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Books like God is red
A rigorous, philosophical challenge to Western religious paradigms that illuminates the enduring tenets of Native American spirituality. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with God is red.
- contemplative
- challenging
- intellectual
- 01
Neither wolf nor dog
Kent Nerburn · 1994
A quiet, transformative road trip through the Dakotas that asks you to stop talking and finally listen.
- 02
Native Science
Gregory Cajete
A profound and grounding exploration of reality that bridges the physical and the spiritual through the lens of Indigenous wisdom.
- 03
Black Elk speaks
John G. Neihardt · 1961
A visionary and elegiac oral history that immerses the reader in the spiritual depth and tragic twilight of the traditional Lakota way of life.
- 04
Columbus and Other Cannibals
Jack D. Forbes · 1992
A radical, paradigm-shifting diagnosis of the spiritual sickness driving Western imperialism and ecological collapse.
- 05
Reservation blues
Sherman Alexie
A painful, humorous, and mythic symphony of rock and roll, cultural survival, and redemption.
- 06
Beyond God the Father
Mary Daly · 1974
A fiery, paradigm-shifting philosophical text that dismantles patriarchal language and theology to forge a new spiritual consciousness.
- 07
Ten Little Indians
Sherman Alexie
A tragicomic and deeply empathetic exploration of urban lives caught between history and the modern world.
- 08
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz
An unflinching, paradigm-shifting history that shatters national myths to reveal the foundational violence and enduring resistance at the heart of the American story.
- 09
Conversations with God
Neale Donald Walsch
An intimate, paradigm-shifting dialogue that reimagines the divine as an accessible, loving friend rather than a distant judge.
- 10
When God Was a Woman
Merlin Stone
A paradigm-shifting archaeological journey that unearths the suppressed history of the divine feminine and the origins of patriarchal myth.
- 11
Indian Givers
Jack Weatherford
A paradigm-shifting journey that completely rewrites the origin story of the modern world.
- 12
Cows, pigs, wars, & witches
Marvin Harris · 1974
A provocative, paradigm-shifting journey that strips away the mystique of human behavior to reveal the cold, fascinating logic beneath.
