Pitchstone Publishing: 52 books
The Ebony Exodus Project
Why Some Black Women Are Walking Out on Religion-and Others Should Too
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Black women are the single most religious demographic in the United States, yet they are among the poorest, least educated, and least healthy groups in the nation. Drawing on the author's own past experience as an evangelical minister and her present work as a secular counselor and researcher, The...
Waking Up from War
A Better Way Home for Veterans and Nations
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Voices and stories of veterans, their families, and their care providers, reveal what is necessary for postwar healing
This book argues that the elements that contribute to healing war trauma—including safety, connection, community, dialogue, mutual respect, diversity, and compassion—can help...
by Peter Boghossian
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
For thousands of years, the faithful have honed proselytizing strategies and talked people into believing the truth of one holy book or another. Indeed, the faithful often view converting others as an obligation of their faith—and are trained from an early age to spread their unique brand of religion....
Attack of the Theocrats
How the Religious Right Harms Us All-and What We Can Do about It
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
At no time in history has the United States had such a high percentage of theocratic members of Congress—those who expressly endorse religious bias in law. Just as ominously, especially for those who share the values and views of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, at no other time have religious...
Broken Chain
Catholics Uncover the Holocaust's Hidden Legacy and Discover Jewish Roots
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
By the early 1990s, four thousand Jews remained in Poland, a startling figure considering 3.25 million Jews lived there at the start of World War II. Indeed, of all the horrors of the Holocaust, Polish Jewry suffered the worst fate. But miraculously, the Jewish community in Poland has been experiencing...
Blind Trust
Large Groups and Their Leaders in Times of Crisis and Terror
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Blind Trust is the culmination of more than three decades of profound immersion in the most pressing sociopolitical conflicts of our time, by the psychoanalyst with probably the most direct experience with such issues of any in the world. Author Vamik Volkan applies his knowledge of depth psychology...
Religious Knives
Historical and Psychological Dimensions of International Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
In this timely multidimensional study, historian Jouni Suistola and psychoanalyst Vamik D. Volkan draw on their respective disciplines and their own personal and professional experiences to investigate the historical and psychological roots of terrorism. Specifically, what is it in human nature that...
Oh, Your God!
The Evil Idea That Is Religion
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
This book is not just for atheists but for antitheists—for people who celebrated the writing of Christopher Hitchens and miss his voice
Making the provocative assertion that the entire enterprise of organized religion is a thing for which the world and our species would have been better without,...
The Citizen Lobbyist
A How-to Manual for Making Your Voice Heard in Government
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
A handbook for anyone who wants to learn about how to be active in local, state, and federal government, The Citizen Lobbyist shows how to have a voice in creating public policy. More citizen involvement is needed in our government processes to ensure the voices of the people are heard over the money...
Why We Believe in God(s)
A Concise Guide to the Science of Faith
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
In this groundbreaking volume, J. Anderson Thomson, Jr., MD, with Clare Aukofer, offers a succinct yet comprehensive study of how and why the human mind generates religious belief. Dr. Thomson, a highly respected practicing psychiatrist with credentials in forensic psychiatry and evolutionary psychology,...
by James Lindsay
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Life is short, and it can be sweet. Contemplating death is looking into a mirror that allows us to see these simple facts clearly, as if for the first time. We have every reason to believe that we have but one life to live—and no good reasons to believe otherwise—and death marks the termination...
Women Beyond Belief
Discovering Life Without Religion
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Women have made great strides toward equal rights over the past hundred years, especially in the West. But when considering the ongoing fight over reproductive rights and equal pay—and the prevalence of sexual violence and domestic abuse—it is clear that a significant gap still exists. With scripture...
Rise and Fall of Faith
A God-to-Godless Story for Christians and Atheists
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
The story of religion in the twenty-first-century West has been defined, in part, by the stories of once-zealous pastors moving beyond their faith to embrace a life of reason. But too often and too quickly ardent believers dismiss such accounts as aberrations and fail to consider the real-life implications...
To the Cross and Back
An Immigrant's Journey from Faith to Reason
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
A Mexican immigrant and rising star within the Christian community abandons his faith and comes out as a gay atheist
In this exceptionally moving and soul-searching memoir, Fernando Alcántar recounts his incredible journey from poor Catholic boy on the dusty streets of Mexico to globetrotting...