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Religion

A list of books about religion mentioned on the Joe Rogan Experience Podcast

The Bible

most mentioned
The Qur’an
by M. A. S. Abdel Haleem (Translator)

most mentioned
The Hadith
by Muhammad al-Bukhari
The Quranic Sunnah of Prophet Muhammad
by Laleh Bakhtiar
Reliance of the Traveller: A Classic Manual of Islamic Sacred Law
by Nuh Ha Mim Keller
The Bhagavad Gita
by Eknath Easwaran (Translator)

most mentioned
The Talmud
The God Delusion
by Richard Dawkins
Ruthless: Scientology, My Son David Miscavige, and Me
by Ron Miscavige

biography
Force and Fanaticism: Wahhabism in Saudi Arabia and Beyond
by Simon Ross Valentine
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
by Lawrence Wright

most mentioned
The Sacred Mushroom and The Cross
by John M. Allegro

most mentioned
Letter to a Christian Nation
by Sam Harris
The Book of Enoch
by Enoch
The Book of Mormon
by Joseph Smith Jr. (Translator)
Dianetics: The Modern Science Of Mental Health
by L. Ron Hubbard
The Torah (Deuteronomy)
The Kingdom of Matthias
by Paul E. Johnson & Sean Wilentz
The Varieties of Religious Experience
by William James
The Upanishads
by Eknath Easwaran (Translator)
In the Buddha’s Words: An Anthology of Discourses from the Pali Canon
by Bhikkhu Bodhi
Heavens on Earth: The Scientific Search for the Afterlife, Immortality, and Utopia
by Michael Shermer
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
by Jon Krakauer
The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English
by Geza Vermes
Dead Sea Scrolls and the Christian Myth
by John Marco Allegro
The Tibetan Book of the Dead

philosophy
Islam and the Future of Tolerance: A Dialogue
by Sam Harris & Maajid Nawaz
Radical: My Journey out of Islamist Extremism
by Maajid Nawaz

biography
Milestones
by Sayed Qutb
The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram
by Howard Bloom
The Gnostic Gospels
The Constant Fire: Beyond the Science vs. Religion Debate
by Adam Frank

science
The Vedas
Bhagavad-Gita As It Is
by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Srimad Bhagavatam
by Swami Prabhavananda (Translator)
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
by Christopher Hitchens
Outgrowing God: A Beginner’s Guide
by Richard Dawkins
The Book of Abraham
by Joseph Smith (Translator)
The Mahabharata
In the Closet of the Vatican: Power, Homosexuality, Hypocrisy
by Frederic Martel
The Rig Veda
The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name
by Brian C. Muraresku

ancient civilizations
The Holy Mushroom: Evidence of Mushrooms in Judeo-Christianity
by J.R. Irvin with Jack Herer

drugs
Sacred Matters: Celebrity Worship, Sexual Ecstasies, The Living Dead and Other Signs of Religious Life in the United States
by Gary Laderman
The Bible Code
by Michael Drosnin
The Kingdom of God is Within You
by Leo Tolstoy
The Complete Apocrypha: Collection of all the 16 Books Rejected from the Bible
Evidence That Demands a Verdict: Life-Changing Truth for a Skeptical World
by Josh McDowell & Sean McDowell, PhD
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
by Reza Aslan

history
Jesus Calling
by Sarah Young
The Babylonian Talmud
The Case for Christ: A Journalist’s Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus
by Lee Strobel
Autobiography of a Yogi
by Paramahansa Yogananda

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