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10 best books like The Search for God at Harvard (Ari Goldman): Surprised by God: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Religion, Whose Bible Is It? A History of the Scriptures Through the Ages, The Jew in the Lotus, The Jewish Study Bible, How to Run a Traditional Jewish Household, Standing Again at Sinai: Judaism from a Feminist Perspective, Back to the Sources: Reading the Classic Jewish Texts, Living a Jewish Life, Postville: A Clash of Cultures in Heartland America, The Faith Club: A Muslim, A Christian, A Jew--Three Women Search for Understanding

Surprised by God: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Religion
AuthorDanya Ruttenberg
ISBN0807010685
At thirteen, Danya Ruttenberg decided that she was an atheist. Watching the sea of adults standing up and sitting down at Rosh Hashanah services, and apparently giving credence to the patently absurd truth-claims of the prayer book, she came to a conclusion: Marx was right.

As a young adult,...
Whose Bible Is It? A History of the Scriptures Through the Ages
AuthorJaroslav Pelikan
ISBN0670033855
No book has been more pored over, has been the subject of more commentary & controversy, or had more influence not only on religious beliefs but also on our culture & language. No book has been as widely read. But how did the bible become the book we know? Pelikan takes readers thru the book’s...
The Jew in the Lotus
AuthorRodger Kamenetz
ISBN0060645741
While accompanying eight high–spirited Jewish delegates to Dharamsala, India, for a historic Buddhist–Jewish dialogue with the Dalai Lama, poet Rodger Kamenetz comes to understand the convergence of Buddhist and Jewish thought. Along the way he encounters Ram Dass and Richard Gere, and dialogues...
The Jewish Study Bible
AuthorAnonymous
ISBN0195297512
The Jewish Study Bible is a one-volume resource tailored especially for the needs of students of the Hebrew Bible. Nearly forty scholars worldwide contributed to the translation and interpretation of the Jewish Study Bible, representing the best of Jewish biblical scholarship available today....
How to Run a Traditional Jewish Household
AuthorBlu Greenberg
ISBN0671602705
Truthfully, in spite of all the parts of this book I just don't agree with (namely: she's a bit heavy handed with lumping Conservative/Reform/Reconstructionist together, she calls herself a feminist but doesn't show it in her writing except in passive agressive comments here and there, the book is...
Standing Again at Sinai: Judaism from a Feminist Perspective
AuthorJudith Plaskow
ISBN0060666846
The subject is Jewish feminism, but the book's relevance doesn't end there. Not only does it deal with specifically "feminist" and "Jewish" concerns, it also gets into subjects including hermeneutics, the workings of community, the influence of language in our religious lives, and how one approaches...
Back to the Sources: Reading the Classic Jewish Texts
AuthorBarry W. Holtz
ISBN0671605968
A collection of slightly scholarly essays on the history, roles, structure and uses of the classic texts of Judaism: the Tanach (one each on narrative,law and poetry), Talmud, Midrash, the Medieval Bible Commentaries, Medieval Jewish Philosophy, Kabbalistic texts, the teachings of the Hasidic...
Living a Jewish Life
AuthorAnita Diamant
ISBN0062734431
Jewish tradition is a gift and a challenge. "Living a Jewish Life" is your guide to the cultural and spiritual treasures of Judaism, explained in ways that address the choices posed by modern life. From hanging a mezuzah to celebrating a wedding, from lighting Sabbath candles to choosing a synagogue...
Postville: A Clash of Cultures in Heartland America
AuthorStephen G. Bloom
ISBN0156013363
In 1987, a group of Lubavitchers, one of the most orthodox and zealous of the Jewish sects, opened a kosher slaughterhouse just outside tiny Postville, Iowa (pop. 1,465). When the business became a worldwide success, Postville found itself both revived and divided. The town's initial welcome of the...
The Faith Club: A Muslim, A Christian, A Jew--Three Women Search for Understanding
AuthorSuzanne Oliver
""Welcome to the Faith Club. We're three mothers from three faiths -- Islam, Christianity, and Judaism -- who got together to write a picture book for our children that would highlight the connections between our religions. But no sooner had we started talking about our beliefs and how to explain them...
Mystics, Mavericks, and Merrymakers: An Intimate Journey Among Hasidic Girls
AuthorStephanie Wellen Levine
ISBN0814751970
From the ardently religious young woman who longs for the life of a male scholar to the young rebel who visits a strip club, smokes pot, and agonizes over her loss of faith to the proud Lubavitcher with a desire for a high-powered career, Stephanie Wellen Levine provides a rare glimpse into the inner worlds...
Finding God at Harvard: Spiritual Journeys of Thinking Christians
AuthorKelly Monroe Kullberg
ISBN0310219221
Ari Goldman's best-selling book, The Search for God at Harvard, chronicled his search for signs of genuine religious faith at Harvard Divinity School. The New York Times reporter concluded that God was not very evident at the prestigious Ivy League campus. Kelly Monroe reveals another picture of...
The Mezuzah in the Madonna's Foot: Marranos and Other Secret Jews--A Woman Discovers Her Spiritual Heritage
AuthorTrudi Alexy
ISBN0060603402
Great premise for the book but was hoping for more. My favorite part was the author's discussion about her family's experience fleeing Czechoslovakia for France, then crossing the border to Spain. In many ways, the book is a tribute to Spain and its relative "open door" policy to Jews during the Holocaust....
Sacred Ground: Pluralism, Prejudice, and the Promise of America
AuthorEboo Patel
ISBN0807077488
An inspiring call for Americans to defend the values of inclusiveness and pluralism by one of our best-known American Muslim leaders
 
In the decade following the attacks of 9/11, suspicion and animosity toward American Muslims has increased rather than subsided. Alarmist, hateful rhetoric...
The Religions of Man
AuthorHuston Smith
Here is a unique study of the world's great religions: Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Islam, Judaism, and Christianity. It is not a history; it is not a critique. Instead it explains, simply and sympathetically, the basic tenets of each religion an d the reasons why it attracts millions...
Faitheist: How An Atheist Found Common Ground With The Religious
AuthorChris Stedman
ISBN0807014397
The stunning popularity of the "New Atheist" movement--whose most famous spokesmen include Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and the late Christopher Hitchens--speaks to both the growing ranks of atheists as well as their vehement disdain for religion. In Faitheist, Chris Stedman challenges the orthodoxies...
Hope Will Find You: My Search for the Wisdom to Stop Waiting and Start Living
AuthorNaomi Levy
ISBN0385531702
How can I get my life off hold? When will my life really begin? We all ask ourselves the same questions when we are struggling to move forward. As a rabbi, Naomi Levy frequently offered spiritual guidance to people seeking the answers. But when a doctor told her that her young daughter, Noa, had a fatal...
Mama's Boy, Preacher's Son: A Memoir
AuthorKevin Jennings
ISBN0807071463
Growing up poor in the South, Kevin Jennings learned a lot of things, especially about how to be a real man. When his father, a fundamentalist preacher, dropped dead at his son's eighth birthday party, Kevin already knew he wasn't supposed to cry.

He also knew there was no salvation for homosexuals,...
Miriam's Kitchen
AuthorElizabeth Ehrlich
Like many Jewish Americans, Elizabeth Ehrlich was ambivalent about her background. She identified with Jewish cultural attitudes, but not with the institutions; she had fond memories of her Jewish grandmothers, but she found their religious practices irrelevant to her life. It wasn't until she...
If All the Seas Were Ink: A Memoir
AuthorIlana Kurshan
ISBN0646152602
At the age of 27, alone in Jerusalem in the wake of a painful divorce, Ilana Kurshan joined the world s largest book club, learning daf yomi, Hebrew for daily page" of the Talmud, a book of rabbinic teachings spanning about 600 years and the basis for all codes of Jewish law. A runner, a reader and a romantic,...
Turbulent Souls: A Catholic Son's Return To His Jewish Family
AuthorStephen J. Dubner
Two years ago, Stephen J. Dubner wrote a cover story for The New York Times Magazine called Choosing My Religion. It became one of the most widely discussed articles in the magazine's history. Turbulent Souls, the book that grew out of that article, is an intimate memoir of a man in search of a Jewish heritage...
Rachel Calof's Story: Jewish Homesteader on the Northern Plains
AuthorRachel Calof
ISBN0253209862
"Calof's [story] has the 'electricity' one occasionally finds in primary sources. It is powerful, shocking, and primitive, with the kind of appeal primary sources often attain without effort.... it is a strong addition to the literature of women's experience on the frontier." --Lillian Schlissel...
God vs. Gay?: The Religious Case for Equality
AuthorJay Michaelson
ISBN0807001597
An alien anthropologist analyzing our early-21st century society in America, based solely on media coverage, would probably assume that the issue of gay rights popped instantly into existence sometime in the mid-1980s, around the time of the early AIDS epidemic, which was originally dubbed the...
The Zionist Idea: A Historical Analysis and Reader
AuthorArthur Hertzberg
ISBN0827606222
I was directed to read this book because I read "The Zionist Ideas" by Gil Troy. Both were commissioned by The Jewish Publication Society. Arthur Herzberg's was commissioned 10 years after the creation of Israel and Gil Troy's was commissioned 70 years after the creation of Israel. Gil Troys was somewhat...
A Chosen Faith: An Introduction to Unitarian Universalism
AuthorJohn A. Buehrens
ISBN0807016179
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...
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