Armstrong, Karen, The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions (London & New York, 2006). Книга об «осевом времени». Уделяет особое внимание возникновению сострадания и ненасилия.
Armstrong, Karen, A Short History of Myth (Edinburgh & New York, 2005).
Belkin, Samuel, In His Image: The Jewish Philosophy of Man as Expressed in Rabbinic Tradition (London, 1960).
Benedict, Michael, God is the Good We Do: Theology of Theopraxy (New York, 2007).
Buckman, Robert, Can We Be Good Without God? (New York, 2002).
Campbell, Joseph (with Bill Moyers), The Power of Myth (New York, 1988). Доступно также на видео.
Eisenstadt, S.N., The Origins and Diversity of Axial Age Civilizations (Albany, 1986).
Fingarette, Herbert, Confucius: The Secular as Sacred (New York, 1972).
Furnish, Victor Paul, The Love Command in the New Testament (Nashville & New York, 1972).
Girard, René, Violence and the Sacred , trans. Patrick Gregory (Baltimore, MD, 1977).
Holloway, Richard, Godless Morality: Keeping Religion out of Ethics (Edinburgh, 1999).
Jaspers, Karl, The Great Philosophers: The Foundations , ed. Hannah Arendt, trans. Ralph Mannheim (London, 1962). Современная классика. Состоит из четырех замечательных очерков о Будде, Конфуции, Сократе и Иисусе.
Jaspers, Karl, The Origin and Goal of History , trans. Michael Bullock (London, 1953). С этой книги берет начало понятие «осевого времени».
Nasr, Seyyed Hossein, The Garden of Truth: The Vision and Promise of Sufism, Islam’s Mystical Tradition (San Francisco, 2007).
Outka, Gene, Agape: An Ethical Analysis (New Haven, 1972).
Perkins, Pheme, Love Commands in the New Testament (New York, 1982).
Ramadan, Tariq, The Quest for Meaning: Developing a Philosophy of Pluralism (London, 2010).
Schottroff, Luise, Essays on the Love Commandment , trans. Reginald H. & Ilse Fuller (Philadelphia, 1978).
Sviri, Sara, The Taste of Hidden Things (Inverness, CA, 1997).
Tillich, Paul, Love, Power and Justice (New York & Oxford, 1963).
Tu Wei Ming, Confucian Thought: Selfhood a Creative Transformation (Albany, 1985).
Vorspan, Albert & David Saperstein,
Jewish Dimensions of Social Justice: Tough Moral Choices of Our Time (New York, 1998).
(2) Эти книги рассказывают о том, как практиковать сострадательный образ жизни.