Culture and Religion Past - Mythology and Religion Present - Religion and Culture Present - Religion and Moral Values Present - Politics Future CounterPoint to BreakPoint Publications - catastrophism Books About the Author Email me NOF - Culture and Religion [LINK] [LINK] [LINK] [LINK] [LINK] [LINK] [LINK] [LINK] [LINK] Culture and Religion Books of Science and Mythology Each book here is one that I have read and found worthy of notice. A few of these books have been published several times and re-copyrighted (some became available in paperback); the year shown below is usually the initial date of publication, not the latest. Year Title Author(s) Description/Subtitle 1950 Worlds in Collision Immanuel Velikovsky Cosmic upheavals in ancient history (the seminal work investigating correlations between ancient mythologies and writings with physical events reported around the world) (book) 1952 Ages in Chaos Immanuel Velikovsky Reconstruction of ancient history (book) 1955 Earth in Upheaval Immanuel Velikovsky Subtitle: The vivid documentation of cataclysmic evolution (book) 1965 The Passover Plot Hugh Schonfield Analysis of the sequence of events leading up to and after the crucifixion of Jesus (book) 1968 Those Incredible Christians Hugh Schonfield Reconstruction of the first 200 years of the Church of Rome (book) 1974 The Pentecost Revolution Hugh Schonfield Subtitle: The Story of the Jesus Party in Israel, AD 36-66 (book) 1976 The Age of Velikovsky C. J. Ransom Overview of Velikovsky's theory and its support (book) 1976 Velikovsky Reconsidered Editors of Pensee Subtitle: Yesterday's Heresy - Today's Science; Revaluation of the Affair Velikovsky (book) 1977 Index to Velikovsky, Volume I Alice Miller Index to Velikovsky's works (up to 1976) 1977 Peoples of the Sea Immanuel Velikovsky Subtitle: Reconstruction of Ancient History (book) 1980 The Saturn Myth David Talbott Investigates Saturn in ancient myths (book) 1982 Holy Blood, Holy Grail Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln Explores the theory that the Holy Grail is the Jesus bloodline and investigates the past 2000 years of Church history in light of that theory (book) 1982 Mankind in Amnesia Immanuel Velikovsky Collective amnesia - after survival of ancient catastrophes (book) 1983 Stargazers and Gravediggers Immanuel Velikovsky Subtitle: Memoirs to Worlds in Collision (book) 1986 The Messianic Legacy Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln Explores a contemporary secret society in Europe that traces its lineage to Jesus (book) 1987 The Monuments of Mars Richard Hoagland Subtitle: A City on the Edge of Forever (the Face on Mars is near a number of other structures that also seem to be artificial) (book) 1989 Memories and Visions of Paradise Richard Heinberg Subtitle: Exploring the Universal Myth of a Lost Golden Age (book) 1989 Environment of Violence C. Warren Hunt Subtitle: Readings of Cataclysm Cast in Stone (book) 1991 After the Cross Hugh Schonfield What really happened around the time of the Crucifixion (book) 1991 The Big Bang Never Happened Eric J. Lerner Recent developments in cosmology (book) 1991 The Dead Sea Scrolls Deception Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh Subtitle: Why a Handful of Religious Scholars Conspired to Suppress the Revolutionary Contents of the Dead Sea Scrolls (book) 1992 The Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered Richard Eisenman and Michael Wise Dead Sea Scrolls revealed: the first complete translation and interpretation of 50 key documents withheld for over 35 years (book) 1992 Jesus and the Riddle of the Dead Sea Scrolls Barbara Thiering Subtitle: Unlocking the Secrets of his Life Story (book) 1995 Fingerprints of the Gods Graham Hancock Subtitle: The Evidence of Earth's Lost Civilization (book) 1996 James the Brother of Jesus Robert Eisenman Subtitle: The Key to Unlocking the Secrets of Early Christianity and the Dead Sea Scrolls (book) 1997 The Templar Revelation Lynn Pickett and Clive Prince Subtitle: Secret Guardians of the True Identity of Christ (book) 1997 Symbols of An Alien Sky David Talbott slide presentation and notes - recent developments for the Saturn Myth 1998 The Electric Universe Wallace Thornhill slide presentation and notes - discussion of new cosmology 1998 Seeing Red: redshifts, cosmology and academic science Halton Arp Observations showing that extragalactic redshifts are not caused by an expanding universe; an account of crucial observations being ignored and suppressed; academic science is failing its ideals and potential (book) 2000 Mysterious Lights and Crop Circles Linda Moulton Howe investigation into crop circles (mostly the collection in England during the summer of 1999) and the sometimes associated lights (book) 2003 Pillars of the Past Charles Ginenthal History, Science, Technology related to Chronology; the comparison of scientific and technological evidence in the Near East with the chronology accepted by many historians for Egypt, Greece and Mesopotamia (book) 2005 Our Inner Ape Frans de Wall Subtitle:A leading primatologist explains why we are who we are (book) 2006 The Jesus Papers Michael Baigent Exposing the greatest cover-up in history, that Jesus survived the crucifixion and returned to Egypt, where he had received his teaching in the rites of Egyptian mysticism (book) 2006 The Electric Sky Donald E Scott Subtitle: A challenge to the myths of modern astronomy (book) 2007 In Defense of Dolphins Thomas I. White The author's stated aim of the book is for the reader to reconsider our relationship with nonhumans on this planet (book)