Books on Religion, God

Recommended books

• Religion for Atheists: a non-believer’s guide to the uses of religion by Alain de Botton 2012
• The Believing Brain: from ghosts to gods to politics and conspiricies—how we construct beliefs and reinforce them as truths by Michael Shermer, 2011
• The Belief Instinct: Psychology of Souls, Destiny, and the Meaning of Life by Jesse Bering – traces all to theory of mind, shows evolutionary value of believing in God. how to escape. 2011. Selected for book group in 2013
• Deer Hunting with Jesus
• Biology of Belief
• Candidate Without a Prayer: An Autobiography of a Jewish Atheist in the Bible Belt, by Herb Silverman
• Greening of God and Science by Rupert Sheldrake
• How we Believe, 2nd edition: science, skepticism and the Search for god by Michael Shermer, 2003, 2000
• Combating Cult Mind Control
• Denialism [of science] or something like that, rec by Rick Tholes?
• The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins (2006)
• The Evolution of God by Robert Wright (2009) shamans,abrahamics,Christianity,islam
• Dan Barker, Losing Faith in Faith
• Hume, Dialogues concerning natural religion

Already read in Jefferson Center Book Group(but not listed in the past book read page)

8/11 Souled Out: Reclaiming Faith and Politics after the Religious Right, by E.J. Dionne (2009)
2/11 Society Without God, by Phil Zuckerman (2008)
3/10 God, the Failed Hypothesis: How Science Shows that God Does Not Exist, by Victor J. Stenger 2007
10/09 Living Without God by Ronald Aronson (2008)
10/08 Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion
8/08 Richard Dawkins River Out of Eden: a Darwinian view of life