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A SHORT
AND BALANCED BOOKLIST
FOR
AMERICAN RELIGIOUS LITERACY
see also
A Bibliography for our Multi-faith Context
The Reverend Vern Barnet, DMn, 2014
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these books, they would have some basic knowledge of what religion is about
and how it is inflected.
¶ Catherine L Albanese: America: Religions and Religion ¶ Karen Armstrong: A History of God ¶ Randall Balmer: God in the White House: How Faith Shaped the Presidency from John F. Kennedy to George W. Bush. ¶ Ian G Barbour: Religion and Science ¶ Joel D Beversluis: Sourcebook of the World's Religions: An Interfaith Guide to Religion and Spirituality ¶ Joseph Campbell: The Hero
with a Thousand Faces
¶ Forrest Church: So Help Me God: The Founding Fathers and the First Great Battle Over Church and State ¶ Wendy Doniger (O'Flaherty): Other People's Myths ¶ Diana L Eck: A New Religious America: How a "Christian Country Has Become the World's Most Religiously Diverse Nation. ¶ Mircea Eliade: Encyclopedia
of Religion (16 vols)
¶ Anthony Flew and Alasdair MacIntyre: New Essays in Philosophical Theology ¶ Georg Feuerstein: Sacred Sexuality ¶ Stanley J Grenz: A Primer on Postmodernism ¶ Andrew Harvey: The Essential Mystics: The Soul's Journey into Truth ¶ Bud Heckman: InterActive Faith: The Essential Interreligious Community-Building Handbook ¶ Anton Jacobs: Religion and the Critical Mind: A Journey for Seekers, Doubters and the Curious ¶ Steven L Jeffers, Michael E Nelson, Vern Barnet, Michael C Brannigan: The Essential Guide to Religious Traditions and Spirituality for Health Care Providers ¶ Paul F Knitter: Introducing Theologies of Religions ¶ Stuart M Matlins and Arthur J Magida: How to Be a Perfect Stranger: The Essential Religious Etiquette Handbook ¶ Martin E Marty: The One and the Many: America's Struggle for the Common Good ¶ Philip Novak: The World's Wisdom: Sacred Texts of the World's Religions ¶ Geoffrey Parrinder: Worship in the World's Religions ¶ Christopher Partridge: New Religions: A Guide ¶ Eboo Patel: Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation ¶ Stephen Prothero: Religious
Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know - and Doesn't
¶ Robert D. Putnam and David E. Campbell. American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us. ¶ Roger Schmidt: Exploring Religion ¶ Arvind Sharma: Our Religions ¶ Huston Smith:The World's Religions: Our Great Wisdom Traditions ¶ Wilfred Cantwell Smith: Towards
a World Theology
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