Losing My Religion: How I Lost My Faith Reporting on Religion in America—and Found Unexpected Peace
10 best books like Losing My Religion: How I Lost My Faith Reporting on Religion in America—and Found Unexpected Peace (William Lobdell): A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love, Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason, Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism, A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, Letter to a Christian Nation, Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects, Good Book: The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and Inspiring Things I Learned When I Read Every Single Word of the Bible, The New Atheism: Taking a Stand for Science and Reason, Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists
A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love
| Author | Richard Dawkins |
| ISBN | 0618485392 |
The first collection of essays from renowned scientist and best-selling author Richard Dawkins.
Richard Dawkins's essays are an enthusiastic testament to the power of rigorous, scientific examination, and they span many different corners of his personal and professional life. He revisits...
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...
The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
| Author | Sam Harris |
| ISBN | 0393327655 |
In The End of Faith, Sam Harris delivers a startling analysis of the clash between reason and religion in the modern world. He offers a vivid, historical tour of our willingness to suspend reason in favor of religious beliefs—even when these beliefs inspire the worst human atrocities. While warning...
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...
A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
| Author | Karen Armstrong |
| ISBN | 0517223120 |
Over 700,000 copies of the original hardcover and paperback editions of this stunningly popular book have been sold. Karen Armstrong's superbly readable exploration of how the three dominant monotheistic religions of the world - Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - have shaped and altered the conception...
Letter to a Christian Nation
| Author | Sam Harris |
| ISBN | 0307265773 |
In response to The End of Faith, Sam Harris received thousands of letters from Christians excoriating him for not believing in God. Letter to A Christian Nation is his reply. Using rational argument, Harris offers a measured refutation of the beliefs that form the core of fundamentalist Christianity....
Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
| Author | Bertrand Russell |
| ISBN | 0671203231 |
Dedicated as few men have been to the life of reason, Bertrand Russell has always been concerned with the basic questions to which religion also addresses itself -- questions about man's place in the universe and the nature of the good life, questions that involve life after death, morality, freedom,...
| Author | David Plotz |
| ISBN | 0061719951 |
At a time when wars are fought over scriptural interpretation, when the influence of religion on American politics has never been greater, when many Americans still believe in the Bible’s literal truth, it has never been more important to get to know the Bible. Good Book is what happens when a regular...
| Author | Victor J. Stenger |
| ISBN | 1591027519 |
In recent years a number of bestselling books have forcefully argued that belief in God can no longer be defended on rational or empirical grounds, and that the scientific worldview has rendered obsolete the traditional beliefs held by Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. The authors of these books—Richard...
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...
50 Reasons People Give for Believing in a God
| Author | Guy P. Harrison |
| ISBN | 1591025672 |
Many books that challenge religious belief from a skeptical point of view take a combative tone that is almost guaranteed to alienate believers or they present complex philosophical or scientific arguments that fail to reach the average reader. This is undoubtably an ineffective way of encouraging...
Why I Became an Atheist: A Former Preacher Rejects Christianity
| Author | John W. Loftus |
| ISBN | 1591025923 |
For about two decades John W. Loftus was a devout evangelical Christian, an ordained minister of the Church of Christ, and an ardent apologist for Christianity. With three degrees-in philosophy, theology, and philosophy of religion-he was adept at using rational argumentation to defend the faith....
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....
Atheism: The Case Against God
Does a god exist? This question has undoubtedly been asked, in one form or another, since man has had the ability to communicate. . . Thousands of volumes have been written on the subject of a god, and the vast majority have answered the questions with a resounding 'Yes!' "
"You are about to read...
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...
