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Ideas that Shaped Our Modern World

Paleolithic Beginnings

The Cambridge Illustrated History of Prehistoric Art
Paul G. Bahn
Mesopotamia
Jean Bottéro
Religion in Ancient Mesopotamia
Jean Bottéro
1177 B.C.
Eric H. Cline
The Shamans of Prehistory
Jean Clottes & David Lewis-Williams
Myths from Mesopotamia
Stephanie Dalley
Secret Societies
Arkon Daraul
The End of the Bronze Age
Robert Drews
The Wind Is My Mother
Bear Heart
The Leopard’s Tale
Ian Hodder
The Treasures of Darkness
Thorkild Jacobsen
Babylonian Wisdom Literature
W. G. Lambert
Nyae Nyae !Kung Beliefs and Rites
Lorna J. Marshall
Research in Anthropological Topics
Alicia Meza
Art and Human Development
Constance Milbrath and Cynthis Lightfoot
Thoughtful Foragers
Steven J. Mithen
Religions of the Axial Age
Prof. Mark W. Muesse
Ancient Indian Historical Tradition
F. E. Pargiter
Stonehenge
Mike Parker Pearson et al.
Harappan Civilization
Gregory L. Possehl
Dawn and Devolution of the Indus Civilization
S. R. Rao
The World’s Last Mysteries
Reader's Digest
Plato Prehistorian
Mary Settegast
Affluence Without Abundance
James Suzman
Secrets of the Sands
Harry Thurston
The Mind in the Cave
David Lewis Williams
Inside the Neolithic Mind
David Lewis-Williams & David Pearce
The Evolution of God
Robert Wright

Connecting with the Gods

The Case for God
Karen Armstrong
The Great Transformation
Karen Armstrong
The Birth of the Gods and the Origins of Agriculture
Jacques Cauvin
The Babylonian Genesis
Alexander Heidel
Man and His Gods
Homer W. Smith

Axial Age Thought

The Great Transformation
Karen Armstrong
Zoroastrians
Mary Boyce
The Bible Unearthed
Israel Finkelstein & Neil Asher Silberman
The Upanishads
Hindu Texts
The Odyssey
Homer
Socrates, Buddha, Confucius, Jesus
Karl Jaspers
The Origin and Goal of History
Karl Jaspers
Religions of the Axial Age
Prof. Mark W. Muesse
Ancient China Simplified
Edward Harper Parker
Religious Evolution and the Axial Age
Stephen K. Sanderson
BOOK REPORT
Divine Harmony
John Strohmeier & Peter Westbrook
Ancient Judaism
Max Weber
Modes of Religiosity
Harvey Whitehouse
Shamanism
Michael Winkelman
The Dawn and Twilight of Zoroastrianism
R.C. Zaehner

Origins of Christianity

City of God
Saint Augustine
Jesus and the Zealots
S.G.F. Brandon
The Keys of Saint Peter
Ernest de Bunsen
Our Pagan Christmas
R.J. Condon
Myth, Magic, and Morals
Frederick Cornwallis Conybeare
Bible Myths and Their Parallels in Other Religions
Thomas Doane
Birth of a Worldview
Robert Doran
How Jesus Became God
Bart D. Ehrman
The Triumph of Christianity
Bart D. Ehrman
The Pagan Background of Early Christianity
W.R. Halliday
Four Views on Salvation in a Pluralistic World
John Hick et al.
The Marketing of Christianity
Institute for Cultural Research
Pagan Saviours
Institute for Cultural Research
Antiquities of the Jews
Josephus
The Imitation of Christ
Thomas à Kempis
Against Heresies
Saint Irenaeus of Lyons
The Secret Teachings of Jesus
Marvin Meyer
The Gnostic Gospels of Jesus
Marvin Meyer
The Gospel of Thomas
Dr. A. Nyland
The Gnostic Gospels
Elaine Pagels
The Letters of the Younger Pliny
Younger Pliny
Religious Evolution and the Axial Age
Stephen K. Sanderson
BOOK REPORT
Judaism and Christian Beginnings
Samuel Sandmel
Battle for the Mind
William Sargant
Jewish Christianity: Factional Disputes in the Early Church
Hans Joachim Schoeps
The Passover Plot
Hugh J. Schonfield
The Fourth Gospel: Tales of a Jewish Mystic
John Shelby Spong
The Triumph of Christianity
Rodney Stark
The Oxford Study Bible
M. Jack Suggs et al., eds.
Annals of Imperial Rome
Tacitus
Jesus the Jew
Geza Vermes
Jesus
Geza Vermes
The Nativity
Geza Vermes
Jesus: A Life
A.N. Wilson
How Jesus Became Christian
Barrie Wilson, Ph.D.

Origins of Islam

The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy
Peter Adamson & Richard C. Taylor
The Islamic Jesus
Mustafa Akyol
Muhammad
Karen Armstrong
No god but God
Reza Aslan
The Social Origins of Islam
Mohammed A. Bamyeh
Narratives of Islamic Origins
Fred Donner
Muhammad and the Believers
Fred McGraw Donner
The Life of Muhammad
A. Guillaume
The Qur’an
M. A. S. Abdel Haleem
Four Views on Salvation in a Pluralistic World
John Hick et al.
Muhammad, the World-Changer
Mohamad Jebara
Christ in Islam and Christianity
Neal Robinson
The Prophet Muhammad
Barnaby Rogerson
Jewish Christianity: Factional Disputes in the Early Church
Hans Joachim Schoeps
The Way of the Sufi
Idries Shah
The Sufis
Idries Shah
Tales of the Dervishes
Idries Shah
Caravan of Dreams
Idries Shah
Selections from the Koran
Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah
The Places Where Men Pray Together
Paul Wheatley

The Journey of Classical Greek Knowledge to the Western World

The House of Wisdom
Jim Al-Khalili
Pathfinders
Jim Al-Khalili
The Civilization of the Middle Ages
Norman F. Cantor
Philosophical Foundations of Education
Sheila G. Dunn
Greek Thought, Arabic Culture
Dimitri Gutas
The Cave and the Light
Arthur Herman
The Guide for the Perplexed
Moses Maimonides
The Ornament of the World
María Rosa Menocal
Granada
Steven Nightingale
Aristotle’s Children
Richard E. Rubenstein
The Sufis
Idries Shah
The Influence of Islam on Medieval Europe
W. Montgomery Watt

Stories and Storytelling

Sacred Nature
Karen Armstrong
BOOK REPORT
Louder than Words
Benjamin K. Bergen
How Religion Evolved
Robin Dunbar
BOOK REPORT
How Language Began
Daniel L. Everett
Wonderworks
Angus Fletcher
God 4.0
Robert Ornstein with Sally M. Ornstein
BOOK REPORT
Religious Evolution and the Axial Age
Stephen K. Sanderson
BOOK REPORT
Caravan of Dreams
Idries Shah
The Sufis
Idries Shah
Tales of the Dervishes
Idries Shah
World Tales
Idries Shah
The Science of Storytelling
Will Storr

Additional Titles in This Section

Myths and Myth-Makers
John Fiske.
The Rise of the West
William H. McNeill.
The Psychology of Consciousness
Robert Ornstein.
The Evolution of Consciousness
Robert Ornstein.
The Commanding Self
Idries Shah.