Nonfiction on Religion and Religious Belief
1. 
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
by:
Jon Krakauer
4.01 avg rating β 220,453 ratings 2. 
Muhammad, the World-Changer: An Intimate Portrait
by:
Mohamad Jebara
4.48 avg rating β 566 ratings 
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Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion
by:
Janet Reitman
3.87 avg rating β 9,538 ratings 
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Apocalypse Delayed: The Story of Jehovah's Witnesses
by:
M. James Penton
4.18 avg rating β 102 ratings 7. 
Breaking Their Will: Shedding Light on Religious Child Maltreatment
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Janet Heimlich
4.02 avg rating β 155 ratings 8. 
Relax, It's Just God: How and Why to Talk to Your Kids About Religion When You're Not Religious 4.31 avg rating β 393 ratings
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Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms: Journeys Into the Disappearing Religions of the Middle East
by:
Gerard Russell
4.21 avg rating β 1,526 ratings 10. 
God's Choice: The Total World of a Fundamentalist Christian School
by:
Alan Peshkin
3.95 avg rating β 19 ratings 10. 
Moses: The Sacred Stories in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 1 rating
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The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University
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Kevin Roose
3.98 avg rating β 12,221 ratings 10. 
A Few Hidden Truths: Islam and Indonesian Democracy in The Age of Terror really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 4 ratings
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The Varieties of Religious Experience
by:
William James
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 12,769 ratings 10. 
The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion
by:
Mircea Eliade
4.11 avg rating β 8,891 ratings 10. 
God Hates Flags! Buy This Book or Go to Hell.: With an Introduction by God
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Lin Xun
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 2 ratings 10. 
Did Jesus Exist?: The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth
by:
Bart D. Ehrman
3.86 avg rating β 2,242 ratings 10. 
The Bhagavad Gita 101: a modern, practical guide, plain and simple (The Ancient Hindu Enlightenment Series Book 8)
by:
Matthew Barnes
4.61 avg rating β 103 ratings 10. 
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Christians Against Christianity: How Right-Wing Evangelicals Are Destroying Our Nation and Our Faith 4.20 avg rating β 513 ratings
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Jewish Science Fiction and Fantasy through 1945: Immigrants in the Golden Age 4.50 avg rating β 6 ratings
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Artifacts of Orthodox Childhoods: Personal and Critical Essays
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Dainy Bernstein
4.56 avg rating β 18 ratings 10. 
Know Your Place: Helping White, Southern Evangelicals Cope with the End of The(ir) World 4.41 avg rating β 27 ratings
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You Can't Put God in a Box: Thoughtful Spirituality in a Rational Age
by:
Kelly Besecke
4.69 avg rating β 13 ratings 10. 
The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible As Literally As Possible
by:
A.J. Jacobs
3.76 avg rating β 68,669 ratings 10. 
Our Godly Sexual Beings: The Fellowship of the Mystery
by:
Donna Mack
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 8 ratings 10. 
The Revisionist Theory of the βLiberationβ of Science From Ideology
by:
M.D. Kammari
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 4 ratings 10. 
The Phenomenon of Religion: A Thematic Approach
by:
Moojan Momen
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 15 ratings 38. 
When God Talks Back: Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship with God
by:
T.M. Luhrmann
3.94 avg rating β 954 ratings 38. 
Teachings from the American Earth: Indian Religion and Philosophy
by:
Dennis Tedlock
4.05 avg rating β 61 ratings 38. 
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Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes
by:
Tamim Ansary
4.40 avg rating β 11,844 ratings 
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The Mirror, the Window, and the Wall: The Life-Changing Power of Finding Your True Self
by:
Kenny G Down
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 7 ratings 
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Witness Tampering: My Story of Coming to Christ out of Jehovahβs Witnesses 4.11 avg rating β 9 ratings
51. 
Spirit and Flesh: Life in a Fundamentalist Baptist Church
by:
James M. Ault
3.73 avg rating β 81 ratings 
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The Resurrection Of Christ: A Historical Inquiry
by:
Gerd LΓΌdemann
liked it 3.00 avg rating β 25 ratings 51. 
Is Superman Circumcised?: The Complete Jewish History of the World's Greatest Hero
by:
Roy Schwartz
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 24 ratings 
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The Life of the Qur'an: From Eternal Roots to Enduring Legacy
by:
Mohamad Jebara
4.32 avg rating β 113 ratings 59. 
Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement
by:
Kathryn Joyce
3.78 avg rating β 1,556 ratings 59. 
Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew
by:
Bart D. Ehrman
4.07 avg rating β 6,119 ratings 
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American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation
by:
Jon Meacham
3.86 avg rating β 3,137 ratings 
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You Are Your Own: A Reckoning with the Religious Trauma of Evangelical Christianity
by:
Jamie Lee Finch
4.04 avg rating β 1,605 ratings 
67. 
Rapture Ready!: Adventures in the Parallel Universe of Christian Pop Culture
by:
Daniel Radosh
3.93 avg rating β 1,368 ratings 
67. 
The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions
by:
David Berlinski
3.99 avg rating β 2,002 ratings 
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God's Harvard: A Christian College on a Mission to Save America
by:
Hanna Rosin
3.68 avg rating β 579 ratings 
72. 
Can a Darwinian be a Christian?: The Relationship between Science and Religion
by:
Michael Ruse
3.38 avg rating β 64 ratings 72. 
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Jewish Fantasy Worldwide: Trends in Speculative Stories from Australia to Chile it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 4 ratings
79. 
Righteous: Dispatches from the Evangelical Youth Movement
by:
Lauren Sandler
3.56 avg rating β 174 ratings 79. 
Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources
by:
Martin Lings
4.57 avg rating β 13,299 ratings 
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Jewish Science Fiction and Fantasy of the 1960s and 70s: The Post-Holocaust Authors it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 1 rating
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Spellcasters: Witches and Witchcraft in History, Folklore, and Popular Culture
by:
Pauline Bartel
3.61 avg rating β 28 ratings 83. 
Anthropology of Religion, Magic, and Witchcraft
by:
Rebecca L. Stein
3.93 avg rating β 399 ratings 85. 
Write These Laws on Your Children: Inside the World of Conservative Christian Homeschooling
by:
Robert Kunzman
3.76 avg rating β 130 ratings 
87. 
The Good News Club: The Christian Right's Stealth Assault on America's Children 4.25 avg rating β 459 ratings
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People of the Peyote: Huichol Indian History, Religion, and Survival really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 18 ratings
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Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake-Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia
by:
Dennis Covington
3.93 avg rating β 4,445 ratings 89. 
The Ghost-Dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890
by:
James Mooney
4.16 avg rating β 43 ratings 91. 
Right: Portraits from the Evangelical Ivy League
by:
Jona Frank
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 6 ratings 
93. 
Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion: An Anthropological Study of the Supernatural
by:
Pamela A. Moro
3.96 avg rating β 401 ratings 95. 
Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution
by:
Mona Eltahawy
4.16 avg rating β 4,829 ratings 95. 
Evolving Brains, Emerging Gods: Early Humans and the Origins of Religion
by:
E. Fuller Torrey
4.25 avg rating β 399 ratings 97. 
Light without Fire: The Making of America's First Muslim College
by:
Scott Korb
3.76 avg rating β 29 ratings 
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Mitzvah Girls: Bringing Up the Next Generation of Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn
by:
Ayala Fader
3.85 avg rating β 228 ratings 100. 
Suddenly Jewish: Jews Raised as Gentiles Discover Their Jewish Roots (Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Life)
by:
Barbara Kessel
3.90 avg rating β 115 ratings