Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Publishing Company, (1996.). A comprehensive anthology containing essays by many anthropologists include Claude Levi-Strauss, Peter Furst, Francis Huxley, Bronislaw Malinowski, Carl Sagan, Lawrence Wright and others. This edition includes nine new articles. Among the sections are those on shamans, on the religious use of drugs, and on ethnomedicine. Map, an extensive bibliography, glossary and index. Slightly oversized square format. 474 pp. ISBN: 1559346884.

Philadelphia: Judson Press, (1922.). Hardcover first edition - Although primarily an account of Christian Protestant missionaries work in the Belgian Congo, this also gives a picture of Africa itself and of the lives of the Africans. Includes one chapter on "rival practicioners" - on medicine men and medical missionaries. Illustrated with photographs. Fold-out map. Uncommon. 200 pp.

New York: Fleming H. Ravel, (1936.). Hardcover first edition - The author made several trips to the Belgian Congo, visiting with missionaries there - but this book focuses on the native African people - on their ways - but also on their reactions to missionaries and to other whites who came to their country - the first chapter begins with Mongo, the cannibal, recounting his story and Yuka recalling his meeting with Stanley.Includes chapters on women, witch doctors, on the work of the missionaries, the difficulties of travel and more. Illustrated with photographs. 175 pp.

New York: Arcade Publishing, (1991). Black activist and award-winning author's account of his path from his boyhood as the son of a Black Methodist minister in the South to his conversion to Judaism. Glossary. 248 pp. ISBN: 1-559701757.

Boston: Beacon, 1961. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book. The first full study of the Black Muslims with a foreword by Gordon W. Allport.

Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, (2017). First edition - A book which "explores the faith that, Robinson said, carried him through the torment and abuse he suffered for integrating the major leagues and drove him to get involved in the civil rights movement. Marked by sacrifice and service, inclusiveness and hope, Robinsons faith shaped not only his character but also baseball and America itself." Notes, index. ix, 206 pp. ISBN: 978-0664262037.

Cambridge, MA: The Central Committee of the United Study of Foreign Missions, (1928.). First edition - A study of conditions in Africa, and the part Christian friends of Africa may hope to play - as teachers, doctors, and more. Illustrated with photographs, a colored map. Bibliography, index. 250 pp.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Includes a long introduction with information about the Shakers and their food preparation, kitchens, etc, plus 100 recipes accompanied by numerous full-page color photographs. Bibliography, index. Oversized format. 151 pp. ISBN: 0-684-801108.

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, (1997). Hardcover first edition - A book which reassesses the transition from paganism to Christianity - "many pagan practices persisted in the Christian church for hundreds of years after Constantine proclaimed Christianity the one official religion of Rome. . .[Macmullen] shows that the two religious systems were both vital during an interactive period that lasted far longer than historians have previously believed. . .; he demonstrates that pagan beliefs were not eclipse or displaced by Christianity but persisted or were transformed." Extensive notes, bibliography, index. vi, 282 pp. ISBN: 0-300071485.

New York: St Martin's, (2004) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a retelling of the story of Noah (or Noe as he is appears here) from the perspective of his family. Ann Patchett calls it "Funny, tender, intelligent, energetic, irreverent, and worshipful... An enormous juggling act of families, animals, and faith." Clever book design and dust jacket design by Jonathan Bennett and Steve Snider, respectively, dust jacket illustration by Bill Sanderson. 230 pp. ISBN: 0-312328478.

Elgin, IL: David C. Cook Publishing Co. (1929) dj. Hardcover first edition - Historical novel set in England in the sixth century, at the dawn of Christianity in the British isles. Illustrated with 9 glossy plates by L.E. Dugger. Author's foreword. 100 pp.

New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. dj. Hardcover first edition - A fresh look at one of the most charismatic figures of the Italian Renaissance. Illustrated with maps and photographs in full color. Notes, bibliography, index. xvi, 336 pp. ISBN: 0-19-5177487.

New London, New Hampshire: Tiffin Press, (1995.). Hardcover first edition - Biography (by his eldest daughter) of this doctor, a college and Olympic athlete, and a deeply religious man, who spent most of his life serving in China - from 1907 to 1912 and in Shanghai from 1914 to 1942, including under the Japanese occupation, and following repatriation to the U.S. during World War II, he returned to China after the war, " helping in the monumental task of revitalizing the St. John's University medical department, coping with wartime devastation, shortages of money, fuel, food, supplies, and the vagaries of an emerging communist government." Photographs. List of graduates of St John's Medical College, Notes. 275 pp. ISBN: 0-9646018-18.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1949. dj. Hardcover first edition - A light-hearted look at saints, holiness and miracles by the American-born wife of the French sculptor Aristide Mian, and inspired by the years when she and her family summered in an abandoned coffin - in this version, when the nuns move out of a convent they convert it into a Saints' Rest Home, but when Satan finds out, havoc follows. Illustrated with drawings by Susanne Suba. 132 pp.

Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, 1854. Hardcover first edition - From the German. Engraved frontispiece. Preface. Stories with a very strong moral bent - written "to illustrate the importance of the Scriptural injunction 'to train up a child in the way he should go'." v, 333 pp.

New York: P. J. Kenedy & Sons, (1961). Hardcover first edition - The author's experiences as a Roman Catholic missionary to the Mengen tribes on the South Sea island of New Britain in the years after World War II. The members of the tribe describe themselves in the Melanesian idiom as " we the people." Illustrated with photographs. Preface by the Bishop of Rabaul. xiii, 248 pp. End paper maps of the territory of Papua New Guinea and New Britain.

Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press 1925. Hardcover first edition - The second of Odum's three classic works on African American music. As noted in the preface, the songs in this volume were collected in northern Mississippi and northern Georgia, with a few other songs and fragments from North Carolina and Tennessee included for comparative purposes. They are divided into three categories: religious songs (the largest group), social songs, and work songs. Much of the book consists of the lyrics to the songs. Includes a select bibliography, and an index to the songs. vii, 306 pp.

Boston: Directors of the Old South Work, nd (ca 1890). Hardcover - Facsimile edition containing 25 of the leaflets published by the Old South Church in Boston. The leaflets were reprints of significant documents, speeches, narratives, and more, most related to American history but also some in England and Europe like the Dutch Declaration of Independence, a speech by Cromwell, etc. Included is this volume are speeches by Cotton Mather, George Washington, Governor Hutchinson, an essay by John Eliot on "Indian Grammar Begun", the Monroe Doctrine, ship-papers and more. Each leaflet is numbered individually.

New York & Tokyo: Weatherhill, (1971) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first English translation of this record of the later years of P'ang Yun, recounted in an anecdotal style. Illustrated with two color and four halftone plates, planned, designed and produced at the Tokyo offices of John Weatherhill. Includes an introduction, supplemental notes, bibliography and index. 109 pp plus colophon. lllustrated endpapers. Jacket design by Naoto Kondo.

New York: Penguin, (1969.). A study of the traditional indigenous religions of Africa and of the practice and influence of Christianity and Islam there. Bibliography, map, index, 253p

New York: Hill & Wang (Farrar, Strauss & Giroux), (2008) dj. Hardcover first edition - A brief look at the most prevalent reasons why people claim that God exists - or miracles happen - and just how illogical these are. Index. 158 pp. ISBN: 9780809059195.

New York: Da Capo Press, (2010). First edition - A memoir of growing up "between Baptist endtimers and apocalyptic Greens. The authors childhood in the high Sierra with her forest ranger father led her to embrace the entire natural world, while her Southern Baptist relatives prepared eagerly and busily to leave this world." 275 pp.

Manchester, CT: Foghorn Publishers, (2007) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A Sacramento, California minister and motivational leader provides detailed keys to gaining financial security and living out personal passions, hobbies, and desires. A key focus on religion, belief and the power of God. SIGNED and dated on the front endpaper. ISBN: 1934466018.

New York: Putnam, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author, a noted theologian and educator, "reflects on the role of faith in his own life and in the lives of African-Americans, chronicling his family history from the time during which his grandmother was a slave." Foreword by Marion Wright Edelman. xxiv, 243 pp. ISBN: 0-399140891.

New York: Soho Crime, (2023). First edition - The third thriller set in Accra, Ghana and featuring private investigator Emma Djan and her colleagues at the Sowah Detective Agency. Glossaries. 328 pp.

New York: Soho Crime, (2018) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fifth atmospheric thriller set in Accra, Ghana and featuring Chief Inspector Darko Dawson, who investigates the brutal murder of a high-society bride, accused of being a witch before her death. "In order to expose the truth, Darko must confront the pivotal role religion plays in Ghana - and wrestle with his old demons the investigation stirs up." SIGNED on the title page. Glossary. 257 pp. ISBN: 978-1616957087.

New York: Browndeer Press / Harcourt Brace. (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A sensitive and accurate portrayal of the lives and beliefs of the Shakers as seen through the eyes of a boy who is given into their care at age six and spends the rest of his life learning the songs and the ways of the Shakers. Includes the words and music from seven songs from Shaker collections and the author's historical note at the beginning. Illustrated with vivid paintings by Jeanette Winter. Large format, unpaginated. ISBN: 0-15-2769218.

New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. A completely revised and updated version of the 1983 book, 'The Biology of Religion.' Reveals how religions in all parts of the world meets the needs of ordinary people - includes discussion of such topics as sex in and out of marriage, circumsion, sickness, faith, divorce and widowhood, birth and childhood, and the challenges of modernity. Map, illustrations, notes, index. 322 pp. ISBN: 0-19-5069749.