Sincerely Held: American Secularism and Its Believers (Class 200: New Studies in Religion)
By: Charles McCrary
4.42
Format: 308 pages, Paperback
A novel account of the relationship between sincerity, religious freedom, and the secular in the Un…
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1. Watchmen
By: Alan Moore , John Higgins , Dave Gibbons
4.38
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
This Hugo Award-winning graphic novel chronicles the fall from grace of a group of super-heroes pla… read more
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"Never despair. Never surrender."-Alan Moore, Watchmen
"I did it thirty-five minutes ago."-Alan Moore, Watchmen
"It doesn’t matter how “successful"-Alan Moore, Watchmen
"The superman exists and he's American."-Alan Moore, Watchmen
2. Orientalism
By: None , Edward W. Said
4.12
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the W… read more
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- history
"Toda época y toda sociedad recrea sus «otros»."-None, Orientalism
"الإستشرق في جوهره مذهب سياسي فُرِضَ فَرْضاً على الشرق لأن الشرق كان أضعف من الغرب، وإنه تجاهل اختلاف الشرق الراجع إلى ضعفه."-None, Orientalism
"It seems a common human failing to prefer the schematic authority of a text to the disorientations of direct encounters with the human."-None, Orientalism
"إن مناقشات الشرق كانت تتسم بالغياب الكامل للشرق، لكن المرء يحس بأن المستشرق ومايقوله حاضران، ومع ذلك فيجب ألا ننسى أن الذي يمكِّن المستشرق من الحضور هو الغياب الفعلي للشرق."-None, Orientalism
3. The Myth of Disenchantment: Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences
By: None , Jason Ānanda Josephson-Storm
4.04
Format: None pages, Paperback
A great many theorists have argued that the defining feature of modernity is that people no longer … read more
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- religion
- history
4. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
By: Michel Foucault , Alan Sheridan , None , None , None
3.35
Format: 520 pages, Paperback
Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . In this brilliant work, the mos… read more
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- history
5. The Myth of Persecution: How Early Christians Invented a Story of Martyrdom
By: Candida R. Moss
3.69
Format: 98 pages, Hardcover
In The Myth of Persecution, Candida Moss, a leading expert on early Christianity, reveals how the e… read more
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- religion
- history
6. Between Heaven and Earth: The Religious Worlds People Make and the Scholars Who Study Them
By: Robert A. Orsi
3.47
Format: 1 pages, Paperback
Between Heaven and Earthexplores the relationships men, women, and children have formed with the Vi… read more
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7. Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity
By: None
3.62
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Opening with the provocative query "what might an anthropology of the secular look like?" this book… read more
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8. Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life
By: Emily Nagoski
4.29
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
An essential exploration of why and how women’s sexuality works—based on groundbreaking research an… read more
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"What turns us on (or off) is learned from culture, in much the same way children learn vocabulary and accents from culture."-Emily Nagoski, Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life
"You can't make someone be patient any more than you can make someone have an orgasm. You create a great context, and then allow it to happen."-Emily Nagoski, Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life
"Please tell everyone you know: If you have responsive desire, you are already normal. No one needs to 'crave' sex out of the blue to be a fully healthy person."-Emily Nagoski, Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life
"One more thing about women's external genitals. The name for the whole package of female genitalia is "vulva." "Vagina" refers to the internal reproductive canal that leads up to the uterus. People o…"-Emily Nagoski, Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life
9. An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
By: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
4.37
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples Today in… read more
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- american history
- history
"Of a thousand Red Stick and allied insurgents, eight hundred were killed. [Andrew] Jackson lost forty-nine men."-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
"Once elected president, Jackson lost no time in initiating the removal of all Indigenous farmers and the destruction of all their towns in the South."-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
"[Theodore] Roosevelt referred to [Emilio] Aguinaldo as a "renegade Pawnee" and observed that Filipinos did not have the right to govern their country just because they happened to occupy it."-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
"The establishment of the missions and presidios from San Diego and Los Angeles and Santa Barbara to Carmel, San Francisco, and Sonoma, traces the colonization of California's Indigenous nations. The …"-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
10. Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
By: Jon Krakauer
4.20
Format: 141 pages, Paperback
A multilayered, bone-chilling narrative of messianic delusion, savage violence, polygamy, and unyie… read more
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11. When Prophecy Fails: A Social and Psychological Study of a Modern Group that Predicted the Destruction of the World
By: Leon Festinger , Henry W. Riecken , Stanley Schachter
3.68
Format: 113 pages,
"We've all experienced the futility of trying to change a strong conviction, especially if the conv… read more
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12. The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy
By: Philip S. Gorski
4.19
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A bracing examination of a force that imperils American democracy Most Americans were shocked by t… read more
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- american history
- religion
- history
"White Christian nationalism is a “deep story"-Philip S. Gorski, The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy
"For white Americans who affirm Christian nationalist ideology, “true Americans"-Philip S. Gorski, The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy
"Even as it’s become riskier for mainstream politicians to use negative dog whistles like “thug"-Philip S. Gorski, The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy
"It’s not that Christian nationalists have a different understanding of American history; it’s that they often have an incorrect understanding."-Philip S. Gorski, The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy
13. Time Is a Mother
By: Ocean Vuong
3.94
Format: 114 pages, Hardcover
In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershoc… read more
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14. Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
By: Amanda Montell
3.85
Format: 309 pages, Hardcover
The author of the widely praised Wordslut analyzes the social science of cult influence: how cultis… read more
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- religion
- history
"Without language, there are no "cults"."-Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
"Some say people who join cults are “lost."-Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
"With words, we breathe reality into being."-Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
"The nimble direct sales industry always finds a way to reinvent itself - the capitalist cockroach that just won't stop reincarnating."-Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
15. Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake (Winner Bakes All, #1)
By: Alexis Hall
3.89
Format: 449 pages, Kindle Edition
Following the recipe is the key to a successful bake. Rosaline Palmer has always lived by those rul… read more
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"I'm not indecisive, Mother, I'm bisexual. There's a difference."-Alexis Hall, Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake (Winner Bakes All, #1)
"Oh, Roz" -- Lauren gave a deep shudder -- "heterosexual sex sounds excruciatingly dull."-Alexis Hall, Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake (Winner Bakes All, #1)
"That was sex for you -- it only got really good when you didn't care how undignified the whole business was."-Alexis Hall, Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake (Winner Bakes All, #1)
"You might've lost me. The way I see it, if they're your family, either they'll love you no matter what, or fuck 'em."-Alexis Hall, Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake (Winner Bakes All, #1)
16. You Could Make This Place Beautiful
By: Maggie Smith
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of… read more
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"At our wedding, our college creative writing professor read a poem—John Ciardi’s “Most Like an Arch This Marriage."-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful
"How I picture it: We are all nesting dolls, carrying the earlier iterations of ourselves inside. We carry the past inside us. We take ourselves–all of our selves–wherever we go. Inside forty-somethin…"-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful
17. The Husbands
By: Chandler Baker
3.48
Format: 346 pages, Hardcover
Chandler Baker, the New York Times bestselling author of Whisper Network, is back with The Husband… read more
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"We can elbow and push all we want for every packed lunch, picked-up towel, put-away pan, and scheduled doctor’s appointment, but until paternity leave is normalized, until schools call fathers about …"-Chandler Baker, The Husbands
18. This Is Kind of an Epic Love Story
By: Kacen Callender
3.38
Format: 304 pages, ebook
A fresh, charming rom-com perfect for fans of Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda and Boy Meets Boy a… read more
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"Maybe the way you love changes from person to person."-Kacen Callender, This Is Kind of an Epic Love Story
"Maybe the ending isn't even really the point. Just as long as there was a happy somewhere along the way."-Kacen Callender, This Is Kind of an Epic Love Story
"I’m sick and tired of looking around at everyone else falling in love, and telling myself that I don’t deserve it, too."-Kacen Callender, This Is Kind of an Epic Love Story
"I’m realizing it doesn’t really matter if we have a happy ending or not. We’re happy right now. That’s the important part, right?"-Kacen Callender, This Is Kind of an Epic Love Story
19. The Great Believers
By: Rebecca Makkai
4.29
Format: 421 pages, Paperback
A dazzling new novel of friendship and redemption in the face of tragedy and loss set in 1980s Chic… read more
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"Ageism is the only self-correcting prejudice, isn’t it?"-Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers
"Boys with hands in pockets, waiting for everything to begin"-Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers
"Listen, direct action—direct action is the third best feeling in the world."-Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers
"And when you came here from Heaven, you left the door open so he could go out."-Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers
20. Make Yourselves Gods: Mormons and the Unfinished Business of American Secularism (Class 200: New Studies in Religion)
By: Peter Coviello
4.31
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the perspective of Protestant America, nineteenth-century Mormons were the victims of a peculi… read more
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- religion
21. Before Religion: A History of a Modern Concept
By: Brent Nongbri
3.76
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For much of the past two centuries, religion has been understood as a universal phenomenon, a part … read more
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- religion
- history
22. The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover: How the FBI Aided and Abetted the Rise of White Christian Nationalism
By: Lerone A. Martin
3.94
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The shocking untold story of how the FBI partnered with white evangelicals to champion a vision of … read more
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- american history
- religion
- history
23. The Myth of Colorblind Christians: Evangelicals and White Supremacy in the Civil Rights Era
By: Jesse Curtis
4.47
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Uncovers the hidden roots of white evangelicalism's contemporary racial crisis. The Myth of Colorb… read more
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- religion
- history
24. Sex and Secularism (The Public Square)
By: Joan Wallach Scott
3.92
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
How secularism has been used to justify the subordination of women Joan Wallach Scott’s acclaimed … read more
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- religion
- history
25. The Secular Paradox: On the Religiosity of the Not Religious (Secular Studies, 5)
By: Joseph Blankholm
3.71
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A radically new way of understanding secularism which explains why being secular can seem so strang… read more
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- religion
26. Sincerely Held: American Secularism and Its Believers (Class 200: New Studies in Religion)
By: Charles McCrary
4.42
Format: 308 pages, Paperback
A novel account of the relationship between sincerity, religious freedom, and the secular in the Un… read more
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- american history
- religion
- history
27. Consuming Religion (Class 200: New Studies in Religion)
By: Kathryn Lofton
4.15
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
What are you drawn to like, to watch, or even to binge? What are you free to consume, and what do y… read more
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28. Culture and Redemption: Religion, the Secular, and American Literature
By: Tracy Fessenden
3.67
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Many Americans wish to believe that the United States, founded in religious tolerance, has graduall… read more
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- religion
- history
