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I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is. - Albert Camus.

Selecting new nonfiction books on religion for the Kindle can be problematical. Many readers have strongly-held religious beliefs. One person's religious classic is another's foolish drivel. Here I attempt a middle ground, choosing recently-published books on matters spiritual which I hope will appeal to a wide audience of Kindle readers.

After the Prophet: The Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split in Islam, by Lesley Hazleton. Doubleday. ISLAM/HISTORY. Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (2 reviews). Kindle edition $14.23. Text-to-Speech: Disabled.
"... relates the dramatic tragic story at the heart of the ongoing rivalry between Shia and Sunni Islam. Even as Muhammad lay dying, the battle over his successor had begun. Pitting the family of his favorite wife, the controversial Aisha, against supporters of his son-in-law, the philosopher-warrior Ali, the struggle would reach its breaking point fifty years later in Iraq, when soldiers of the first Sunni dynasty massacred seventy-two warriors led by Muhammad's grandson Hussein at Karbala. Hussein's agonizing ordeal at Karbala was soon to become the Passion story at the core of Shia Islam. Hazleton's vivid, gripping prose provides extraordinary insight into the origins of the world's most volatile blend of politics and religion..." - Amazon.
$9.99 or less alternative: Islam: A Short History, by Karen Armstrong.

Awakening the Buddha Within: Eight Steps to Enlightenment, by Lama Surya Das. Doubleday. BUDDHISM. Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (105 reviews). Kindle edition $9.99. Text-to-Speech: Disabled.
"Lama Surya Das, the most highly trained American lama in the Tibetan tradition, presents the first comprehensive book of Western Buddhism for the modern-day spiritual seeker. Buddhism offers a profound yet practical path to enlightenment... The radical and compelling message of Buddhism tells us that each of us has the wisdom, awareness, love, and power of the Buddha within; yet most of us are too often like sleeping Buddhas. Surya Das shows how we can awaken to who we really are and thus walk the liberating, peaceful path of mindful and compassionate living. With lively language, meditations, and spiritual practices, this unique book provides a bridge between East and West, past, present, and future." - book jacket.

The Case for God, by Karen Armstrong. Knopf. HISTORY OF RELIGION. Amazon customer rating: 3 1/2 stars (6 reviews). Kindle edition $15.37. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"Moving from the Paleolithic age to the present, Karen Armstrong details the great lengths to which humankind has gone in order to experience a sacred reality that it called by many names, such as God, Brahman, Nirvana, Allah, or Dao. Focusing especially on Christianity but including Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Chinese spiritualities, Armstrong examines the diminished impulse toward religion in our own time, when a significant number of people either want nothing to do with God or question the efficacy of faith. Why has God become unbelievable? Why is it that atheists and theists alike now think and speak about God in a way that veers so profoundly from the thinking of our ancestors?... And she makes a powerful, convincing argument for drawing on the insights of the past in order to build a faith that speaks to the needs of our dangerously polarized age..." - from the hardcover edition.
$9.99 or less alternative: Armstrong's earlier The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions.

The Expanded Bible: New Testament. Thomas Nelson. Amazon customer rating:3 1/2 stars (40 reviews). Kindle edition $9.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"reflects the latest scholarship, current English, and the needs of contemporary students of the Bible. This new testament includes a multitude of study aids right in line with the text. Expanded translations and other helps make it possible for you to study the Bible while you read..." - Amazon.

The Future of Faith, by Harvey Cox. HarperCollins. RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY. Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (3 reviews). Kindle edition $9.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"...legendary Harvard religion scholar Harvey Cox offers up a new interpretation of the history and future of religion. The author of When Jesus Came to Harvard and The Secular City, Cox explains why Christian beliefs and dogma are giving way to new grassroots movements rooted in social justice and spiritual experience.

If God Is Good: Faith in the Midst of Suffering and Evil, by Randy Alcorn. Multnomah Books. THEOLOGY/APOLOGETICS. Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (24 reviews). Kindle edition $9.99. Text-to-Speech: Disabled.
The crossover fiction and nonfiction author of the half-million-selling Heaven throws down a heavy response to a spate of recent bestselling atheism books. Because the main argument of atheists against the existence of God is suffering in the world, Alcorn lays out a weighty and classically reasoned argument to the problem of suffering in this thoroughly modern book. His biggest trump card is that atheists were hardly the first to ask about suffering and evil. Ancient writers did, and 'the fact that the Bible raises the problem of evil gives us full permission to do so.' ... Not academic but well-reasoned, Alcorn may not convince atheists, but apart from them readership is wide open." - Publishers Weekly.

A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life, by Donald Miller. Thomas Nelson. MEDITATIONS/SPIRITUALITY. Kindle edition $9.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"...details one man's opportunity to edit his life as if he were a character in a movie. Years after writing a best-selling memoir, Donald Miller went into a funk and spent months sleeping in and avoiding his publisher. One story had ended, and Don was unsure how to start another. But he gets rescued by two movie producers who want to make a movie based on his memoir. When they start fictionalizing Don's life for film - changing a meandering memoir into a structured narrative - the real-life Don starts a journey to edit his actual life into a better story. A Million Miles in a Thousand Years details that journey and challenges readers to reconsider what they strive for in life. It shows how to get a second chance at life the first time around." - Amazon.

The New Atheism: Taking a Stand for Science and Reason, by Victor J. Stenger. Prometheus Books. ATHEISM/SCIENCE & RELIGION. Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (8 reviews). Kindle edition $9.59. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"In recent years a number of bestselling books have forcefully argued that belief in God can no longer be defended on rational or empirical grounds, and that the scientific worldview has rendered obsolete the traditional beliefs held by Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. The authors of these books - Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, and Victor J. Stenger - have come to be known as the "New Atheists." Predictably, their works have been controversial and attracted a good deal of critical reaction. In this new book, Victor J. Stenger...reviews and expands upon the principles of New Atheism and answers many of its critics. He demonstrates in detail that naturalism--the view that all of reality is reducible to matter and nothing else--is sufficient to explain everything we observe in the universe, from the most distant galaxies to the inner workings of the brain that result in the phenomenon of mind... Stenger argues that this 'way of nature' is far superior to the traditional supernatural monotheisms, which history shows can lead to a host of evils.." - Amazon.

Rashi, by Elie Wiesel. Schocken. JUDAISM/BIOGRAPHY. Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (3 reviews). Kindle edition $9.99. Text-to-Speech: Disabled.
"From Elie Wiesel, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, comes a magical book that introduces us to the towering figure of Rashi - Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki - the great biblical and Talmudic commentator of the Middle Ages. Wiesel brilliantly evokes the world of medieval European Jewry, a world of profound scholars and closed communities ravaged by outbursts of anti-Semitism and decimated by the Crusades. The incomparable scholar Rashi, whose phrase-by-phrase explication of the oral law has been included in every printing of the Talmud since the fifteenth century, was also a spiritual and religious leader: His perspective, encompassing both the mundane and the profound, is timeless..." - Amazon.


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