Ranked: What Is The Power Of Belief Systems?

This is a subjective Ranked version of Intriguing Connections: What Is The Power Of Belief Systems?

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

Application Of Belief Systems:

1. A Philosophy of Evil by Lars Svendsen
2. War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges
3. Man's Search For Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
4. A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles by Thomas Sowell
5. The Lessons of History by Will Durant, Ariel Durant
6. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
7. Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America by John McWhorter
8. A Treatise on Efficacy: Between Western and Chinese Thinking by François Jullien
9. The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World by Charles C. Mann
10. Theory and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science by Peter Godfrey-Smith
11. The Girl at the Baggage Claim: Explaining the East-West Culture Gap by Gish Jen
12. The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl Popper
13. Confidence Games: Money and Markets in a World without Redemption by Mark C. Taylor

Fiction:

1. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
2. The Renegade, or A Confused Mind by Albert Camus (Exile and the Kingdom)

Various:

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

Critique:

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

Abrahamic:

1. The Evolution of God by Robert Wright

Christianity:

1. How the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill
2. Inquisition by Edward Peters
3. The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire by Tore Skeie
4. Empire: How Spain Became a World Power, 1492-1763 by Henry Kamen
5. When Women Ruled The World by Maureen Quilligan
6. Civilization: The West and the Rest by Niall Ferguson

Christianity / Critique:

1. On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
2. The Dream of Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Philosophy by Anthony Gottlieb
3. 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
4. The Island at the Center of the World by Russell Shorto

Christianity / Fiction:

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

Islam:

1. The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror by Bernard Lewis
2. Islam: A Short History by Karen Armstrong
3. The Golden Age of Islam by Maurice Lombard
4. A History of Medieval Islam by J.J. Saunders
5. The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World by Marie Favereau

Judaism:

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

United States of America:

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

Aztecs:

1. Aztecs: A History From Beginning to End by Henry Freeman

Buddhism:

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

Zen:

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

Confucianism:

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

Daoism:

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

Stoicism:

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

Egyptian:

1. Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff

Greece:

Olympian Gods: (See Also Roman Empire)

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

Philosophy:

1. The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl Popper

Stoicism:

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

Fiction:

1. Circe by Madeline Miller
2. Elektra by Jennifer Saint

Mesopotamian:

1. Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization by Paul Kriwaczek

Mongolia (Tengri):

1. The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World by Marie Favereau

Roman Empire:

1. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard

Olympian Gods: (See Also Greece)

1. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes by Edith Hamilton

Stoicism:

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

Shinto:

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

Viking:

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