Bibliography of books critical of Christianity

This is a bibliography of literature treating the topic of criticism of Christianity, sorted by source publication and the author's last name.

Books critical of Christianity

• Atheist Manifesto
• Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
• Christianity Unveiled
• Isis Unveiled
• God in the Age of Science?
• God Is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens
• God: The Failed Hypothesis
• The Age of Reason
• The Blind Watchmaker
• The End of Faith

• Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon, by Daniel Dennett
• The God Delusion, by Richard Dawkins
• The Jesus Mysteries by Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy (Element 1999)
• 101 myths of the Bible by Gary Greenberg (Sourcebooks 2000)
• A Rationalist Encyclopaedia: A book of reference on religion, philosophy, ethics and science, Gryphon Books (1971).
• BC The archaeology of the Bible lands, by Magnus Magnusson (Bodley Head 1977)
• Civilization and its discontents, by Sigmund Freud
• David and Solomon, by I. Finkelstein and N. Asherman (Freepress 2006)
• Death and Afterlife, Perspectives of World Religions, by Hiroshi Obayashi
• Einstein and Religion, by Max Jammer
• From Jesus to Christianity, by L. Michael White
• Future of an illusion, by Sigmund Freud
• God, the failed hypothesis by Victor J. Stenger (Prometheus Books, 2007)
• godless, by Dan Barker (Ulysses Press 2008)
• Jesus never existed by Kenneth Humphreys (Iconoclast Press, 2005)
• Letter to a Christian Nation, by Sam Harris
• Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why, by Bart Ehrman
• Not the Impossible Faith, by R. Carrier (Lulu 2009)
• Out of my later years and the World as I see it, by Albert Einstein
• Russell on Religion, by Louis Greenspan (Includes most all of Russell's essays on religion)
• Secret origins of the Bible by Tim Callahan (Millennium Press 2002)
• The Antichrist, by Friedrich Nietzsche
• The Bible unearthed, by I. Finkelstein and N. Asherman (Touchstone 2001)
• The Case Against Christianity by Michael Martin
• The case against the case for Christ by Robert M. Price (American atheist press 2010)
• The Christian Delusion, edited by John W. Loftus, foreword by Dan Barker (Prometheus Books, 2010)
• The encyclopedia of Biblical errancy, by C. Dennis McKinsey (Prometheus Books, 1995)
• The End of Christianity, edited by John W. Loftus (Prometheus Books, 2011)
• The god delusion, by Richard Dawkins (Blackswan 2010)
• The greatest show on earth, by Richard Dawkins (Blackswan 2007)
• The Historical Evidence for Jesus, by G. A. Wells (Prometheus Books, 1988)
• The Jesus Mysteries, by T. Freke and P. Gandy (Element 1999)
• The Jesus Puzzle, by Earl Doherty (Age of Reason Publications, 1999)
• The myth of Saint Thomas and the Mylapore Shiva Temple. Sharan, I. (2010).
• The Origins of Biblical Monotheism by Mark S. Smith (Oxford University Press 2001)
• The reason driven life by Robert M. Price (Prometheus Books, 2006)
• The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God, by Carl Sagan
• Understanding the Bible, by Stephen L Harris
• Where God and Science Meet [Three Volumes]: How Brain and Evolutionary Studies Alter Our Understanding of Religion, by Patrick McNamara
• Why I am not a Christian and other essays, by Bertrand Russell
• Why I Became an Atheist: A Former Preacher Rejects Christianity, by John W. Loftus (Prometheus Books, 2008)
• Rodney Stark God’s Battalions: The Case for the Crusades, HarperOne, 2010,
• Bekkenkamp, Jonneke and Sherwood, Yvonne, ed. Sanctified Aggression. Legacies of Biblical and Postbiblical Vocabularies of Violence. London/New York: T. & T. Clark International, 2003.
• Collins, John J. Does the Bible Justify Violence? Minneapolis: Fortress, 2004.
• Hedges, Chris. 2007. American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America. Free Press.
• Lea, Henry Charles. 1961. The Inquisition of the Middle Ages. Abridged. New York: Macmillan.
• MacMullen, Ramsay, 1989 "Christianizing the Roman Empire: AD 100–400"
• MacMullen, Ramsay, 1997, "Christianity and Paganism in the Fourth to Eighth Centuries"
• Mason, Carol. 2002. Killing for Life: The Apocalyptic Narrative of Pro-Life Politics. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
• McTernan, Oliver J. 2003. Violence in God's name: religion in an age of conflict. Orbis Books.
• Thiery, Daniel E. Polluting the Sacred: Violence, Faith and the Civilizing of Parishioners in Late Medieval England. Leiden: Brill, 2009.
• Zeskind, Leonard. 1987. The ‘Christian Identity’ Movement, [booklet]. Atlanta, Georgia: Center for Democratic Renewal/Division of Church and Society, National Council of Churches.
• Rajiv Malhotra (2011), Breaking India: Western Interventions in Dravidian and Dalit Faultlines (Publisher: Amaryllis; ISBN 978-8-191-06737-8)
• Christian Missionary Activities Enquiry Committee (Madhya Pradesh, India), and Sita Ram Goel. 1998. Vindicated by time: the Niyogi Committee report on Christian missionary activities.
• Dayananda, S., & Bharadwaja, C. (1915). Light of truth : Or an English translation of the Satyarth Prakash, the well-known work. Allahabad: Arya Pratinidhi Sabha. (Chapter 14)
• Elst, K. (1993). Psychology of prophetism: A secular look at the Bible.
• Ellens, J. Harold (2002). The Destructive Power of Religion: Violence in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Praeger Publishers. ISBN 0-275-99708-1.
• Gage, M. J. (1997). Woman, church and state: A historical account of the status of woman through the Christian ages, with reminiscences of the matriarchate.
• Goel, S. R. (1986). Papacy: Its doctrine and history.
• Goel, Sita Ram. 1994. Jesus Christ: an artifice for aggression.
• Goel, Sita Ram. 2009. Catholic ashrams: sannyasins or swindlers, with new appendices.
• Goel, Sita Ram. 2016. History of Hindu-Christian encounters, AD 304 to 1996.
• Hitchens, C. (2013). The missionary position: Mother Teresa in theory and in practice.
• Jacolliot, L. (2014). The Bible in India. New Delhi: Christian World Imprints.
• Karlheinz Deschner, Criminal History of Christianity
• Panikkar, K. M. (1959). Asia and Western dominance: A survey of the Vasco Da Gama epoch of Asian history. London: Allen & Unwin.
• Panikkar, K. M. (1997). Malabar and the Portuguese.
• Priolkar, A. K., & Dellon, G. (2008). The Goa inquisition: Being a quatercentenary commemoration study of the inquisition in India. Panaji: Rajhauns Vitaran.
• Shourie, Arun. (2006). Harvesting our souls: Missionaries, their design, their claims. New Delhi: Rupa.
• Shourie, Arun. (2006). Missionaries in India: Continuities, changes, dilemmas. New Delhi: Rupa.
• Shourie, Arun. Arun Shourie and his Christian critic. (1995).
• Swarup, Ram (1992). Hindu view of Christianity and Islam.
• Swarup, Ram. (1992). Hinduism vis-à-vis Christianity and Islam.
• Swarup, Ram. (1995). Pope John Paul II on Eastern religions and yoga: A Hindu Buddhist rejoinder.
• Swarup, Ram. (2015). Hinduism and monotheistic religions.
• Tyerman, Christopher. 2006. God's War: A New History of the Crusades. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, Belknap.
• Vedantham, T. R., Swarup, R., & Goel, S. R. (1983). Christianity, an imperialist ideology.
• Venkat, K., Humphreys, K., & Isaac, C. I. (2014). What every Hindu should know about Christianity.
• Vivekananda Kendra Prakashan Trust (Chennai, India). (2007). Expressions of Christianity: With a focus on India. Chennai: Vivekananda Kendra Prakashan Trust.

See also

• Bibliography of books critical of Islam