Parenting Beyond Belief: On Raising Ethical, Caring Kids Without Religion
10 best books like Parenting Beyond Belief: On Raising Ethical, Caring Kids Without Religion (Dale McGowan): The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever, The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths, The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University, The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power, C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy, Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible & Why We Don't Know About Them, The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding, Jesus Land: A Memoir, The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size, The Truth Book: Escaping a Childhood of Abuse Among Jehovah's Witnesses
The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
| Author | Christopher Hitchens |
| ISBN | 0306816083 |
From the #1 New York Times best-selling author of God Is Not Great, a provocative and entertaining guided tour of atheist and agnostic thought through the ages with never-before-published pieces by Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Christopher Hitchens continues to make the case for...
The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths
| Author | Michael Shermer |
| ISBN | 0805091254 |
The Believing Brain is bestselling author Michael Shermer's comprehensive and provocative theory on how beliefs are born, formed, reinforced, challenged, changed, and extinguished.
In this work synthesizing thirty years of research, psychologist, historian of science, and the world's...
As a sophomore at Brown University, Kevin Roose didn't have much contact with the Religious Right. Raised in a secular home by staunchly liberal parents, he fit right in with Brown's sweatshop-protesting, fair-trade coffee-drinking, God-ambivalent student body. So when he had a chance encounter...
| Author | Jeff Sharlet |
| ISBN | 0060559799 |
A journalist's penetrating look at the untold story of christian fundamentalism's most elite organization, a self-described invisible network dedicated to a religion of power for the powerful.
They are the Family—fundamentalism's avant-garde, waging spiritual war in the halls of...
C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy
| Author | Jeff Sharlet |
| ISBN | 0316091073 |
C Street - where piety, politics, and corruption meet
Jeff Sharlet is the only journalist to have reported from inside the C Street House, the Fellowship residence known simply by its Washington, DC address. The house has lately been the scene of notorious political scandal, but more crucially...
Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible & Why We Don't Know About Them
| Author | Bart D. Ehrman |
| ISBN | 0061173932 |
Picking up where Bible expert Bart Ehrman's New York Times bestseller Misquoting Jesus left off, Jesus, Interrupted addresses the larger issue of what the New Testament actually teaches—& it's not what most people think. Here Ehrman reveals what scholars have unearthed:
•The authors...
The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding
| Author | La Leche League International |
| ISBN | 0452285801 |
This book is great for helping new moms get the hang of latching and positioning. That's about it.
Most moms work and many of those moms work full-time, so having an entire chapter of a breastfeeding book devoted to advocating that women NOT work is unsupportive, misogynistic and completely...
| Author | Julia Scheeres |
| ISBN | 1582433542 |
For Julia Scheeres and her adopted brother David, "Jesus Land" stretched from their parents' fundamentalist home, past the hostilities of high school, and deep into a Christian reform school in the Dominican Republic. For these two teenagers - brother and sister, black and white - the 1980s were a...
The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size
| Author | Tor Nørretranders |
| ISBN | 0140230122 |
As John Casti wrote, "Finally, a book that really does explain consciousness." This groundbreaking work by Denmark's leading science writer draws on psychology, evolutionary biology, information theory, and other disciplines to argue its revolutionary point: that consciousness represents...
The Truth Book: Escaping a Childhood of Abuse Among Jehovah's Witnesses
| Author | Joy Castro |
| ISBN | 1559707879 |
"The personal account of a young girl who endured abuse and the disturbing effects of religious hypocrisy within one of the most enigmatic sects of Christian fundamentalism." "Joy Castro is adopted as a baby and raised by a devout Jehovah's Witness family. As a child, she is constantly told to always...
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....
The Challenge of Jesus: Rediscovering Who Jesus Was and Is
| Author | N.T. Wright |
| ISBN | 0830822003 |
Today a renewed and vigorous scholarly quest for the historical Jesus is underway. In the midst of well publicized and controversial books on Jesus, N. T. Wright's lectures and writings have been widely recognized for providing a fresh, provocative and historically credible portrait. Out of his...
Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality
| Author | Max Tegmark |
| ISBN | 1846144760 |
Our Mathematical Universe is a journey to explore the mysteries uncovered by cosmology and to discover the nature of reality. Our Big Bang, our distant future, parallel worlds, the sub-atomic and intergalactic - none of them are what they seem. But there is a way to understand this immense strangeness...
| Author | Lawrence J. Cohen |
| ISBN | 0345442865 |
Have you ever stepped back to watch what really goes on when your children play? As psychologist Lawrence J. Cohen points out, play is children’s way of exploring the world, communicating deep feelings, getting close to those they care about, working through stressful situations, and simply...
| Author | William Sears |
| ISBN | 0316778095 |
America's foremost baby and childcare experts, William Sears M.D. and Martha Sears, R.N., explain the benefits--to both you and your child--of connecting with your baby early.
Might you and your baby both sleep better if you shared a bed? How old is too old for breastfeeding? What is a father's...
| Author | John A. Buehrens |
| ISBN | 0807016179 |
For those contemplating religious choices, Unitarian Universalism offers an appealing alternative to religious denominations that stress theological creeds over individual conviction and belief. In this new edition of the classic introductory text on Unitarian Universalism, which includes...
| 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 | 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...
Simplicity Parenting: Using the Extraordinary Power of Less to Raise Calmer, Happier, and More Secure Kids
| Author | Kim John Payne |
| ISBN | 0345507975 |
Today’s busier, faster, supersized society is waging an undeclared war . . . on childhood. As the pace of life accelerates to hyperspeed–with too much stuff, too many choices, and too little time–children feel the pressure. They can become anxious, have trouble with friends and school, or even...
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....
The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire
| Author | Matt Taibbi |
| ISBN | 0385520344 |
A revelatory and darkly comic adventure through a nation on the verge of a nervous breakdown--from the halls of Congress to the bases of Baghdad to the apocalyptic churches of the heartland.
Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi set out to describe the nature of George Bush's America in the post-9/11...
God and the Folly of Faith: The Incompatibility of Science and Religion
| Author | Victor J. Stenger |
| ISBN | 1616145994 |
A thorough and hard-hitting critique that is a must read for anyone interested in the interaction between religion and science.
It has become the prevalent view among sociologists, historians, and some theistic scientists that religion and science have never been in serious conflict....
Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony
| Author | Richard Bauckham |
| ISBN | 0802831621 |
I have thumbed through this book many times before, skimmed chapters, and recommended it to many people. It's about time I finally dove in and worked through this masterpiece. And it really is a masterpiece. Bauckham's book is jaw-dropping in its scope and the force of the argument Bauckham puts forward.
Bauckham's...
Science and the Afterlife Experience: Evidence for the Immortality of Consciousness
| Author | Christopher David Carter |
| ISBN | 1594774528 |
Reveals the evidence of life beyond death
• Examines 125 years of scientific research into reincarnation, apparitions, and communication with the dead showing these phenomena are real
• Reveals the existence of higher planes of consciousness where the souls of the...
Near-Death Experiences: Understanding Visions of the Afterlife
| Author | John Martin Fischer |
Near-death experiences offer a glimpse not only into the nature of death but also into the meaning of life. They are not only useful tools to aid in the human quest to understand death but are also deeply meaningful, transformative experiences for the people who have them.
In a unique contribution...
Consciousness: An Introduction
Is there a theory that explains the essence of consciousness? Or is consciousness itself just an illusion? The "last great mystery of science," consciousness was excluded from serious research for most of the last century but is now a rapidly expanding area of study for students of psychology, philosophy,...
| Author | Derren Brown |
| ISBN | 1905026382 |
Derren Brown's amazing television and stage performances have entranced and amazed millions. His baffling tricks and stunning illusions have set new standards of what's possible, as well as causing controversy. Now, for the first time, he reveals the secrets behind his craft.
He...
