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Include books by the same authorThe Jesus Family Tomb: The Discovery, the Investigation & the Evidence That Could Change History
Simcha Jacobovici, Charles Pellegrino · 240 pages
In 1980, workers at a Jerusalem construction site accidentally uncovered a cache of bone boxes from early Christian times. When reports about the crypt discovery leaked out 16 years later, the London Sunday Times headlined the story as "The Tomb That Dare Not Speak Its Name." Now the full story will be told. In 2005, documentary filmmaker Simcha Jacobovici obtained permission to break through the
God is Red: The Secret Story of How Christianity Survived and Flourished in Communist China
Liao Yiwu · 231 pages
When journalist Liao Yiwu first stumbled upon a vibrant Christian community in the officially secular China, he knew little about Christianity. In fact, he'd been taught that religion was evil, and that those who believed in it were deluded, cultists, or imperialist spies. But as a writer whose work has been banned in China and has even landed him in jail, Liao felt a kinship with Chinese Christia
The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power
Jeff Sharlet · 454 pages
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 powerfulThey are the Family—fundamentalism's avant-garde, waging spiritual war in the halls of American power and around the globe. They consider themselves the new chosen—congressmen, generals, and foreign dictators
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
Lawrence Wright · 448 pages
"Based on more than two hundred personal interviews with both current and former Scientologists--both famous and less well known--and years of archival research, Lawrence Wright uses his extraordinary investigative skills to uncover for us the inner workings of the Church of Scientology: its origins in the imagination of science-fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard; its struggles to find acceptance as a
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
Jon Krakauer · 399 pages
Jon Krakauer's literary reputation rests on insightful chronicles of lives conducted at the outer limits. In UNDER THE BANNER OF HEAVEN, he shifts his focus from extremes of physical adventure to extremes of religious belief within our own borders. At the core of his book is an appalling double murder committed by two Mormon fundamentalist brothers, Ron and Dan Lafferty, who insist they receive
Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion
Janet Reitman · 464 pages
Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion, is based on confidential documents, more than 100 interviews with current and former Scientologists, and five years of research. This book confirms the astonishing truth within the controversial religion. Scientology conjures images of its celebrity believers, its notably aggressive response to criticism or its attacks on psychiat
God's Bankers: A History of Money and Power at the Vatican
Gerald Posner · 742 pages
From a master chronicler of legal and financial misconduct, a magnificent investigation nine years in the making, this book traces the political intrigue and inner workings of the Catholic Church. Decidedly not about faith, belief in God, or religious doctrine, this book is about the church's accumulation of wealth and its byzantine entanglements with financial markets across the world. Told throu
The Aleppo Codex: The True Story of Obsession, Faith, and the International Pursuit of an Ancient Bible
Matti Friedman · 318 pages
This true-life detective story unveils the journey of a sacred text--the tenth-century annotated bible known as the Aleppo Codex--from its hiding place in a Syrian synagogue to the newly founded state of Israel.
Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge
Terence McKenna · 323 pages
Gods and Myths of Northern Europe
Hilda Roderick Ellis Davidson · 251 pages
Surveys the pre-Christian beliefs of the Scandinavian and Germanic peoples.
The Lincoln Hypothesis: A Modern-day Abolitionist Investigates the Possible Connection Between Joseph Smith, the Book of Mormon, and Abraham Lincoln
Timothy Ballard · 256 pages
The Malleus Maleficarum
Heinrich Kramer, Jakob Sprenger · 278 pages
The Messianic Legacy
Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, Henry Lincoln · 500 pages
No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith
Fawn M. Brodie · 536 pages
The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts
Israel Finkelstein, Neil Asher Silberman · 400 pages
"In The Bible Unearthed two leading scholars, an archaeologist and a historian, combine a tour of the field of biblical archaeology with a explanation of how and why the Bible's historical saga differs so dramatically from the archaeological finds. They explain what the Bible says about ancient Israel and show how it diverges sharply from archaeological reality. They then offer a new version of t
The Lost Gospel: The Quest for the Gospel of Judas Iscariot
Herbert Krosney · 309 pages
Describes how the Gospel of Judas was discovered, why it was historically denounced as heresy, and what it says about the disciple's role in the plan for salvation.
The Bell Tower: The Case of Jack the Ripper Finally Solved... in San Francisco
Robert Graysmith · 552 pages
The Case for Christ: A Journalist's Personal Investigation of the Evidence of Jesus
Lee Strobel · 320 pages
**Is there credible proof that Jesus of Nazareth really is the Son of God? In *The Case for Christ*, Lee Strobel, former legal editor of the *Chicago Tribune* and *New York Times* bestselling author, retraces his own spiritual journey from atheism to faith and builds a captivating case for Christ's divinity.** In this revised and updated edition of *The Case for Christ*, Strobel cross-examines a
Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
Casey Cep · 314 pages
Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy
Eric Metaxas · 615 pages
From the New York Times bestselling author of Amazing Grace, a groundbreaking biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, one of the greatest heroes of the twentieth century, the man who stood up to Hitler. A definitive, deeply moving narrative, Bonhoeffer is a story of moral courage in the face of the monstrous evil that was Nazism. After discovering the fire of true faith in a Harlem church, Bonhoef
A History of German Jewish Bible Translation
Abigail Gillman · 357 pages
Between 1780 and 1937, Jews in Germany produced numerous new translations of the Hebrew Bible into German. Intended for Jews who were trilingual, reading Yiddish, Hebrew, and German, they were meant less for religious use than to promote educational and cultural goals. Not only did translations give Jews vernacular access to their scripture without Christian intervention, but they also helped show
The Jesus Papers: Exposing the Greatest Cover-up in History
Michael Baigent · 352 pages
What if everything you think you know about Jesus is wrong? In The Jesus Papers, Michael Baigent reveals the truth about Jesus's life and crucifixion. Despite -- or rather because of -- all the celebration and veneration that have surrounded the figure of Jesus for centuries, Baigent asserts that Jesus and the circumstances leading to his death have been heavily mythologized.As a religious histori
The Religion of the Ancient Celts
John Arnott MacCulloch · 338 pages
To summon a dead religion from its forgotten grave and to make it tell its story, would require an enchanter's wand. Other old faiths, of Egypt, Babylon, Greece, Rome, are known to us. But in their case liturgies, myths, theogonies, theologies, and the accessories of cult, remain to yield their report of the outward form of human belief and aspiration. How scanty, on the other hand, are the record