg rating 3.93 — 20,591 ratings — published 2005
No God but God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 35 times as religious-studies)
avg rating 4.12 — 29,016 ratings — published 2005
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as religious-studies)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,797 ratings — published 1912
Confessions (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as religious-studies)
avg rating 4.00 — 75,002 ratings — published 400
The Holy Bible: King James Version (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as religious-studies)
avg rating 4.45 — 320,652 ratings — published 1611
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as religious-studies)
avg rating 3.96 — 113,125 ratings — published 2007
The Myth of the Eternal Return or, Cosmos and History (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as religious-studies)
avg rating 4.22 — 3,404 ratings — published 1949
The Idea of the Holy (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as religious-studies)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,549 ratings — published 1917
The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as religious-studies)
avg rating 4.23 — 91,448 ratings — published 1830
The Battle for God (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as religious-studies)
avg rating 3.95 — 6,732 ratings — published 2000
The Screwtape Letters (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 22 times as religious-studies)
avg rating 4.27 — 528,540 ratings — published 1942
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as religious-studies)
avg rating 4.01 — 226,636 ratings — published 2003
The Power of Myth (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as religious-studies)
avg rating 4.26 — 53,978 ratings — published 1988
The Evolution of God (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as religious-studies)
avg rating 3.95 — 8,053 ratings — published 2009
The Dhammapada (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as religious-studies)
avg rating 4.27 — 31,340 ratings — published -400
Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as religious-studies)
avg rating 3.90 — 51,467 ratings — published 2014
Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible & Why We Don't Know About Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as religious-studies)
avg rating 3.99 — 11,186 ratings — published 2009
The Hero With a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as religious-studies)
avg rating 4.12 — 45,327 ratings — published 1949
The Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as religious-studies)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,153 ratings — published 1967
Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as religious-studies)
avg rating 4.25 — 41,957 ratings — published 2020
How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as religious-studies)
avg rating 4.10 — 7,845 ratings — published 2014
The Origin of Satan: How Christians Demonized Jews, Pagans and Heretics (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as religious-studies)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,381 ratings — published 1995
God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World--and Why Their Differences Matter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as religious-studies)
avg rating 3.77 — 4,662 ratings — published 2010
Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as religious-studies)
avg rating 4.00 — 9,256 ratings — published 1979
A Secular Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as religious-studies)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,885 ratings — published 2007
The Future of an Illusion (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as religious-studies)
avg rating 3.76 — 7,325 ratings — published 1927
The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as religious-studies)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,999 ratings — published 2006
Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as religious-studies)
avg rating 3.92 — 7,582 ratings — published 2003
The Invention of World Religions: Or, How European Universalism Was Preserved in the Language of Pluralism (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as religious-studies)
avg rating 4.01 — 201 ratings — published 2005
Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as religious-studies)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,046 ratings — published 2020
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as religious-studies)
avg rating 3.91 — 15,239 ratings — published 1904
Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as religious-studies)
avg rating 3.97 — 451 ratings — published 2011
Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as religious-studies)
avg rating 3.89 — 12,970 ratings — published 2006
The Tao of Pooh (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as religious-studies)
avg rating 4.01 — 131,184 ratings — published 1982
The Nag Hammadi Library (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as religious-studies)
avg rating 4.23 — 4,900 ratings — published 400
A History of Religious Ideas, Volume 1: From the Stone Age to the Eleusinian Mysteries (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as religious-studies)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,907 ratings — published 1975
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as religious-studies)
avg rating 4.04 — 45,195 ratings — published 2013
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as religious-studies)
avg rating 4.08 — 884,793 ratings — published 1922
Orthodoxy (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as religious-studies)
avg rating 4.20 — 42,514 ratings — published 1908
“I don't study the cultures of the world, I am the cultures of the world.”
― Her Insan Ailem: Everyone is Family, Everywhere is Home
― Her Insan Ailem: Everyone is Family, Everywhere is Home
“If religion means primarily God-consciousness, or the realization of God both within and without, and secondarily a body of beliefs, tenets and dogmas, then, strictly speaking, there is but one religion in the world, for there is but one God.”
― Science of Religion
― Science of Religion












