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The Top 10 Books About The History of Religion
1. The Evolution of God 2. 3 2 1: The Story of God, the World and You 3. The Man Who KnewToo Much 4. The Great Code: The Bible and Literature 5. Myth and Meaning: Cracking the Code of Culture 6. The Power of Myth 7. The Politics of Myth: A Study of C. G. Jung, Mircea Eliade, and Joseph Campbell 8.
- The Evolution of God
- 3 2 1: The Story of God, the World and You
- The Man Who KnewToo Much
- The Great Code: The Bible and Literature
- Myth and Meaning: Cracking the Code of Culture
- The Power of Myth
- The Politics of Myth: A Study of C. G. Jung, Mircea Eliade, and Joseph Campbell
- A Secular Age
- The Everlasting Man
- Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
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