The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Edward Gibbon · Enlightenment · History
Subject guide
Religion
Explore 30 works associated with Religion in The Western Canon. This page is generated from reviewed catalog classifications and links directly to each featured work.
Featured works
The Principles of Psychology
William James · Modern · Philosophy / psychology
On the Nature of Things
Lucretius · Ancient · Philosophical poetry
The Golden Ass
Apuleius · Ancient · Novel
The Decisive Treatise
Averroes · Medieval · Philosophy
The Incoherence of the Incoherence
Averroes · Medieval · Philosophy
The Praise of Folly
Desiderius Erasmus · Renaissance · Satire
A Tale of a Tub
Jonathan Swift · Enlightenment · Satire / essays
The Battle of the Books
Jonathan Swift · Enlightenment · Satire / essays
A Modest Proposal
Jonathan Swift · Enlightenment · Satire / essays
Laocoön
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing · Enlightenment · Drama / criticism
Nathan the Wise
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing · Enlightenment · Drama / criticism
The Monk
Matthew Lewis · Romantic · Gothic novel
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe · 19th Century · Novel
The Division of Labor in Society
Émile Durkheim · Modern · Sociology
Suicide
Émile Durkheim · Modern · Sociology
The Varieties of Religious Experience
William James · Modern · Philosophy / psychology
Pragmatism
William James · Modern · Philosophy / psychology
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
Émile Durkheim · Modern · Sociology
Psychological Types
Carl Jung · Modern · Psychology
Modern Man in Search of a Soul
Carl Jung · Modern · Psychology
A Handful of Dust
Evelyn Waugh · Modern · Novel / satire
Scoop
Evelyn Waugh · Modern · Novel / satire
Brideshead Revisited
Evelyn Waugh · Modern · Novel / satire
The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
Carl Jung · Modern · Psychology
Rabbit, Run
John Updike · Postwar · Novel / stories
Dune
Frank Herbert · Postwar · Science fiction
Rabbit Redux
John Updike · Postwar · Novel / stories
Rabbit Is Rich
John Updike · Postwar · Novel / stories
The Witches of Eastwick
John Updike · Postwar · Novel / stories