What Is The Power Of Belief Systems?

This is an alphabetical version.  For a subjective ranked version see: Ranked: What Is The Power Of Belief Systems?

Belief systems incorporate philosophy, myths, faith, spirituality, and religion.  

Application Of Belief Systems:

• A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles by Thomas Sowell
• Confidence Games: Money and Markets in a World without Redemption by Mark C. Taylor
• The Lessons of History by Will Durant, Ariel Durant
• The Girl at the Baggage Claim: Explaining the East-West Culture Gap by Gish Jen
• Nature Wars: The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards into Battlegrounds by Jim Sterba
• Man's Search For Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
• The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl Popper
• A Philosophy of Evil by Lars Svendsen
• The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
• The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It: On Social Position and How We Use it by Will Storr
• Theory and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science by Peter Godfrey-Smith
• A Treatise on Efficacy: Between Western and Chinese Thinking by François Jullien
• War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges
• The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World by Charles C. Mann
• Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America by John McWhorter

Fiction:

• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu (The Three-Body Problem Series)
• The Renegade, or A Confused Mind by Albert Camus (Exile and the Kingdom)

Various:

• Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
• The Heroine With 1,001 Faces by Maria Tatar
• The Inner Work of Age: Shifting from Role to Soul by Connie Zweig
• A Little History of the World by E.H. Gombrich
• A Short History of Myth by Karen Armstrong
• The Socrates Express: In Search of Life Lessons from Dead Philosophers by Eric Weiner
• Ways of the World: A Brief Global History with Sources by Robert W. Strayer
• World Cultures: Analyzing Pre-Industrial Societies In Africa, Asia, Europe, And the Americas by James T. Shea

Critique:

• If Ignorance Is Bliss, We Should All Be Ecstatic by Fred Leavitt
• Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche

Abrahamic:

• The Evolution of God by Robert Wright

Christianity:

• Charlemagne by Johannes Fried
• Civilization: The West and the Rest by Niall Ferguson
• Empire: How Spain Became a World Power, 1492-1763 by Henry Kamen
• From Plato To NATO: The Idea of the West and Its Opponents by David Gress
• How the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill
• Inquisition by Edward Peters
• When Women Ruled The World by Maureen Quilligan
• The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire by Tore Skeie

Christianity / Critique:

• The Age of Reason: Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology by Thomas Paine
• The Dream of Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Philosophy by Anthony Gottlieb
• The Island at the Center of the World by Russell Shorto
• Kepler's Witch: An Astronomer's Discovery of Cosmic Order Amid Religious War, Political Intrigue, and the Heresy Trial of His Mother by James A. Connor
• Meditations for the Humanist: Ethics for a Secular Age by A. C. Grayling
• Napoleon: A Life by Andrew Roberts
• On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
• Saladin: The Sultan Who Vanquished the Crusaders and Built an Islamic Empire by John Man

Christianity / Fiction:

• The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• The River Why by David James Duncan

Islam:

• The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror by Bernard Lewis
• The Golden Age of Islam by Maurice Lombard
• A History of Medieval Islam by J.J. Saunders
• The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World by Marie Favereau
• Islam: A Short History by Karen Armstrong
• Saladin: The Sultan Who Vanquished the Crusaders and Built an Islamic Empire by John Man

Judaism:

• The Invention of the Land of Israel: From Holy Land to Homeland by Shlomo Sand

United States of America:

• The Myth of Left and Right: How the Political Spectrum Misleads and Harms America by Verlan Lewis, Hyrum Lewis

Aztecs:

• Aztecs: A History From Beginning to End by Henry Freeman

Buddhism:

• Buddha by Karen Armstrong
• Japanese Culture: The Religious and Philosophical Foundations by Roger J. Davies
• Tibet on Fire: Self-Immolations Against Chinese Rule by Tsering Woeser
• Why Buddhism Is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment by Robert Wright

Zen:

• Japanese Culture: The Religious and Philosophical Foundations by Roger J. Davies

Confucianism:

• Japanese Culture: The Religious and Philosophical Foundations by Roger J. Davies
• The New Chinese Empire: And What It Means For The United States by Ross Terrill

Daoism:

• Japanese Culture: The Religious and Philosophical Foundations by Roger J. Davies

Stoicism:

• A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by William B. Irvine

Egyptian:

• Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff

Greece:

Olympian Gods: (See Also Roman Empire)

• Greek Mythology: Captivating Stories of the Ancient Olympians and Titans by Ross Tanner
• Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes by Edith Hamilton

Philosophy:

• The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl Popper

Stoicism:

• A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by William B. Irvine

Fiction

• Circe by Madeline Miller
• Elektra by Jennifer Saint

Mesopotamian:

• Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization by Paul Kriwaczek

Mongolia (Tengri):

• The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World by Marie Favereau

Roman Empire:

• SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard

Olympian Gods: (See Also Greece)

• Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes by Edith Hamilton

Stoicism:

• A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by William B. Irvine
• (Circa 2nd Century C.E.) Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

Shinto:

• Japanese Culture: The Religious and Philosophical Foundations by Roger J. Davies

Viking:

• Norse Mythology: Gods, Heroes and the Nine Worlds of Norse Mythology by Stephan Weaver
• The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire by Tore Skeie