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	• Buddhism • Earth-Based • Evangelical Christianity • Hinduism		• Islam • Judaism • Progressive Christianity

Basic Buddhism Books
• Buddha by Karen Armstrong
• Buddhism Plain and Simple by Steve Hagen
• Buddhism in America by Richard Hughes Seager
• The New Buddhism by James Coleman
• Buddhism Made Plain by Antony Fernando
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Basic Earth-Based Religion Books
• The Spiral Dance by Starhawk
• Drawing Down the Moon by Margot Adler
• Wicca for the Solitary Practitioner by Scott Cunningham
• The Wiccan Path by Rae Beth
• Pagan Book of Living and Dying by Starhawk
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Basic Evangelical Christianity Books
• A Short Systematic Theology by Paul Zahl
• Christianity 101 by Gilbert Bilezekian
• Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory by Randall Balmer
• Just as I Am by Billy Graham
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Basic Hinduism Books
• Classical Hindu Thought by Arvind Sharma
• Jnana Yoga by Swami Vivekananda
• The Bhagavad Gita Translated by Stephen Mitchell
• Banaras: City of Light by Diana Eck
• Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahamsa Yogananda
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Basic Islam Books
• Islam: A Short History by Karen Armstrong
• The Oxford History of Islam by John Esposito
• Muhammad by Karen Armstrong
• Islam in America by Jane Smith
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Basic Judaism Books
• The Jewish Catalog by Michael Strassfeld
• Teshuva by Adin Steinsaltz
• To Be a Jew by Hayim Donin
• Living a Jewish Life by Anita Diamant
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Basic Progressive Christianity Books
• Christianity and the Social Crisis

by Walter Raushenbush
• Why Christian by John Douglas Hall
• Things Seen and Unseen by Nora Gallagher
• Sexism and God Talk by Rosemary Radford Ruether
• Risks of Faith by James Cone
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