Words of the World's Religion

Memoirs / Charles G. Finney
Jacob Boehme / Hans L. Martensen
The organization man / William H. Whyte, Jr
Cosmos and history / Mircea Eliade
A Chinese mirror / Florence Ayscough
Man and the sacred / Roger Caillois
The idea of the holy / Rudolf Otto
Zoroastrian studies / A.V. Williams Jackson
Avesta: the religious books of the Parsis / Arthur Henry Bleeck
Essays on the sacred language, writings and religion of the Parsis / Martin Haug
History of the Parsis / Dosabhai Framji Karaka
Zoroastrianism: the religion of the good life / Rustom Masani
The sacred and the profane / Mircea Eliade
The Lugbara of Uganda / John Middleton
The study of the Lugbara: expectation and paradox in anthropological research / John Middleton
Pagan religion in a New Guinea village / H. Ian Hogbin
Shamanism: the beginnings of art / Andreas Lommel
Peyote hunt / Barbara G. Myerhoff
Primitive religion / Robert H. Lowie
Animals in Lele religious thought / Mary Douglas
The Bontoc igorot / Albert Ernest Jenks
Naven / Gregory Bateson
Hindu scriptures / Nicol MacNicol
A source book of Advaita Vedanta / Eliot Deutsch, J.A.B. van Buitenen
How to know god: the yoga aphorisms of Patanjali / Swami Prabhavananda, Christopher Isherwood
The laws of Manu / G. Buhler
The song celestial / Edwin Arnold
Shankara's crest-jewel of discrimination / Swami Prabhavananda, Christopher Isherwood
Bhagavata religion: the cult of Bhakti / Jadunath Sinha
Krsna, the supreme personality of godhead / A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Cradle tales of Hinduism / Sister Nivedita
Tantra yoga / Nik Douglas
Religious practices of the Hindus / Sivaprasad Bhattacharyya
Swami Muktananda and the enlightenment through Shakti-Pat / Charles S.J. White
Mahatma Gandhi's idea, including selections from his writings / C.F. Andrews
Buddhism in translations / Henry Clarke Warren
Buddhist suttas / T.W. Rhys Davids
Some sayings of the Buddha / F.L. Woodward
Buddhism in Theravada countries / The Ven Balangoda Nanada Maitreya
Buddhist scriptures / Edward Conze
The Saddharma-Pundarika or The lotus of the true law / H. Kern
Buddhist religion: a historical introduction / Richard H. Robinson
Magic and mystery in Tibet / Alexandra David-Neel
The Tibetan book of the dead / Frank J. MacHovec
Gods, ghosts, and ancestors / David K. Jordan
The sacred books of China / James Legge
I Ching / John Blofeld
The heart of Confucius: interpretations of genuine living and great wisdom / Archie Bahm
Lao Tzu: Tao te ching / D.C. Lau
Encyclopedia of Chinese symbolism and art motives / C.A.S. Williams
The monastery of Jade Mountain / Peter Goullart
Under the ancestors' shadow / Francis L.K. Hsu
Manual of Zen Buddhism / D.T. Suzuki
Folkways in China / Lewis Hodous
Nihongi / W.G. Aston
Carrying the Mikoshi: further field notes on the shrine festival in modern Tokyo / A.W. Sadler
Kukai: major works / Yoshito S. Hakeda
The Shinshu Seiten: the holy scripture of Shinshu
The Zen master Hakuin: selected writings / Philip B. Yampolsky
Folk religion in Japan: continuity and change / Ichiro Hori
Seasonal rituals connected with rice culture / Toshijiro Hirayama
The human revolution / Daisaku Ikeda
Teachings of Meishu-sama
Ancient myth and modern man / Gerald A. Larue
The epic of Gilgamesh / N.K. Sanders
The hymns of Zarathustra / Jacques Duchesne-Guillemin
Hesiod, the Homeric hymns and Homerica / Hugh G. Evelyn-White
Livy / B.O. Foster
Ancient Roman religion / H.J. Rose
Celtic heritage / Alwyn Rees, Brinley Rees
Caesar: the Gallic war / H.J. Edwards
Poems of the Vikings: the elder Edda / Patricia Terry
Gods and myths of northern Europe / H.R. Ellis Davidson
The revised standard version of the Bible
The story of Judaism / Bernhard J. Bamberger
The works of Philo Judaeus / C.D. Yonge
The Talmud: selections / H. Polano
9 1/2 mystics: the Kabbala today / Herbert Weiner
Souls on fire: portraits and legends of Hasidic masters / Elie Wiesel
The guide to the perplexed of Maimonides / M. Friedlander
Jerusalem and other Jewish writings by Moses Mendelssohn / Alfred Jospe
The earth is the lord's and the sabbath / Abraham Joshua Heschel
This is my god / Herman Wouk
Sabbath / Margo Minco
The cotton patch version of Paul's epistles / Clarence Jordan
Life in the early church A.D. 33 to 313 / A.E. Welsford
Athanasius: contra genetes and de incarnatione / Robert W. Thomson
The rule of Saint Benedict / Justin McCann
Saint Augustine: the city of god / Gerald G. Walsh, Grace Monahan
Introduction to Saint Thomas Aquinas / Anton C. Pegis
The lives of S. Francis of Assisi by Brother Thomas of Celano / A.G. Ferrers Howell
St. Francis of Assisi / G.K. Chesterton
Revelations of divine love recorded by Julian Anchoress of Norwich A.D. 1373 / Grace Warrack
Luther's works, vol. 26: lectures on Galatians / Jaroslav Pelikan
Calvin: institutes of the Christian religion / John T. McNeill
Passages from the life and writings of George Fox
A treasury of Russian spirituality / C.P. Fedotov
The Christ of Catholicism / Aelred Graham
To Jesus through Mary: true devotion to Mary according to Saint Louis Grignon de Montfort
Mother Teresa: her people and her work / Desmond Doig
World aflame / Billy Graham
The Protestant era / Paul Tillich
The cross and the switchblade / David Wilkerson
The Koran interpreted / Arthur J. Arberry
Muhammad: the man and his faith / Tor Andrae
Development of Muslim theology, jurisprudence and constitutional theory / Duncan B. MacDonald
Readings from the mystics of Islam / Margaret Smith
The Darvishes / John P. Brown
Le Droit Musulman / Nicolas de Tornauw
Muslim institutions / Maurice Gaudefoy-Demombynes
The Hajj: an appreciation / Ismail Ibrahim Nawwab
Muhammadan festivals / G.E. von Grunebaum
Islam in the Sudan / J. Spencer Trimingham
The way of the Sufi / Idries Shah

Reading selections exploring the religious traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, in addition to Eastern religions and those of ancient Egypt and the Near East