Bibliography

Here is a bibliography I use for this site, arranged by topic.

OCD

Abramowitz, Jonathan S.. Getting over OCD: a 10-step workbook for taking back your life. New York: Guilford Press, 2009. Print.

Baer, Lee. The imp of the mind: exploring the silent epidemic of obsessive bad thoughts. New York, N.Y., U.S.A.: Plume, 2002. Print.

Baer, Lee. Getting control: overcoming your obsessions and compulsions. 3rd ed. New York: Plume, 2012. Print.

Bourne, Edmund J.. The anxiety & phobia workbook. 5th ed. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger Publications, 2010. Print.

Ciarrocchi, Joseph W.. The doubting disease: help for scrupulosity and religious compulsions. New York: Paulist Press, 1995. Print.

Foa, Edna B., and Robert R. Wilson. Stop obsessing!: how to overcome your obsessions and compulsions. Rev. ed. New York: Bantam Books, 2001. Print.

Grayson, Jonathan. Freedom from obsessive-compulsive disorder: a personalized recovery program for living with uncertainty. Updated Berkley trade paperback ed. New York: Berkley Trade, 2014. Print.

Hershfield, Jon, and Tom Corboy. The mindfulness workbook for OCD: a guide to overcoming obsessions and compulsions using mindfulness and cognitive behavioral therapy. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger Publications, 2013. Print.

Hyman, Bruce M., and Cherry Pedrick. The OCD workbook: your guide to breaking free from obsessive-compulsive disorder. 2nd ed. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger Publications, 2005. Print.

Hyman, Bruce M., and Troy DuFrene. Coping with OCD: practical strategies for living well with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger Publications, 2008. Print.

Osborn, Ian. Tormenting thoughts and secret rituals: the hidden epidemic of obsessive-compulsive disorder. New York: Dell, 1999. Print.

Osborn, Ian. Can Christianity cure obsessive-compulsive disorder?: a psychiatrist explores the role of faith in treatment. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Brazos Press, 2008. Print.

Penzel, Fred. Obsessive-compulsive disorders: a complete guide to getting well and staying well. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Print.

Purdon, Christine, and David A. Clark. Overcoming obsessive thoughts: how to gain control of your OCD. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger Publications, 2005. Print.

Schwartz, Jeffrey, and Beverly Beyette. Brain lock: free yourself from obsessive-compulsive behavior : a four-step self-treatment method to change your brain chemistry. New York: ReganBooks, 1997. Print.

Schwartz, Jeffrey, and Rebecca Gladding. You are not your brain: the 4-step solution for changing bad habits, ending unhealthy thinking, and taking control of your life. New York: Avery, 2011. Print.

Veale, David, and Rob Willson. Overcoming obsessive compulsive disorder: a self-help guide using cognitive behavioral techniques. New York: Basic Books, 2008. Print.

Willson, Rob. Taking control of OCD: inspirational stories of hope and recovery. London: Robinson, 2011. Print.

Yadin, Elna, and Edna B. Foa. Treating your OCD with exposure and response (ritual) prevention therapy: workbook. 2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Print.

Archeology

Dever, William G.. Did God have a wife?: archaeology and folk religion in ancient Israel. Grand Rapids, Mich.: W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2005. Print.

Finkelstein, Israel, and Neil Asher Silberman. The Bible unearthed: archaeology’s new vision of ancient Israel and the origin of its sacred texts. New York: Free Press, 2001. Print.

Finkelstein, Israel. The forgotten kingdom: the archaeology and history of Northern Israel. NA: Society of Biblical Literature, 2013. Print.

Smith, Mark S.. The early history of God: Yahweh and the other deities in ancient Israel. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1990. Print.

Atheism & Morality

Armstrong, Walter. Moral skepticisms. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Print.

Armstrong, Walter. Morality without God?. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Print.

Carrier, Richard. Sense and goodness without God: a defense of metaphysical naturalism. Bloomington, Ind.: Authorhouse, 2005. Print.

Cohen, Simon. The science of evil: on empathy and the origins of cruelty. New York: Basic Books, 2011. Print.

Harris, Sam. The moral landscape: how science can determine human values. New York: Free Press, 2010. Print.

Martin, Michael. Atheism, morality, and meaning. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2002. Print.

Atheism, Skepticism & Critical Thinking

Chabris, Christopher F., and Daniel J. Simons. The invisible gorilla: and other ways our intuitions deceive us. New York: Broadway Paperbacks, 2011. Print.

Eller, David. Natural atheism. Cranford, N.J.: American Atheist Press, 2004. Print.

Eller, David. Atheism advanced: further thoughts of a freethinker. Cranford, N.J.: American Atheist Press, 2007. Print.

Gold, R. D.. Bondage of the mind: how Old Testament fundamentalism shackles the mind and enslaves the spirit : toward a better understanding of the religious experience. Menlo Park, CA: Aldus Books ;, 2008. Print.

Grayling, A. C.. The God argument: the case against religion and for humanism.. New York: Bloomsbury, 2013. Print.

Grayling, A. C.. The good book: a humanist bible. Paperback ed. New York: Walker and Co., 20132011. Print.

Green, Ruth Hurmence. The born again skeptic’s guide to the Bible: with the book of Ruth. Madison, Wis.: Freedom From Religion Foundation, 1999. Print.

Harris, Sam. The end of faith: religion, terror, and the future of reason. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2004. Print.

Harris, Sam. Letter to a Christian nation. New York: Knopf, 2006. Print.

Harris, Sam. Free will. New York: Free Press, 2012. Print.

Harrison, Guy P.. 50 reasons people give for believing in a god. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2008. Print.

Harrison, Guy P.. 50 popular beliefs that people think are true. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2012. Print.

Hitchens, Christopher. God is not great: how religion poisons everything. New York: Twelve, 2007. Print.

Hitchens, Christopher. The portable atheist: essential readings for the nonbeliever.

Law, Stephen. Believing bullshit: how not to get sucked into an intellectual black hole. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2011. Print.Philadelphia, PA: Da Capo, 2007. Print.

Loftus, John W.. The Christian delusion: why faith fails. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2010. Print.

Loftus, John W.. The end of Christianity. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2011. Print.

Loftus, John W.. The outsider test for faith: how to know which religion is true. Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books, 2013. Print.

Loftus, John W.. Christianity is not great: how faith fails. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2014. Print.

Mills, David, and Dorion Sagan. Atheist universe the thinking person’s answer to christian fundamentalism. Berkeley, Calif.: Ulysses Press, 2006. Print.

Morgan, Robin. Fighting words: a toolkit for combating the religious right. New York: Nation Books :, 2006. Print.

Narciso, Dianna. Like rolling uphill: realizing the honesty of atheism. Coral Springs, FL: Llumina Press, 2003. Print.

Price, Robert M.. The reason-driven life: what am I here on earth for?. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2006. Print.

Price, Robert M.. The paperback apocalypse: how the Christian church was left behind. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2007. Print.

Price, Robert M.. Top secret: the truth behind today’s pop mysticisms. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2008. Print.

Ray, Darrel W.. The God virus: how religion infects our lives and culture. Bonner Springs, Kan.: IPC Press, 2009. Print.

Sagan, Carl. The demon-haunted world: science as a candle in the dark. New York: Random House, 1996. Print.

Tavris, Carol, and Elliot Aronson. Mistakes were made (but not by me): why we justify foolish beliefs, bad decisions, and hurtful acts. Orlando, Fla.: Harcourt, 2008. Print.

Bible & Scriptural Sources

Friedman, Richard Elliott. The Bible with sources revealed: a new view into the five books of Moses. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2005. Print.

Funk, Robert Walter, and Roy W. Hoover. The five Gospels: the search for the authentic words of Jesus : new translation and commentary. New York: Macmillan ;, 1993. Print.

Price, Robert M.. The pre-Nicene New Testament: fifty-four formative texts. Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2006. Print.

The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha, Augmented Third Edition, New Revised Standard Version. S.l.: Oxford University Press, 2007. Print.

Vermes, Geza. The complete Dead Sea scrolls in English. New York, N.Y., U.S.A.: Allen Lane/Penguin Press, 1997. Print.

Wells, Steve. The skeptic’s annotated Bible: the King James version from a skeptic’s point of view. NA: SAB Books, LLC, 2013. Print.

Biblical & Scriptural Criticism

Brodie, Thomas L.. Beyond the quest for the historical Jesus: memoir of a discovery. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2012. Print.

Carrier, Richard. Proving history: Bayes’s theorem and the quest for the historical Jesus. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2012. Print.

Carrier, Richard. On the historicity of Jesus: why we might have reason for doubt. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2014. Print.

Carrier, Richard. Not the impossible faith: why Christianity didn’t need a miracle to succeed. United States?: Lulu.com, 2009. Print.

Ehrman, Bart D.. The orthodox corruption of Scripture: the effect of early Christological controversies on the text of the New Testament. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. Print.

Ehrman, Bart D.. Jesus, apocalyptic prophet of the new millennium. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Print.

Ehrman, Bart D.. Lost scriptures: books that did not make it into the New Testament. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Print.

Ehrman, Bart D.. Lost Christianities: the battle for Scripture and the faiths we never knew. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Print.

Ehrman, Bart D.. Misquoting Jesus: the story behind who changed the Bible and why. New York: HarperSanFrancisco, 2005. Print.

Ehrman, Bart D.. Jesus, interrupted: revealing the hidden contradictions in the Bible (and why we don’t know about them). New York: HarperOne, 2009. Print.

Ehrman, Bart D.. Forgery and counterforgery: the use of literary deceit in early Christian polemics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Print.

Doherty, Earl. The Jesus puzzle: did Christianity begin with a mythical Christ?. Ottawa: Canadian Humanist Publications, 1999. Print.

Fitzgerald, David. Nailed: ten Christian myths that show Jesus never existed at all. S.l.: Lulu, 2010. Print.

Helms, Randel. Gospel fictions. Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1988. Print.

MacDonald, Dennis Ronald. The Homeric epics and the Gospel of Mark. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. Print.

Mack, Burton L.. Who wrote the New Testament?: the making of the Christian myth. San Francisco, Calif.: HarperSan Francisco, 1995. Print.

McCormick, Matthew S.. Atheism and the case against Christ. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2012. Print.

McKinsey, C. Dennis. The encyclopedia of biblical errancy. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1995. Print.

Paine, Thomas, and Philip Sheldon Foner. The age of reason. Secaucus, N.J.: Citadel Press, 1974. Print.

Pervo, Richard I.. The mystery of Acts: unraveling its story. Santa Rosa, Calif.: Polebridge Press, 2008. Print.

Price, Robert M.. Deconstructing Jesus. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2000. Print.

Price, Robert M.. The incredible shrinking Son of Man: how reliable is the Gospel tradition?. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2003. Print.

Price, Robert M., and Jeffery Jay Lowder. The empty tomb: Jesus beyond the grave. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2005. Print.

Price, Robert M.. The Da Vinci fraud: why the truth is stranger than fiction. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2005. Print.

Price, Robert M.. Jesus is dead. Cranford, N.J.: American Atheist Press, 2007. Print.

Price, Robert M.. Inerrant the wind: the evangelical crisis of biblical authority. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2009. Print.

Price, Robert M.. The Christ-myth theory and its problems. Cranford, N.J.: American Atheist Press, 2011. Print.

Price, Robert M.. Killing history: Jesus in the no-spin zone. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2014. Print.

Price, Robert M.. Beyond born again: toward evangelical maturity. Upper Montclair, NJ.: Apocryphal Books, 1993. Print.

Smith, Ken. Ken’s guide to the Bible. New York: Blast Books, 1995. Print.

Wells, Steve. Drunk with blood: god’s killings in the Bible. 2nd ed. Moscow, Idaho: SAB Books, 2013. Print.

Warraq, Ibn. What the Koran really says: language, text, and commentary. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2002. Print.

Warraq, Ibn. Why I am not a Muslim. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1995. Print.

Debates & Dialogues

Craig, William Lane, and Walter Armstrong. God? a debate between a Christian and an atheist. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Print.

Gates, Todd Allen. Dialogue with a Christian proselytizer. Bangor, ME: Booklocker.com, Inc., 2006. Print.

History

Ellerbe, Helen. The dark side of Christian history. San Rafael, CA.: Morningstar Books (P.O. Box 4032, San Rafael, CA. 94913-4032), 1995. Print.

Hitchens, Christopher. The missionary position: Mother Teresa in theory and practice. London: Verso, 1995. Print.

Turner, Alice K.. The history of hell. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1993. Print.

Science

Brockman, John. Intelligent thought: science versus the intelligent design movement. New York: Vintage, 2006. Print.

Coyne, Jerry A.. Why evolution is true. New York: Viking, 2009. Print.

Greene, B.. The elegant universe: superstrings, hidden dimensions, and the quest for the ultimate theory. New York: W.W. Norton, 1999. Print.

Kitcher, Philip. Abusing science: the case against creationism. Cambridge, Mass. [etc.: The MIT Press, 1982. Print.

Krauss, Lawrence Maxwell. A universe from nothing: why there is something rather than nothing. New York: Free Press, 2012. Print.

Shermer, Michael. The believing brain: from ghosts and gods to politics and conspiracies–how we construct beliefs and reinforce them as truths. New York: Times Books, 2011. Print.

Stenger, Victor J.. The new atheism: taking a stand for science and reason. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2009. Print.

Stenger, Victor J.. God and the folly of faith: the incompatibility of science and religion. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2012. Print.

Stenger, Victor J.. God and the multiverse: humanity’s expanding view of the cosmos. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2014. Print.

Mythology

Black, Jeremy, Anthony Green, and Tessa Rickards. Gods, demons and symbols of ancient Mesopotamia : an illustrated dictionary. London: British Museum Press for the Trustees of the British Museum, 1992. Print.

Dalley, Stephanie. Myths from Mesopotamia: creation, the flood, Gilgamesh, and others. Oxford [England: Oxford University Press, 1989. Print.

Heidel, Alexander. The Babylonian Genesis: the story of creation. 2nd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1963. Print.

Kramer, Samuel Noah. Sumerian mythology; a study of spiritual and literary achievement in the third millennium B.C.. Rev. ed. New York: Harper, 1961. Print.

Philosophy of Religion & Theodicy

Avalos, Hector. The end of biblical studies. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2007. Print.

Boghossian, Peter G.. A manual for creating atheists. Durham: Pitchstone Publishing, 2013. Print.

Dawkins, Richard. The God delusion. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 2006. Print.

Ehrman, Bart D.. God’s problem: how the Bible fails to answer our most important question–why we suffer. New York: HarperOne, 2008. Print.

Mackie, J. L.. The miracle of theism: arguments for and against the existence of God. Oxford [Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press ;, 1982. Print.

Martin, Michael. Atheism: a philosophical justification. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990. Print.

Onfray, Michel. Atheist manifesto the case against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. New York: Arcade Pub., 2011. Print.

Oppy, Graham Robert. Arguing about gods. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Print.

Oppy, Graham Robert. The best argument against God. Basingstoke, Hampshire [England: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Print.

Martin, Michael, and Ricki Monnier. The impossibility of God. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2003. Print.

Martin, Michael. The Cambridge companion to atheism. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Print.

Shook, John R.. The God debates: a 21st century guide for atheists and believers (and everyone in between). Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. Print.

Deconversions Stories & Collections

Andrews, Seth. Deconverted: a journey from religion to reason. Denver, Colo.: Outskirts Press, 2013. Print.

Antony, Louise M.. Philosophers without gods meditations on Atheism and the secular life. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Print.

Babinski, Edward T.. Leaving the fold: testimonies of former fundamentalists. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1995. Print.

Barker, Dan. Losing faith in faith: from preacher to atheist. Madison, Wis.: FFRF, Inc., 20061992. Print.

Barker, Dan, and Richard Dawkins. Godless: how an Evangelical preacher became one of America’s leading atheists. Berkeley, Calif.: Ulysses Press, 2008. Print.

Blackford, Russell, and Udo Schüklenk. 50 voices of disbelief: why we are atheists. Chichester, West Sussex, U.K.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. Print.

Dennett, D. C., and Linda Lascola. Caught in the pulpit: leaving belief behind. NA: Congruity, 2013. Print.

Hagenston, Richard. Fabricating faith: how Christianity became a religion Jesus would have rejected. Salem, Oregon: Polebridge Press, 2014. Print.

Harris, Sam. Waking up: a guide to spirituality without religion. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2014. Print.

Hedrick, Charles W.. When faith meets reason: religion scholars reflect on their spiritual journeys. Santa Rosa, Calif.: Polebridge Press, 2008. Print.

Huberman, Jack. The quotable atheist: ammunition for nonbelievers, political junkies, gadflies, and those generally hell-bound. New York: Nation Books :, 2007. Print.

Ingersoll, Robert Green, and Dean Tipton. Challenging the Bible: selections from the writings and speeches of Robert G. Ingersoll. Place of publication not identified: Immediex Pub., 2005. Print.

Loftus, John W.. Why I became an atheist: a former preacher rejects Christianity. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2008. Print.

Konner, Joan. The atheist’s Bible: an illustrious collection of irreverent thoughts. New York: Ecco/HarperCollins, 2007. Print.

Leedom, Tim C., and Maria Murdy. The book your church doesn’t want you to read: or synagogue, temple, mosque …. New York: Cambridge House Press, 2007. Print.

Lobdell, William. Losing my religion: how I lost my faith reporting on religion in America–and found unexpected peace. New York, NY: Collins, 2009. Print.

Tarico, Valerie. The dark side: how evangelical teachings corrupt love and truth. Seattle, WA: Dea press, 2006. Print.

Zuckerman, Phil. Faith no more: why people reject religion. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Print.