Showing posts with label Religion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Religion. Show all posts

Saturday, March 19, 2011

System of Nature

Author:  Harvey, Jerry B.

  • Hardcover: 358 pages
  • Publisher: Lenox Hill. Pub. & Dist. Co. (1970)
  • Language English
  • Price: $25

Thursday, March 17, 2011

Science and Christian Belief

Author : Coulson, C.A.
  • Hardcover: 159 pages
  • Publisher: Fontana Books(1958)
  • Language: English
  • Condition: Good
  • Price: $8

The Gospel of Rationalism

 Author : Gorham, Charles T.
  • Hardcover: 116 pages
  • Publisher: Watts & co; 1St Edition edition (1942)
  • Language: English
  • Condition: Good
  • Price: $10

HAJJ (The Pilgrimage )

Author : Shariati, Ali. Dr.
Editor: Behzadnia, Ali A. M.D. & Denny, Najla.
  • Paperback: 160 pages
  • Publisher: Free Islamic Literature Inc. (1978)
  • Language: English
  • Condition:  Good
  • Price: $8
This review is from: Hajj: Reflection on Its Rituals (Paperback)
As an American convert to Islam who performed hajj last year, I highly recommend this book to help remove all the mystery of what hajj is all about. Even many hajis have no idea why they are doing what they are doing other than their religious books tell them it is what they are supposed to do. Someone planning on going for hajj will get much more out of the experience by reading this beautiful, eloquent book first. And for the non-Muslim, a reading of this book should provide great insight into the purpose of the ritual of Islam that is so often mind-boggling to the outsider.

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Religion May Be hazardous To Your health


Author : Chesen, Eli. M.D.
  • Paperback: 139 pages
  • Publisher: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc. (1974)
  • Language: English 
  • Condition: Good
  • Price: $4
This review is from: Religion May Be Hazardous to Your Health, (Hardcover)
Although this book is over thirty years old, I heartily recommend it. As a person who was badly burned by fundamentalist Christianiy in childhood, I know that Dr. Chesen tells it like it is. I still bear the emotional scars of my upbringing. (I think the previous review was done by a person who didn't read the book). The author makes it abundantly clear that he is not against religion, per se, but how it is presented to people, especially children.
I have completely rejected the whole of Christianity and am now a heretical New Ager. I am living proof of the validity of Dr. Chesen's ideas.