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What books would you recommend to someone who wanted to learn about your religion? Check out our Editors' Picks below. Of course, Beliefnet members have plenty of suggestions and have shared them on the boards. See what they have to say, add your own titles.

On the boards:

• 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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