Can someone recommend a good book on religions?
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You might perhaps check out a World Religion textbook.  I can suggest "World Religions" by Warren Matthews, but I'm really no expert.\n\nHope your have an enjoyable evening~
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I haven't been able to find a website with that name, but here is a list of the world religions...
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Try , www.islamic-message.net . \nThis site , sends free books about islam for muslims and non muslims around the world , FREE!
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Check out these sites, I'm sure you will find them fastinating if you are interested in sacred texts.\n\nhttp://www.gnosis.org/library.html\nhttp://davidwiley.com/religion.html\nhttp://www.ibiblio.org/expo/deadsea.scrolls.exhibit/intro.html\nhttp://www.sacred-texts.com/index.htm\nhttp://www.avesta.org/avesta.html\nhttp://www.sacred-texts.com/chr/herm/index.htm
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Rosemary's links are good, and THIS is the best one:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnosticism
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Given the results of the midterm elections, and given the fact that large groups of American evangelical Christians seem to have changed voting patterns and abandoned Republican candidates, I'd nominate David Kuo's book, _Tempting Faith: An Inside Story of Political Seduction_.\n\nIt was on the NY Times Bestseller list the month before the elections, and even folks who don't read much heard about this book, since it got mass media coverage.
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Most important, have her learn about all religions, not just Christianity, and not just "live" religions. What's the historical context behind religions -- how were they created and used, and why? What's different between Zeus and the Christian God? Who's right? Why? To paraphrase Richard Dawkins, there are many religions. Everyone's an atheist about every religion but their own, I just take it one God further.\n\nHistory is good. Aristotle, Pythagoras, Galileo, etc. all had wildly varying affects on or from the church. Why is that? What were the arguments that caused Christian fragmentation? What was considered heretical during the Inquisition?\n\nHave her read about interesting scientists, like Feynman's books. Read A Brief History of Time or A Short History of Nearly Everything. Rent Carl Sagan's Cosmos and watch it together.\n\nTalk to her. Have her get used to questioning assumptions, searching for answers, and not taking the intellectually lazy way out. Have her be OK with uncertainty and not knowing something (but wanting to learn it).\n\nTeach her the basic scientific method (observe, hypothesize, test). Explain Occam's Razor. Demonstrate how they work.\n\nLet her play. Let her see that beauty, and magic, and love, and life, and happiness, and goodness, don't require an invisible omniscient all-powerful deity to exist. Teach her that morals don't come from fear of hell, but from respect for others and herself.\n\nAnd, maybe, "accidentally" set http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/ as her browser home page ;-)
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http://www.geocities.com/odinbrotherhood/main.htm\nhttp://www.witchvox.com/va/dt_va.html?a=usal&c=words&id=10649\n\nBook:\n TEMPLE OF WOTAN Holy Book Aryan Tribes, Odinism, Asatru
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Here ya go...\nWicca: The Old Religion in the New Age by Vivienne Crowley\nThe Complete Book of Witchcraft by Raymond Buckland\nhttp://wyndhorselair.tripod.com/bookoflaw.html\nhttp://www.collegewicca.com/\nhttp://www.empathys.co.uk/main.html\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gardnerian_Wicca\nhttp://www.glasstemple.com/basics/index.php?conjure=general\nhttp://www.tylwythteg.com/glossary.html\nhttp://www.witchipedia.org/index.php?title=Main_Page\nhttp://www.modernwiccan.com/\nhttp://www.betwixt.org/\nhttp://www.pagan-heart.co.uk/home.html\nhttp://www.sacred-magick.com/ \nhttp://bluemoonwicca.org/solitary.html\nhttp://www.geocities.com/k_garber/contents.html?20055\nhttp://www.witchway.net/\nhttp://earthspirits.org/\nhttp://www.wiccan-refuge.com/index.html\nhttp://www.shadowdrake.com/witchcraft/index.html\nhttp://www.jackowitch.com/\nhttp://www.crystalinks.com/wicca.html\nhttp://www.unc.edu/~reddeer/\nhttp://www.religioustolerance.org/witchcra.htm\nhttp://www.angelfire.com/on/wicca/MainPage.html\nhttp://www.paganlibrary.com/\nhttp://www.paganlore.com/learning.html\nhttp://www.angelfire.com/goth/wiccanway/\nhttp://wiccanet.us/\nhttp://www.witchology.com/\nhttp://www.celticcrow.com/\nhttp://www.witchvox.com/\nhttp://www.witchs-brew.org/masterindex.html\nhttp://www.summerlands.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi\nhttp://www.wiccaforbeginners.com/\nusername enter:  wicca\npassword enter: 18+only\nhttp://paganwiccan.about.com/cs/wicca101/tp/aatpbeg_books.htm-Great books for those starting\nhttp://www.kindredborne.org/archives/wicca101.html\nhttp://wicca4beginners.tripod.com/\nhttp://www.afreshhorizon.co.uk/wicca_beginner/wicca_beginner.htm\nhttp://www.fortunecity.com/skyscraper/lead/517/id29.htm\nhttp://www.ecauldron.com/newpagan.php\nhttp://lotuspond.silentblue.net/wicca/wiccaadvice.html\nhttp://www.llewellyn.com/bookstore/book.php?pn=J751  -a good selection of books\nhttp://www.catanna.com/paganism101.htm\nhttp://www.whitewicca.com/\nhttp://www.sticksstonesnbeyond.com/wittanwicca.htm\nhttp://www.wingsfortheheart.com/wicca.htm\nhttp://www.theblessedbee.com/readinglist.html  <---good reading list\nhttp://www.angelfire.com/on/wicca/MainPage.html\nhttp://www.witchcraft.org/info.htm\nhttp://www.iit.edu/~phillips/personal/basic/WICCA.HTML\nhttp://www.iamawitch.com/freepages/wiccansanctuary/silvershomepage.html
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Is there a Department of Religious Studies, or Religion, or Comparative Religion at your university?\n\nIf so, that's the place to start.  \n\nIf not, check out courses in Philosophy, History, Classics, and Anthropology.
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Not too sure about web sites but most of your answers can be found in A Muslim Primer: Beginner's Guide to Islam by Ira G Zepp and Islam: an Introduction by Annemarie Schimmel
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There is a book called The Gnostic Bible, edited by Willis Barnstone and Marvin Meyer.  Also look at books by Elaine Pagels, she had done a lot of research on Gnosticism, and her books are VERY readable.  Her book Beyond Belief would be a good place to start.\n\nIf you wouldn't mind, take a minute to answer my question on Gnosticism here:\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AsRYRzyKVbpNmHhm3Caj3qvsy6IX?qid=1006041910948
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unsure of website, but a great book is "knowing your bible 101" Good summaries of each book and background of it. Good luck! Also available - Christianity 101
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Absolutely...a really good book to read is "Misquoting Jesus" by Bart Ehrman.  He did a lot of research on this topic.
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The Apologetics Index has much info on many forms of religion and of the ones most considered to be Cults.\nYour  list would not be complete without this.
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http://www.sacred-texts.com
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yea i read them a while ago and thought they were interesting.his book"what god wants" is also good,because the answer he gives which is "nothing" is true.how could god want anything-god is complete already.\nif you found those books interesting you would probably like eckhart tolle's books too."the power of now "and his latest one "a new earth."