This is a NEW list selected from this Category: Religion & Politics of Religion (131). Books rated at 6 Stars are in bold.
Guest Reviews
Review (Guest): Animal Farm–An American Story (George Orwell)
Review (Guest): A Tactical Ethic–Moral Conduct in the Insurgent Battlespace (Dick Couch)
Review (Guest): Buddhism without Beliefs (Craig K. Comstock)
Review (Guest): Deadly Embrace–Pakistan, America and the Future of Global Jihad (Bruce Riedel)
Review (Guest): Evolutionaries – Unlocking the Spiritual and Cultural Potential of Science’s Greatest Idea (Carter Phipps)
Review (Guest): Gandhi and the Unspeakable (James W. Douglass)
Review (Guest): Idiot America — How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free (Charles Pierce)
Review (Guest): I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts: Drive-by Essays on American Dread, American Dreams (Mark Dery)
Review (Guest): Neuroscience, Psychology, and Religion–Illusions, Delusions, and Realities about Human Nature (Malcolm Jeeves and Warren S. Brown)
Review (Guest): Principles of Neurotheology (Andrew Newberg)
Review (Guest): Ralph Peters on The Open Source Everything Manifesto – Transparency, Truth & Trust (Robert David Steele)
Review (Guest): The Conquest of Violence – The Gandhian Philosophy of Conflict (Joan Valerie Bondurant)
Review (Guest): The House of Wisdom – How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization (Jonathan Lyons)
Review (Guest): The Invention of the Land of Israel: From Holy Land to Homeland (Shlomo Sand)
Review (Guest): The Phenomenon of Man (Pierre Teilhard de Chardin)
Review (Guest): The Shell Game (Fiction/Non-Fiction) (Steve Allen)
Reviews by Robert David STEELE Vivas
Review: 101 Myths of the Bible–How Ancient Scribes Invented Biblical History (Gary Greenberg)
Review: A Civilization of Love–What Every Catholic Can Do to Transform the World (Carl Anderson)
Review: A Dictionary and Glossary of the Koran (John Penrice)
Review: Against the Grain–Christianity and Democracy, War and Peace (George Weigel)
Review: American Fascists–The Christian Right and the War On America (Chris Hedges)
Review: American Gospel–God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation (Jon Meacham)
Review: American Theocracy–The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century (Kevin Phillips)
Review: Christianity, Evolution and the Breath of Life (Ralph Armstrong)
Review: Conversations with God–An Uncommon Dialogue (Book 1) (Neale Donald Walsch)
Review: Conversations With God–An Uncommon Dialogue (Book 2) (Neale Donald Walsch)
Review: Conversations With God–An Uncommon Dialogue (Book #3) (Neale Donald Walsch)
Review: Cultural Intelligence for Winning the Peace (Juliana Geran Pilon)
Review: Daydream Believers–How a Few Grand Ideas Wrecked American Power (Fred Kaplan)
Review: Devil’s Game–How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam (Robert Dreyfuss)
Review: Dogs of God–Columbus, the Inquisition, and the Defeat of the Moors (James Rston Jr.)
Review: Earthspirit–A Handbook for Nurturing an Ecological Christianity (Micahel Dowd)
Review: Embracing Israel / Palestine (Michael Lerner)
Review: Endless War–Middle-Eastern Islam vs. Western Civilization (Ralph Peters)
Review: Evolutionary Activism (Tom Atlee)
Review: Faith-Based Diplomacy–Trumping Realpolitik (David Johnston)
Review: Founding Faith–Providence, Politics, and the Birth of Religious Freedom in America (Steven Waldman)
Review: Full Spectrum Diplomacy and Grand Strategy – Reforming the Structure and Culture of U.S. Foreign Policy (John Lenczowski)
Review : Global Shift–How A New Worldview Is Transforming Humanity (Edmund J. Bourne)
Review: God and Science–Coming Full Circle (James F. Molben)
Review: God’s Politics–Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It (Jim Wallis)
Review: Good Muslim, Bad Muslim–America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terror (Mahmood Mandani)
Review: Homeland Earth (Edgar Morin and Anne Brigitte Kern)
Review: HOW ISRAEL LOST (Richard Ben Cramer)
Review: How The World Really Works (Alan B. Jones)
Review: Intelligence and the War in Bosnia–1992-1995 (Cees Wiebes)
Review: Islamic Leviathan–Islam and the Making of State Power (Seyyed Vali Reza Nasr)
Review: Kids Who Kill–Confronting Our Culture of Violence (Mike Huckabee)
Review: Leadership Lessons of Jesus (Bob Briner)
Review: Lines of Fire – A Renegade Writes on Strategy, Intelligence, and Security (Ralph Peters)
Review: Living Beyond Your Lifetime–How to be Intentional About the Legacy You Leave (Mike Huckabee)
Review: Living In Hell–A True Odyssey of a Woman’s Struggle in Islamic Iran Against Personal and Political Forces (Ghazai Omid)
Review: Making Friends Among the Taliban (Jonathan P. Larson)
Review: Marching Toward Hell–America and Islam After Iraq (Michael Scheuer)
Review: Militant Islam in Southeast Asia–Crucible of Terror (Zachary Abuza)
Review: Misquoting Jesus–The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why (Plus) (Bart D. Ehrman)
Review: Nelson’s Complete Book of Bible Maps and Charts (Thomas Nelson)
Review: Nonzero–The Logic of Human Destiny (Robert Wright)
Review: On God’s Side: What Religion Forgets and Politics Hasn’t Learned about Serving the Common Good (Jim Wallis)
Review: Pagan Christianity?: Exploring the Roots of Our Church Practices (Frank Viola)
Review: Palestine–Peace Not Apartheid (Jimmy Carter)
Review: Piety & Politics–The Right-Wing Assault on Religious Freedom (Barry W. Lynn)
Review: Questions of Truth–Fifty-one Responses to Questions About God, Science, and Belief (John C. Polkinghorne and Nicholas Beale)
Review: Reconciliation–Islam, Democracy, and the West (Benazir Bhutto)
Review: Religion Gone Bad–The Hidden Dangers of the Christian Right (Mel White)
Review: Religion, The Missing Dimension of Statecraft (Douglas Johnston)
Review: Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace – How We Got to Be So Hated (Gore Vidal)
Review: Never Quit the Fight (Ralph Peters)
Review: Sign of the Cross (Chris Kuzneski)
Review: Spies in the Vatican–Espionage & Intrigue from Napoleon to the Holocaust (David Alvarez)
Review: Surrender to Kindness (One Man’s Epic Journey for Love and Peace) (Joseph David Osman)
Review: Taliban — The Unknown Enemy (James Fergusson)
Review: Talking Politics with God and the Devil in Washington, D.C. (John Stanton)
Review: Tempting Faith–An Inside Story of Political Seduction (David Kuo)
Review: Thank God for Evolution–How the Marriage of Science and Religion Will Transform Your Life and Our World (Michael Dowd)
Review: The Amish Way–Patient Faith in a Perilous World (Donald B. Kraybill,Steven M. Nolt, David L. Weaver-Zercher)
Review: The Art of Happiness at Work (Dalai Lama)
Review: The Beginning of All Things–Science and Religion (Hans Kung)
Review: The Bhagavad Gita–A Walkthrough for Westerners (Jack Hawley)
Review: The Clash of Ideas in World Politics–Transnational Networks, States, and Regime Change, 1510-2010 (John M. Owen)
Review: The Complete Conversations with God (Neale Donald Walsch)
Review: The Conservative Soul–How We Lost It, How to Get It Back (Andrew Sullivan)
Review: The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)
Review: The End of Faith–Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason (Sam Harris)
Review: The Fifteen Century War, Islam’s Violent Heritage (Morgan Norval)
Review: The Final Move Beyond Iraq–The Final Solution While the World Sleeps (Mike Evans)
Review: The Genius of the Beast–A Radical Re-Vision of Capitalism (Howard Bloom)
Review: The God Delusion (Richard Dawkins)
Review: The God Problem – How A Godless Cosmos Creates (Howard Bloom)
Review: The Great Turning–From Empire to Earth Community (David C. Korten)
Review: The Invention of the Jewish People (Shlomo Sand)
Review: The Left Hand of God–Taking Back Our Country from the Religious Right (Michael Lerner)
Review: The Life & Death of NSSM 200: How the Destruction of Political Will Doomed a U. S. Population Policy
Review: The Lucifer Principle–A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History (Howard Bloom)
Review: The Passion–Photography from the Movie “The Passion of the Christ” (Mel Gibson)
Review: The Open Source Everything Manifesto – Transparency, Truth & Trust (Robert David Steele)
Review: The Qur’an Translation (Sayed A. A. Razwy)
Review: The Routledge Atlas of Jewish History (Martin Gilbert)
Review: The Thistle and the Drone: How America’s War on Terror Became a Global War on Tribal Islam (Akbar Ahmed)
Review: The War After Armagedoon (Ralph Peters)
Review: They Dare to Speak Out–People and Institutions Confront Israel’s Lobby (Paul Findley)
Review: To Save America Stopping Obama’s Secular-Socialist Machine (Newt Gingrich)
Review: Threshold–The Crisis of Western Culture (Thom Hartmann)
Review: Tremble the Devil (Anonymous)
Review: Wars of Blood and Faith–The Conflicts That Will Shape the 21st Century (Ralph Peters)
Review: While America Sleeps–How Islam, Immigration and Indoctrination Are Destroying America From Within (Wells Earl Draughton)
Review: Who Speaks For Islam?–What a Billion Muslims Really Think (John L. Esposito)
Review: Wingnuts–How the Lunatic Fringe is Hijacking America (John P. Avlon)
Review: Winning the Long War: Retaking the Offensive against Radical Islam (Ilam Berman)
Review DVD: Bonhoeffer (Eberhard Bethge)
Review DVD: Death of a President (Hend Ayoub)
Review DVD: Gandhi (Ben Kingsley)
Review DVD: Left Behind – The Movie (Kirk Cameron)
Review DVD Revelation (Carol Alt)
Review DVD: The Theory of Everything (David De Vos)
Review DVD: Tibet – Cry of the Snow Lion (Shirley Knight)
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