Questioning Books about Religion
I. The Religious Case Against Belief by James P. Carse. Published in 2008 by Penguin. ISBN-13: 978-1594201691. At Brookens Library at BL51 .C37 2008.
2. The Evolution of God by Robert Wright. Published in 2009 by Little, Brown and Company. ISBN-13: 978-0316734912.
3. Secular Wholeness: A Skeptic's Paths To A Richer Life by David Cortesi. Published in 2006 by Trafford Publishing. ISBN-13: 978-1553691754.
4. The Sacred Depths of Nature by Ursula Goodenough. Published in 2000 by Oxford University Press. ISBN-13: 978-0195136296.
5. The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins. Published in 2006 by Houghton Mifflin. ISBN-13: 978-0195136296. At Brookens Library at BL2775.3 .D39 2006.
6. God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens. Published in 2007 by Twelve. ISBN-13: 978-0446579803. At Brookens Library at BL2775.3 .H58 2007.
7. Why I Am Not a Christian, and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects by Bertrand Russell. Published in 1957 by Simon and Schuster. More recent editions are available. Russell's lecture on which the book is based first published in 1927.
8. The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason by Sam Harris. Published in 2004 by W. W. Norton. ISBN-13: 978-0393327656. At Brookens Library at BL2775.3 .H37 2005.
9. How We Believe, 2nd Edition: Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God by Michael Shermer. Published in 2003 by Holt. ISBN-13: 978-0805074796.
10. The Case for God by Karen Armstrong. Published in 2009 by Knopf. ISBN-13: 978-0307269188.
Comparative Religion and works sympathetic to religion
1. A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam by Karen Armstrong. Published in 1993 by A.A. Knopf. ISBN-13: 978-0345384560. At Brookens Library at BT98 .A651993.
2. Understanding Religion: A Thematic Approach by Moojan Momen. Published in 2009 by Oneworld. ISBN-13: 978-1851685998.
3. Islam: Past, Present, and Future by Hans Küng. Published in 2007 by Oneworld. ISBN-13: 978-1851683772. At Brookens Library at BP161.3 .K8513 2007.
4. The World's Religions, 50th Anniversary edition by Huston Smith. Published in 2009 by HarperOne. ISBN-13: 978-0061660184. [First edition of Smith's classic was published in 1959, and a very early version of this is available at the UIS Brookens Library at BL80 .S66]
5. A Sociable God: A Brief Introduction to a Transcendental Sociology by Ken Wilber. Published in 1993 by New Press. ISBN: 0070701857. This is available at the UIS Brookens Library at BL60 .W531983.
6. Questions of Truth: Fifty-one Responses to Questions About God, Science, and Belief by John Polkinghorne and Nicholas Beale. Published in 2009 by Westminster John Knox Press. ISBN: 0664233511. This is not available at the UIS Brookens Library, but if it were, it's call number might be BT77 .P65 2009.
7. All That Is: A Naturalistic Faith for the Twenty-First Century. by Arthur Peacocke & Philip Clayton. Published in 2007 by Fortress Press. ISBN: 080066227X. This is not available at the UIS Brookens Library, but if it were, it's call number might be BL240.3 .P43 2007.
8. Panentheism: The Other God of the Philosophers--From Plato to the Present. by John W. Cooper. Published in 2006 by Baker Academic. ISBN: 0801027241. This is not available at the UIS Brookens Library, but if it were, it's call number might be 211.2 C7775 or 211.2 C786p.
9. The End of Discovery: Are We Approaching the Boundaries of the Knowable?. by Russell Stannard. Published in 2010 by Oxford University Press. ISBN: 0199585245. This is not available at the UIS Brookens Library, but it can be purchased.
10. Miracles and Metaphors. by Mirza Abu'l-Fadl Gulpaygani (Author), Juan R.I. Cole (translator). Published in 1981 [1900] by Kalimat Press. ISBN: 0933770227. This is not available at the UIS Brookens Library, but it is available from the library at our Urbana campus, where the call number is 297.892 G952D:E.
Specific Religion Study in Great Depth.
See the documentary: The Bible's Buried Secrets, which ran as a documentary on the PBS program NOVA in 2008, and be viewed online.
An Introduction to Shi'i Islam: The History and Doctrines of Twelver Shi'ism by Moojan Momen. Published in 1987 by Yale University Press. ISBN is 978-0300035315.
Muhammad and the Course of Islam by H. M. Balyuzi. Published in 1976 by George Ronald. ISBN is 978-0853980605.
Modernity and the Millennium: the Genesis of the Baha'i Faith in the Nineteenth-Century Middle East by Juan Ricardo Cole. Published by Columbia University Press in 1998. ISBN is 978-0231110815.
Engaging the Muslim World by Juan Ricardo Cole. Published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2009. ISBN is 978-0231110815. At Brookens Library at DS35.74.U6 C65 2009.
Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World through Islamic Eyes by Tamim Ansary. Published in 2009 by PublicAffairs. ISBN is 978-1586486068.
Essential Sufism by Robert Frager and James Fadiman (editors). Published by HarperSanFrancisco in 1997. ISBN is 978-0062514752.
The Sufis by Idries Shah. Published by Doubleday in 1964. ISBN is 978-0385079662. At Brookens Library at BP189 .S381971.
The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis. Published by HarperSanFrancisco in 2001 [originally published in 1942]. ISBN is 978-0977616718. At Brookens Library at BR125 .L67 1995.
The Imitation of Christ by Thomas à Kempis Rev. Translation as published by the Confraternity of the Precious Blood in 1954 [originally published in 1418]. ISBN is 978-0060652937. At Brookens Library at BV4821 .A11954A.
Dhammapada: The Sayings of the Buddha as Translated by Thomas Byrom with a Foreward by Ram Dass. Published by Shambhala in 1993. ISBN is 978-0877739661. At Brookens Library at there are two different versions, one at BL1411.D5 D471973 and the other at BL1411 .D51950.
See also the following books related to religion or religious persons:
Davis, T. (2007). Red letters: Living a faith that bleeds. Colorado Springs, CO: David C. Cook.
King, M. L., & Carson, C. (1998). The autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. New York: Intellectual Properties Management in association with Warner Books.
Niebuhr, R., & Robertson, D. B. (1967). Essays in applied Christianity: The Church and the new world. New York: Meridian Books.
Schweitzer, A., & Campion, C. T. (1949). Out of my life and thought: An autobiography. New York: H. Holt.
Schweitzer, A., & Joy, C. R. (1967). Albert Schweitzer; an anthology. edited by Charles R. Joy. Boston: Beacon Press.
Sider, R. J., & Gay, C. M. (1997). Rich Christians in an age of hunger - revisited. U.S.: Christians Scholar's Review.
Teresa, G. & Benenate, B. (1997). In the heart of the world: Thoughts, stories, & prayers. Novato, Calif.: New World Library.
Teresa, González-Balado, J. L., & Playfoot, J. N. (1985). My life for the poor. San Francisco: Harper & Row.
Tillich, P. (1966). On the boundary; an autobiographical sketch. New York: Scribner.
Tillich, P. (1971). Political expectation. New York: Harper & Row.