Correctives on Religious History
1. 
The Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles: Their Nature and Legacy
by:
Ronald Hutton
4.11 avg rating — 543 ratings 2. 
The Witch: A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present
by:
Ronald Hutton
3.63 avg rating — 1,645 ratings 
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Destroyer of the gods: Early Christian Distinctiveness in the Roman World
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Larry W. Hurtado
4.18 avg rating — 621 ratings 
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Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment: Popular Religious Belief in Early New England
by:
David D. Hall
3.81 avg rating — 203 ratings 
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The Rise and Fall of Merry England: The Ritual Year 1400-1700
by:
Ronald Hutton
3.89 avg rating — 80 ratings 16. 
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Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels (The IVP Bible Dictionary Series)
by:
Joel B. Green
4.35 avg rating — 503 ratings 
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Dictionary of the Later New Testament and its Developments
by:
Ralph P. Martin
4.31 avg rating — 93 ratings 
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The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Book of Going Forth by Day: The Complete Papyrus of Ani
by:
Anonymous
3.91 avg rating — 5,991 ratings 27. 
The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess
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Starhawk
4.04 avg rating — 10,539 ratings 
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The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise: Muslims, Christians, and Jews under Islamic Rule in Medieval Spain 3.80 avg rating — 684 ratings
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Witches and Neighbors: The Social and Cultural Context of European Witchcraft
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Robin Briggs
3.76 avg rating — 298 ratings 36. 
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Krishna: The Beautiful Legend of God (Srimad Bhagavata Purana Book X)
by:
Anonymous
4.30 avg rating — 90 ratings 39. 
Discovering God: The Origins of the Great Religions and the Evolution of Belief
by:
Rodney Stark
3.74 avg rating — 235 ratings 40. 
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Miracles: The Credibility of the New Testament Accounts
by:
Craig S. Keener
4.41 avg rating — 191 ratings 46. 
Beyond Physicalism: Toward Reconciliation of Science and Spirituality
by:
Edward F. Kelly
4.11 avg rating — 44 ratings 47. 
This Is the Sun?: Zeitgeist and Religion (Volume I: Comparative Religion)
by:
Albert McIlhenny
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
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Rational Choice Theory and Religion (Point/Counterpoint
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Lawrence Young
3.17 avg rating — 6 ratings 50. 
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Jesus as a Figure in History, Second Edition: How Modern Historians View the Man from Galilee 3.83 avg rating — 76 ratings
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Drudgery Divine: On the Comparison of Early Christianities and the Religions of Late Antiquity 3.75 avg rating — 73 ratings
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The Religion of the Mithras Cult in the Roman Empire: Mysteries of the Unconquered Sun
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Roger B. Beck
3.78 avg rating — 37 ratings 56. 
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Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
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Tom Holland
4.27 avg rating — 10,413 ratings 58. 
Ignatius of Antioch and the Parting of the Ways: Early Jewish-Christian Relations 3.94 avg rating — 16 ratings
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The Cult of Ra: Sun-Worship in Ancient Egypt
by:
Stephen Quirke
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 50 ratings 65. 
Hitler's Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich
by:
Eric Kurlander
3.72 avg rating — 593 ratings 66. 
Coptic Civilization: Two Thousand Years of Christianity in Egypt
by:
Gawdat Gabra
4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings 
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Representations of Jews in Late Medieval and Early Modern German Literature: Second Printing
by:
John D. Martin
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 70. 
The Scholastics and the Jews: Coexistence, Conversion, and the Medieval Origins of Tolerance
by:
Edmund Mazza
4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings 71. 
The African Memory of Mark: Reassessing Early Church Tradition
by:
Thomas C. Oden
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 45 ratings 72. 
How Africa Shaped the Christian Mind: Rediscovering the African Seedbed of Western Christianity
by:
Thomas C. Oden
3.70 avg rating — 458 ratings 73. 
The Ancient Traditions of the Virgin Mary's Dormition and Assumption 4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
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So Many Christians, So Few Lions: Is There Christianophobia in the United States?
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George Yancey
3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings 75. 
Hostile Environment: Understanding and Responding to Anti-Christian Bias
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George Yancey
4.21 avg rating — 14 ratings 76. 
Reckless Rites: Purim and the Legacy of Jewish Violence
by:
Elliott Horowitz
4.05 avg rating — 19 ratings 77. 
Daily Life of the Jews in the Middle Ages (The Greenwood Press Daily Life Through History Series)
by:
Norman Roth
4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings 
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Jesus Outside the New Testament: An Introduction to the Ancient Evidence (Studying the Historical Jesus 3.92 avg rating — 106 ratings
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Encountering the Sacred: The Debate on Christian Pilgrimage in Late Antiquity (Volume 38) 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Two Nations in Your Womb: Perceptions of Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 20 ratings
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East and West: The Making of a Rift in the Church from Apostolic Times until the Council of Florence
by:
Henry Chadwick
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 34 ratings 85. 
The Church in Ancient Society: From Galilee to Gregory the Great
by:
Henry Chadwick
4.24 avg rating — 17 ratings 
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Marriage, Celibacy, and Heresy in Ancient Christianity: The Jovinianist Controversy
by:
David G. Hunter
4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings 90. 
A Multitude of All Peoples: Engaging Ancient Christianity's Global Identity
by:
Vince L. Bantu
4.31 avg rating — 134 ratings 91. 
Defending Constantine: The Twilight of an Empire and the Dawn of Christendom 4.12 avg rating — 492 ratings
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Christianity in India: Conversion, Community Development, and Religious Freedom 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Church of the East: An Illustrated History of Assyrian Christianity
by:
Christoph Baumer
4.24 avg rating — 29 ratings 96. 
The Church Going Glocal: Mission and Globalisation (Regnum Edinburgh 2010 Series) it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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ICNT: Acts of the Apostles: An Exegetical and Contextual Commentary (INDIA COMMENTARY ON THE NEW TESTAMENT Book 5) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Pentecostals, Proselytization, and Anti-Christian Violence in Contemporary India
by:
Chad M. Bauman
4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings 100. 
Christian Identity and Dalit Religion in Hindu India, 1868-1947
by:
Chad M. Bauman
4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings