ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD DEFINED RELIGION AS 'WHAT A MAN DOES WITH HIS SOLITARINESS.'
Carl Bielefeldt, Dogen's Manuals of Zen Meditation (Berkeley & London: U. of California Press, 1988).
Alain de Bottom, Religion for Atheists: A Non-believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion (New York & London; Pantheon Books, 2012) ("To judge by what they do rather than what they airily declaim, universities are in the business of turning out a majority of tightly focused professionals (lawyers, physicians, engineers) and a minority of culturally well-informed but ethically confused art graduates aptly panicked about how they might remuneratively occupy the rest of their lives." "We have implicitly charged our higher education system with a dual and possibly contradictory mission: to teach us how to make a living and to teach us how to live. And we have left the second of these two aims recklessly vague and unattended." Id. at 105-106. "To answer our longing for calm, Western consumer society has over the last fifty years refined the concept of sunbathing; Buddhism has takeover a thousand years to perfect the art of meditation." Id. at 152. "From the bookjacket: "Religion for Atheists suggests that rather than mocking religion, agnostics and atheists should instead steal from it--because the world's religions are packed with good ideas on how we might live and arrange our societies. Blending deep respect with total impiety, de Bottom (a non-believer himself) proposes that we look to religion for insights into how to, among other concerns, build a sense of community, make our relationships last, overcome feeling of envy and inadequacy, inspire travel and reconnect with the natural world.").
Robert E. Buswell Jr., & Donald S. Lopez Jr., The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism (Princeton & Oxford: Princeton U. Press, 2014).
Jack Miles, Wendy Doniger, Donald S. Lopez, Jr., & James Robson, eds., The Norton Anthology of World Religions Volume 1: Hinduism, Buddhism, Daoism (New York & London: Norton, 2015) (See William Dalrymple, "Among Believers," NYT Book Review, Sunday12/21/2014.).
Jack Miles, David Biale, Lawrence S. Cunningham, & Jane Dammen McAuliffe, eds., The Norton Anthology of World Religions Volume 2: Judaism, Christianity, Islam (New York & London: Norton, 2015) (See Karen Armstrong, "Articles of Faith," NYT Book Review, Sunday12/21/2014.).
Gerard Russell, Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms: Journeys Into the Disappearing Religions of the Middle East (New York: Basic Books, 2014) (See Mohamad Bazzi, "Last Adherents," NYT Book Review, Sunday12/21/2014.).
Shinran, Shinran's Kyogyoshinsho: The Collection of Passages Expounding the True Teachings, Living, Faith, and Realizing of the Pure Land, translated by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, edited by The Center for Shin Buddhist Studies, under the Supervision of Sengaku Mayeda (Oxford & New York: Oxford U. Press, 2012).
