I am reading :


Desperately Seeking Paradise by Ziauddin Zardar

The Islamist by Ed Husain

The First Crusade by Thomas Asbridge

"Grace and Grit" by Ken Wilber

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When the bird and the book disagree, always believe the bird.

The Myth of the Eternal Return - Mircea Eliade

The Lure of the Sinister - Gareth Medway

Seven Story Mountain - Thomas Merton

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"The Lord can make you tumble, the Lord can make you turn, the Lord can make you overflow...but the Lord can't make you burn." - Randy Newman

Goldie Hawn-----------It is not under religious books ...but is a very nice book of a personal Journey that includes a spiritual path and it is just a beautiful book to read

....Moses and Akhenaten: The secret history of Egypt at the time of the Exodus, by Ahmed Osman. I was re-reading it, actually. It's interesting, but incorrxct on a number of points. I think he's very likely "on to something", but he will not prove it to the scholars.

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Grassaf, Eolas

Brahmacarya in Krishna Consciousness by Bhakti Vikasa Swami. All about self-control and practical love of God.

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http://www.fireinthehapter.co.uk - A hapless webcomic

I've gotten interested in wicca lately, I've been reading/just finished the following:

The Spiral Dance, by Starhawk;
The Everything Wicca and Witchcraft Book, by Skye Alexander,
Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner, by Scott Cunningham.

The Holy Bible, by God

and

God Supernatural Power, by Bobby Conner

Do religious experiences come from God, or are they merely the random firing of neurons in the brain? Drawing on his own research with Carmelite nuns, neuroscientist Mario Beauregard shows that genuine, life-changing spiritual events can be documented. He offers compelling evidence that religious experiences have a nonmaterial origin, making a convincing case for what many in scientific fields are loath to consider—that it is God who creates our spiritual experiences, not the brain.

Beauregard and O'Leary explore recent attempts to locate a "God gene" in some of us and claims that our brains are "hardwired" for religion—even the strange case of one neuroscientist who allegedly invented an electromagnetic "God helmet" that could produce a mystical experience in anyone who wore it. The authors argue that these attempts are misguided and narrow-minded, because they reduce spiritual experiences to material phenomena.

Many scientists ignore hard evidence that challenges their materialistic prejudice, clinging to the limited view that our experiences are explainable only by material causes, in the obstinate conviction that the physical world is the only reality. But scientific materialism is at a loss to explain irrefutable accounts of mind over matter, of intuition, willpower, and leaps of faith, of the "placebo effect" in medicine, of near-death experiences on the operating table, and of psychic premonitions of a loved one in crisis, to say nothing of the occasional sense of oneness with nature and mystical experiences in meditation or prayer. Traditional science explains away these and other occurrences as delusions or misunderstandings, but by exploring the latest neurological research on phenomena such as these, The Spiritual Brain gets to their real source.

Books on the go now (borrowed from the local library - it is MUCH cheaper!
Upanisads - Oxford World's Classics
Hunduism: A very short introduction - Kim Knott
A concise encyclopedia of Judaism - Dan Cohn - Sherbok
A-Z guide to the Qur'an - Mokhtar Stork
The Jesus Sutras - Martin Palmer