Recent Books, Talks, and Interviews about Religion.
Author names and titles are linked to Amazon or YouTube.
The purpose of this short list is to help provide access to recent writing by eminent scientists and scholars on issues relating to religion and religious behavior offering some counter weight to the vast faith based literature on this subject.
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Pascal Boyer (French anthropologist)
Religion Explained (2002)
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The God Delusion (2008)
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Bart D. Ehrman (Leading Bible scholar):
Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why. (2007)
Forged: Writing in the Name of God--Why the Bible's Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are. (2007)
Misquoting Jesus, Stanford Lecture, How Bible Got Tainted (video) (video, in 10 segments)
NB: Finally top Bible scholar "Professor Bart D. Ehrman" leaves Christianity.“ (video)
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Greg M. Epstein (Humanist Chaplain at Harvard University):
Good Without God: What a Billion Nonrelgious People Do Believe (2005)
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Jay R. Feierman (ed.) (Psychiatrist)
The Biology of Religious Behavior: The Evolutionary Origins of Faith and Religion.“ (2009)
(Contains a chapter by the director of this laboratory, Magnus S. Magnusson.)
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The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason (2005)
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50 Reasons People Give for Believing in a God (2008)
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God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (2009)
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Atheist Universe: The Thinking Person's Answer to Christian Fundamentalism (2006)
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The Christ Conspiracy: The Greatest Story Ever Sold. (1999)
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Michel Onfray (French philosopher)
Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam.
(Translated from French: „Traité d‘Athéologie“, 2006).
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Victor J. Stenger (Physicist, astronomer, and philosopher):
God: The Failed Hypothesis. How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist. (2009)
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Why We Believe in God(s): A Concise Guide to the Science of Faith (2011)
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Robert Wright (philosopher & theologist)
The Evolution of God (2009)