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  Kateb, George, Human Dignity, Cambridge, MA, Belknap of Harvard University Press, 2011.

  Kraynak, Robert P., and Glenn E. Tinder, In Defense of Human Dignity: Essays for Our Times, Notre Dame, IN, University of Notre Dame Press, 2003.

  Lewis, C. S., The Abolition of Man, New York, Macmillan, 1978.

  Meilaender, Gilbert, Neither Beast nor God: The Dignity of the Human Person, New York, Encounter, 2009.

  Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni, Oration on the Dignity of Man, Chicago, Gateway Editions, 1956.

  Sandel, Michael J., The Case against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering, Cambridge, MA, Belknap of Harvard University Press, 2007.

  Soulen, R. Kendall, and Linda Woodhead, God and Human Dignity, Grand Rapids, MI, Eerdmans, 2006.

  Wolterstorff, Nicholas, Justice: Rights and Wrongs, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2008.

  7. The Politics of Freedom

  Acton, Lord, Selected Writings of Lord Acton, ed. J. Rufus Fears, Indianapolis, Liberty Classics, 1985–8.

  Berman, Joshua, Created Equal: How the Bible Broke with Ancient Political Thought, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2008.

  Cohen, Stuart, The Three Crowns: Structures of Communal Politics in Early Rabbinic Jewry, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1990.

  Elazar, Daniel Judah, Covenant and Civil Society: The Constitutional Matrix of Modern Democracy, New Brunswick, NJ, Transaction, 1998.

  Elazar, Daniel Judah, Covenant and Commonwealth, New Brunswick, NJ, Transaction, 1996.

  Elazar, Daniel Judah, Covenant and Constitutionalism: The Great Frontier and the Matrix of Federal Democracy, New Brunswick, NJ, Transaction, 1997.

  Elazar, Daniel Judah, Covenant and Polity in Biblical Israel: Biblical Foundations and Jewish Expressions, New Brunswick, NJ, Transaction, 1995.

  Elazar, Daniel Judah, Covenant in the Nineteenth Century: The Decline of an American Political Tradition, Lanham, MD, Rowman & Littlefield, 1994.

  Elazar, Daniel Judah, The Covenant Tradition in Politics, New Brunswick, NJ, Transaction, 1995.

  Elazar, Daniel Judah (ed.), Kinship and Consent: The Jewish Political Tradition and its Contemporary Uses, Washington, DC, University Press of America, 1983.

  Elazar, Daniel Judah, and John Kincaid, Covenant and Polity, Philadelphia, Center for the Study of Federalism, Temple University, 1979.

  Hayek, Friedrich A. Von, The Constitution of Liberty, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1960.

  Hayek, Friedrich A. Von, and William Warren Bartley, The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1989.

  Hill, Christopher, The English Bible and the Seventeenth-Century Revolution, London, Allen Lane, 1993.

  Hill, Christopher, Milton and the English Revolution, New York, Viking Press, 1977.

  Hill, Christopher, The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas during the English Revolution, New York, Viking Press, 1972.

  Miller, Perry, The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1954.

  Nelson, Eric, The Hebrew Republic: Jewish Sources and the Transformation of European Political Thought, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 2010.

  Plamenatz, John Petrov, Man and Society, Political and Social Theory, New York, McGraw-Hill, 1963.

  Rosenblatt, Jason P., Renaissance England’s Chief Rabbi: John Selden, New York, Oxford University Press, 2006.

  Sacks, Jonathan, The Home We Build Together, London, Continuum, 2009.

  Sacks, Jonathan, The Politics of Hope, London, Jonathan Cape, 1997.

  Talmon, J. L., The Origins of Totalitarian Democracy, New York, Praeger, 1960.

  8. Morality

  Axelrod, Robert, The Evolution of Co-operation, London, Penguin, 1990.

  Baggett, David, and Jerry L. Walls, Good God: The Theistic Foundations of Morality, New York, Oxford University Press, 2011.

  Garcia, Robert K., and Nathan L. King, Is Goodness without God Good Enough?: A Debate on Faith, Secularism, and Ethics, Lanham, MD, Rowman & Littlefield, 2009.

  Harris, Sam, The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values, New York, Free Press, 2010.

  Hauser, Marc D., Moral Minds: How Nature Designed Our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong, New York, Ecco, 2006.

  MacIntyre, Alasdair C., After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory, London, Duckworth, 1981.

  Ridley, Matt, The Origins of Virtue, London, Viking, 1996.

  Stout, Jeffrey, The Flight from Authority: Religion, Morality, and the Quest for Autonomy, Notre Dame, IN, University of Notre Dame Press, 1981.

  Waal, Frans de, The Age of Empathy: Nature’s Lessons for a Kinder Society, New York, Harmony, 2009.

  Wade, Nicholas, The Faith Instinct: How Religion Evolved and Why It Endures, New York, Penguin, 2009.

  Walzer, Michael, Interpretation and Social Criticism, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1987.

  Walzer, Michael, Thick and Thin: Moral Argument at Home and Abroad, Notre Dame, IN, University of Notre Dame Press, 1994.

  Wright, Robert, The Moral Animal: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology, New York, Pantheon, 1994.

  9. Relationships

  Barton, Stephen C., The Family in Theological Perspective, Edinburgh, T. & T. Clark, 1996.

  Browning, Don S., M. Christian Green and John Witte, Sex, Marriage, and Family in World Religions, New York, Columbia Univeristy Press, 2006.

  Broyde, Michael J., and Michael Ausubel, Marriage, Sex, and Family in Judaism, Lanham, MD, Rowman & Littlefield, 2005.

  Buber, Martin, I and Thou, New York, Scribner, 1958.

  Farley, Margaret A., Just Love: A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics, New York, Continuum, 2006.

  George, Robert P., and Jean Bethke Elshtain, The Meaning of Marriage: Family, State, Market, and Morals, Dallas, Spence Publishers, 2006.

  Macmurray, John, The Form of the Personal, London, Faber, 1961.

  Macmurray, John, Persons in Relation, Atlantic Highlands, NJ, Humanities, 1979.

  Mount, Ferdinand, The Subversive Family: An Alternative History of Love and Marriage, New York, Free Press, 1992.

  Rogers, Carl R., On Becoming a Person: A Therapist’s View of Psychotherapy, Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1961.

  Ross, Jacob Joshua, The Virtues of the Family, New York, Free Press, 1994.

  Waal, Anastasia de, Second Thoughts on the Family, London, Civitas, Institute for the Study of Civil Society, 2008.

  Wilson, James Q., The Marriage Problem: How Our Culture Has Weakened Families, New York, HarperCollins, 2002.

  Witte, John, From Sacrament to Contract: Marriage, Religion, and Law in the Western Tradition, Louisville, KY, Westminster John Knox, 1997.

  Witte, John, and Eliza Ellison, Covenant Marriage in Comparative Perspective, Grand Rapids, MI, Eerdmans, 2005.

  10. A Meaningful Life

  Ben-Shahar, Tal, Happier: Learn the Secrets to Daily Joy and Lasting Fulfillment, New York, McGraw-Hill, 2007.

  Ben-Shahar, Tal, The Pursuit of Perfect: How to Stop Chasing Perfection and Start Living a Richer, Happier Life, New York, McGraw-Hill, 2009.

  Bok, Derek Curtis, The Politics of Happiness: What Government Can Learn from the New Research on Well-Being, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2010.

  Bok, Sissela, Exploring Happiness: From Aristotle to Brain Science, New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 2010.

  Brümmer, Vincent, and Marcel Sarot, Happiness, Well-Being and the Meaning of Life: A Dialogue of Social Science and Religion, Kampen, The Netherlands, Kok Pharos Publishing House, 1996.

  Cahn, Steven M., and Christine Vitrano, Happiness: Classic and Contemporary Readings in Philosophy, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2007.

  Charry, Ellen T., God and the Art of Happiness, Grand Rapids, MI, Eerdmans, 2010.

  Dalai Lama and Howard Cutler, The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living, London, Coronet, 1999.

  Diener, Ed, and Robert Biswas-Diener, Happiness: Unlocking the Myste
ries of Psychological Wealth, Malden, MA, Blackwell, 2008.

  Emmons, Robert A., Thanks!: How the New Science of Gratitude Can Make You Happier, Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 2007.

  Gilbert, Daniel Todd, Stumbling on Happiness, New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.

  Graham, Carol, Happiness around the World: The Paradox of Happy Peasants and Miserable Millionaires, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2009.

  Haidt, Jonathan, The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom, New York, Basic, 2006.

  Hanson, Rick, and Richard Mendius, Buddha’s Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love and Wisdom, Oakland, CA, New Harbinger Publications, 2009.

  Hecht, Jennifer Michael, The Happiness Myth: The Historical Antidote to What Isn’t Working Today, New York, HarperOne, 2008.

  Layard, P. Richard G., Happiness: Lessons from a New Science, London, Penguin, 2006.

  Lyubomirsky, Sonja, The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want, New York, Penguin, 2008.

  McMahon, Darrin M., Happiness: A History, New York, Atlantic Monthly, 2006.

  Minirth, Frank B., and Paul D. Meier, Happiness Is a Choice: The Symptoms, Causes, and Cures of Depression, Grand Rapids, MI, Baker, 2007.

  Nettle, Daniel, Happiness: The Science behind Your Smile, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2005.

  Ricard, Matthieu, Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life’s Most Important Skill, New York, Little, Brown, 2006.

  Rubin, Gretchen Craft, The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun, New York, HarperCollins, 2009.

  Russell, Bertrand, The Conquest of Happiness, London, George Allen & Unwin, 1948.

  Seligman, Martin E. P., Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment, New York, Free Press, 2002.

  Seligman, Martin E. P., Learned Optimism, New York, Pocket, 1998.

  Tirosh-Samuelson, Hava, Happiness in Premodern Judaism: Virtue, Knowledge, and Well-being, Cincinnati, Hebrew Union College, 2003.

  Twerski, Abraham J., Happiness and the Human Spirit: The Spirituality of Becoming the Best You Can Be, Woodstock, NY, Jewish Lights Publishers, 2007.

  11. Darwin

  EVOLUTION AND CREATION

  Alexander, Denis, Creation or Evolution: Do We Have to Choose?, Oxford, Monarch, 2008.

  Alexander, Denis, Rebuilding the Matrix: Science and Faith in the 21st Century, Grand Rapids, MI, Zondervan, 2003.

  Aviezer, Nathan, Fossils and Faith: Understanding Torah and Science, Hoboken, NJ, KTAV Publishing House, 2001.

  Barbour, Ian G., When Science Meets Religion: Enemies, Strangers, or Partners? San Francisco, HarperSanFrancisco, 2000.

  Brown, William P., The Ethos of the Cosmos: The Genesis of Moral Imagination in the Bible, Grand Rapids, MI, Eerdmans, 1999.

  Brown, William P., The Seven Pillars of Creation: The Bible, Science, and the Ecology of Wonder, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2010.

  Cantor, G. N., and Marc Swetlitz, Jewish Tradition and the Challenge of Darwinism, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2006.

  Collins, Francis S., The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief, Detroit, Thomson/Gale, 2007.

  Dowd, Michael, Thank God for Evolution: How the Marriage of Science and Religion Will Transform Your Life and Our World, New York, Viking, 2008.

  Goodman, Lenn Evan, Creation and Evolution, London, Routledge, 2010.

  Haught, John F., God after Darwin: A Theology of Evolution, Boulder, CO, Westview, 2008.

  Haught, John F., Making Sense of Evolution: Darwin, God, and the Drama of Life, Louisville, KY, Westminster John Knox, 2010.

  Haught, John F., Science and Religion: From Conflict to Conversation, New York, Paulist, 1995.

  Hayward, Alan, Creation and Evolution, Minneapolis, MN, Bethany House, 1995.

  Larson, Edward J., The Creation-Evolution Debate: Historical Perspectives, Athens, University of Georgia, 2007.

  Larson, Edward J., Trial and Error: The American Controversy over Creation and Evolution, New York, Oxford University Press, 2003.

  Miller, Kenneth R., Finding Darwin’s God: A Scientist’s Search for Common Ground between God and Evolution, New York, Cliff Street, 1999.

  Miller, Kenneth R., Only a Theory: Evolution and the Battle for America’s Soul, New York, Viking, 2008.

  Newell, Norman Dennis, Creation and Evolution: Myth or Reality?, New York, Columbia University Press, 1982.

  Polkinghorne, John, An Evolving Creation, Edinburgh, University of Edinburgh, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, 2009.

  Ruse, Michael, But Is It Science?: The Philosophical Question in the Creation/Evolution Controversy, Buffalo, NY, Prometheus, 1988.

  Ruse, Michael, The Evolution-Creation Struggle, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 2005.

  Sarfati, Jonathan D., and Mike Matthews, Refuting Evolution 2, Niles, IL, Master, 2002.

  Scott, Eugenie Carol, Evolution vs. Creationism: An Introduction, Westport, CT, Greenwood, 2004.

  Slifkin, Nosson, The Challenge of Creation: Judaism’s Encounter with Science, Cosmology, and Evolution, Ramat Bet Shemesh, Israel, Zoo Torah, 2006.

  Slifkin, Nosson, The Science of Torah: The Reflection of Torah in the Laws of Science, the Creation of the Universe and the Development of Life, Brooklyn, NY, Targum, 2001.

  Stove, D. C., Darwinian Fairytales: Selfish Genes, Errors of Heredity, and Other Fables of Evolution, New York, Encounter, 2007.

  DARWINIAN AND NEUROSCIENTIFIC ACCOUNTS OF RELIGION

  Atran, Scott, In Gods We Trust: The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2002.

  Beauregard, Mario, and Denyse O’Leary, The Spiritual Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Case for the Existence of the Soul, New York, HarperOne, 2007.

  Boyer, Pascal, Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought, New York, Basic, 2001.

  Feierman, Jay R., The Biology of Religious Behavior: The Evolutionary Origins of Faith and Religion, Santa Barbara, CA, Praeger/ABC-CLIO, 2009.

  Hamer, Dean H., The God Gene: How Faith Is Hardwired into Our Genes, New York, Doubleday, 2004.

  McNamara, Patrick, The Neuroscience of Religious Experience, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2009.

  Newberg, Andrew B., and Mark Robert Waldman, Born to Believe: God, Science, and the Origin of Ordinary and Extraordinary Beliefs, New York, Free Press, 2007.

  Newberg, Andrew B., and Mark Robert Waldman, How GodChanges Your Brain: Breakthrough Findings from a Leading Neuroscientist, New York, Ballantine, 2009.

  Newberg, Andrew B., Eugene G. D’Aquili, and Vince Rause, Why God Won’t Go Away: Brain Science and the Biology of Belief, New York, Ballantine, 2001.

  Tremlin, Todd, Minds and Gods: The Cognitive Foundations of Religion, New York, Oxford University Press, 2006.

  Wade, Nicholas, The Faith Instinct: How Religion Evolved and Why It Endures, New York, Penguin, 2009.

  Wilson, David Sloan, Darwin’s Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2007.

  12. The Problem of Evil

  Adams, Marilyn McCord, and Robert Merrihew Adams, The Problem of Evil, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1990.

  Bernstein, Richard J., Radical Evil: A Philosophical Interrogation, Cambridge, UK, Polity, 2002.

  Feinberg, John S., The Many Faces of Evil: Theological Systems and the Problems of Evil, Wheaton, IL, Crossway, 2004.

  Hick, John, Evil and the God of Love, New York, Harper & Row, 1978.

  Inwagen, Peter van, The Problem of Evil: The Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of St Andrews in 2003, Oxford, Clarendon, 2006.

  Kelly, Joseph F., The Problem of Evil in the Western Tradition: From the Book of Job to Modern Genetics, Collegeville, MN, Liturgical, 2002.

  Larrimore, Mark J., The Problem of Evil: A Reader, Oxford, Blackwell,
2001.

  Matuštík, Martin Joseph, Radical Evil and the Scarcity of Hope: Postsecular Meditations, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2008.

  Nadler, Steven M., The Best of All Possible Worlds: A Story of Philosophers, God, and Evil, New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.

  Neiman, Susan, Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2002.

  Patterson, David, and John K. Roth, Fire in the Ashes: God, Evil, and the Holocaust, Seattle, University of Washington, 2005.

  Plantinga, Alvin, God, Freedom, and Evil, Grand Rapids, MI, Eerdmans, 1977.

  Rorty, Amélie, The Many Faces of Evil: Historical Perspectives, London, Routledge, 2001.

  Urban, Linwood, and Douglas N. Walton, The Power of God: Readings on Omnipotence and Evil, New York, Oxford University Press, 1978.

  Wright, N. T., Evil and the Justice of God, Downers Grove, IL, InterVarsity Press, 2006.

  13. When Religion Goes Wrong

  Armstrong, Karen, The Battle for God, New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2000.

  Avalos, Hector, Fighting Words: The Origins of Religious Violence, Amherst, MA, Prometheus, 2005.

  Baumeister, Roy F., Evil: Inside Human Cruelty and Violence, New York, W. H. Freeman, 1997.

  Beck, Aaron T., Prisoners of Hate: The Cognitive Basis of Anger, Hostility, and Violence, New York, HarperCollins, 1999.

  Cohn, Norman, The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages, New York, Oxford University Press, 1970.

  Girard, René, The Scapegoat, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986.

  Girard, René, Violence and the Sacred, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977.

  Juergensmeyer, Mark, Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence, Berkeley, University of California Press, 2000.

  Kimball, Charles, When Religion Becomes Evil, San Francisco, HarperSanFrancisco, 2002.

  Meyer, Marvin W., and Wolf-Peter Funk, The Nag Hammadi Scriptures, New York, HarperOne, 2007.

  Nelson-Pallmeyer, Jack, Is Religion Killing Us?: Violence in the Bible and the Quran, London, Continuum, 2003.

 

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