Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism
10 best books like Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism (Michelle Goldberg): How to Be an Antiracist, The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick, Doubt: A History, How We Believe: Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God, Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon, American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump, Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why, American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War On America, Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism, Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations
| Author | Ibram X. Kendi |
| ISBN | 0525509283 |
Ibram X. Kendi's concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justice in America--but even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. In How to be an Antiracist, Kendi asks us to think about what an antiracist...
The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick
The Lady from the Black Lagoon
uncovers the life and work of Milicent Patrick—one of Disney’s first female animators and the only woman in history to create one of Hollywood’s classic movie monsters.
As a teenager, Mallory O’Meara was thrilled to discover that one of her favorite...
| Author | Jennifer Michael Hecht |
| ISBN | 0060097957 |
In the tradition of grand sweeping histories such as From Dawn To Decadence, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, and A History of God, Hecht champions doubt and questioning as one of the great and noble, if unheralded, intellectual traditions that distinguish the Western mind especially-from...
How We Believe: Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God
| Author | Michael Shermer |
| ISBN | 0805074791 |
A new edition covering the latest scientific research on how the brain makes us believers or skeptics
Recent polls report that 96 percent of Americans believe in God, and 73 percent believe that angels regularly visit Earth. Why is this? Why, despite the rise of science, technology, and secular...
Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
An innovative thinker tackles the controversial question of why we believe in God and how religion shapes our lives and our future.
For a growing number of people, there is nothing more important than religion. It is an integral part of their marriage, child rearing, and community. In this...
American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump
Politico Magazine’s chief political correspondent provides a rollicking insider’s look at the making of the modern Republican Party—how a decade of cultural upheaval, populist outrage, and ideological warfare made the GOP vulnerable to a hostile takeover from the unlikeliest of insurgents:...
Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why
| Author | Bart D. Ehrman |
| ISBN | 0060859512 |
For almost 1,500 years, the New Testament manuscripts were copied by hand––and mistakes and intentional changes abound in the competing manuscript versions. Religious and biblical scholar Bart Ehrman makes the provocative case that many of our widely held beliefs concerning the divinity...
American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War On America
| Author | Chris Hedges |
| ISBN | 0743284437 |
Twenty-five years ago, when Pat Robertson and other radio and televangelists first spoke of the United States becoming a Christian nation that would build a global Christian empire, it was hard to take such hyperbolic rhetoric seriously. Today, such language no longer sounds like hyperbole but poses,...
Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism
| Author | Susan Jacoby |
| ISBN | 0805077766 |
"Jacoby accomplishes her task with clarity, thoroughness, and an engaging passion."
-Los Angeles Times Book Review
At a time when the separation of church and state is under attack as never before, Freethinkers offers a powerful defense of the secularist heritage that gave Americans...
Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations
| Author | Amy Chua |
| ISBN | 0399562850 |
The bestselling author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Yale Law School Professor Amy Chua offers a bold new prescription for reversing our foreign policy failures and overcoming our destructive political tribalism at home
Humans are tribal. We need to belong to groups. In many parts of...
| Author | Chaim Potok |
| ISBN | 0449001156 |
"Rivals anything Chaim Potok has ever produced. It is a book written with passion about passion. You're not likely to read anything better this year."
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Twenty years have passed for Asher Lev. He is a world-renowned artist living in France, still uncertain of his artistic direction....
With the publication of his first book of poems, The Weary Blues, in 1926, Langston Hughes electrified readers and launched a renaissance in black writing in America. The poems Hughes wrote celebrated the experience of invisible men and women: of slaves who "rushed the boots of Washington"; of...
| Author | David Richo |
| ISBN | 1570628122 |
"Most people think of love as a feeling," says David Richo, "but love is not so much a feeling as a way of being present." In this book, Richo offers a fresh perspective on love and relationships—one that focuses not on finding an ideal mate, but on becoming a more loving and realistic person. Drawing...
| Author | William Lobdell |
| ISBN | 0061626813 |
William Lobdell's journey of faith—and doubt—may be the most compelling spiritual memoir of our time. Lobdell became a born-again Christian in his late 20s when personal problems—including a failed marriage—drove him to his knees in prayer. As a newly minted evangelical, Lobdell—a...
John Horgan, author of the best-selling The End of Science, chronicles the most advanced research into the mechanics — and meaning — of mystical experiences. How do trances, visions, prayer, satori, and other mystical experiences “work”? What induces and defines them? Is there a scientific...
| Author | E.P. Sanders |
| ISBN | 0140144994 |
random thoughts:
-for Sanders, Jesus was (and this is not surprising to anyone who has read his other works on Jesus and Paul) very much a faithful, observant Jew; I largely agree; the conflicts with the Pharisees seem, when actually read in context, fairly minor in and of themselves, though...
| Author | Michel Onfray |
| ISBN | 1559708204 |
This tightly argued, hugely controversial work convincingly demonstrates how the world's three major monotheistic religions-Christianity, Judaism, and Islam-have attempted to suppress knowledge, science, pleasure, and desire, often condemning nonbelievers to death. If Nietzsche proclaimed...
Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists
| Author | Dan Barker |
| ISBN | 1569756775 |
ADVANCE PRAISE FOR GODLESS
“Valuable in the human story are the reflections of intelligent and ethical people who listen to the voice of reason and who allow it to vanquish bigotry and superstition. This book is a classic example.”
—CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS author of God is Not Great
“The...
God: The Failed Hypothesis: How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist
| Author | Victor J. Stenger |
| ISBN | 1591024811 |
Throughout history, arguments for and against the existence of God have been largely confined to philosophy and theology. In the meantime, science has sat on the sidelines and quietly watched this game of words march up and down the field. Despite the fact that science has revolutionized every aspect...
The Four Horsemen: The Conversation That Sparked an Atheist Revolution
| Author | Christopher Hitchens |
At the dawn of the new atheist movement, the thinkers who became known as “the four horsemen,” the heralds of religion's unraveling—Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Daniel Dennett—sat down together over cocktails. What followed was a rigorous, pathbreaking, and...
Society Without God: What the Least Religious Nations Can Tell Us about Contentment
| Author | Phil Zuckerman |
| ISBN | 0814797148 |
"Silver" Winner of the 2008 Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Award, Religion Category
Before he began his recent travels, it seemed to Phil Zuckerman as if humans all over the globe were "getting religion"--praising deities, performing holy rites, and soberly defending the world from sin....
Good Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe
| Author | Greg M. Epstein |
| ISBN | 0061670111 |
A provocative and positive response to Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and other New Atheists, Good Without God makes a bold claim for what nonbelievers do share and believe. Author Greg Epstein, the Humanist chaplain at Harvard, offers a world view for nonbelievers that dispenses...
Atheist Universe: The Thinking Person's Answer to Christian Fundamentalism
| Author | David Mills |
| ISBN | 1569755671 |
Clear, concise, and persuasive, Atheist Universe details exactly why God is unnecessary to explain the universe and life's diversity, organization, and beauty. The author thoroughly rebuts every argument that claims to "prove" God's existence - arguments based on logic, common sense, philosophy,...
The Quotable Atheist: Ammunition for Nonbelievers, Political Junkies, Gadflies, and Those Generally Hell-Bound
| Author | Jack Huberman |
| ISBN | 1560259698 |
Surprisingly, no book of quotations on God and religion by atheists and agnostics exists. Luckily, for the millions of American nonbelievers who have quietly stewed for years as the religious right made gains in politics and culture, the wait is over. Bestselling author Jack Huberman's zeitgeist...
Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer--and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class
| Author | Jacob S. Hacker |
| ISBN | 1416593845 |
A groundbreaking work that identifies the real culprit behind one of the great economic crimes of our time— the growing inequality of incomes between the vast majority of Americans and the richest of the rich.
We all know that the very rich have gotten a lot richer these past few decades while...
| Author | Robert Wright |
| ISBN | 0316734918 |
In this sweeping narrative that takes us from the Stone Age to the Information Age, Robert Wright unveils an astonishing discovery: there is a hidden pattern that the great monotheistic faiths have followed as they have evolved. Through the prisms of archaeology, theology, and evolutionary psychology,...
Paradox and Counterparadox: A New Model in the Therapy of the Family in Schizophrenic Transaction
| Author | Mara Selvini Palazzoli |
| ISBN | 0876687648 |
Paradox and Counterparadox introduces the English-speaking public to the first results of a research plan drawn up my the Milan Center for Family Studies at the end of 1971 and put into practice at the beginning of 1972. The book reports the therapeutic work carried out by the authors with fifteen families,...
The Bell Witch: An American Haunting
| Author | Brent Monahan |
| ISBN | 0312262922 |
Known throughout Tennessee as "Old Kate," the Bell Witch took up residence with John Bell's family in 1818. It was a cruel and noisy spirit, given to rapping and gnawing sounds before it found its voices.
With these voices and its supernatural acts, the Bell Witch tormented the Bell family....
Red State Christians: Understanding the Voters Who Elected Donald Trump
| Author | Angela Denker |
| ISBN | 1506449093 |
Donald Trump, a thrice-married, no-need-of-forgiveness, blustery billionaire who rarely goes to church, won more Evangelical Christian votes than any candidate in history on his way to winning the 2016 US presidential election. Veteran journalist Angela Denker set out to uncover why, traveling...
Why Are You Atheists So Angry? 99 Things That Piss Off the Godless
Why are atheists angry?
Is it because they're selfish, joyless, lacking in meaning, and alienated from God?
Or is it because they have legitimate reasons to be angry -- and are ready to do something about it?
Armed with passionate outrage, absurdist humor, and calm intelligence,...
