Honor roll: National Book Award for Philosophy and Religion
Each of these books has been nominated for a National Book Award for Philosophy and Religion. They are ranked by honors received.
Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence
In this acclaimed study of Mahatma Gandhi, the renowned psychoanalyst Erik H. Erikson explores how Gandhi succeeded in mobilizing the Indian people both spiritually and politically, as he became the revolutionary innovator of militant nonviolence and India the motherland of large-scale civil disobedience.
Anarchy, State and Utopia
- 1975 NBA–Philosophy winner
- Score: 10.25
In this brilliant and widely acclaimed book, winner of the 1975 National Book Award, Robert Nozick challenges the most commonly held political and social positions oaf our age—liberal, socialist, and conservative.
Edmund Husserl: Philosopher of Infinite Tasks
- 1974 NBA–Philosophy winner
- Score: 10.24
A Religious History of the American People
- 1973 NBA–Philosophy winner
- Score: 10.23
This classic work, winner of the 1973 National Book Award in Philosophy and Religion and Christian Century’s choice as the Religious Book of the Decade (1979), is now issued with a new Foreword and concluding chapter by noted religious historian David D. Hall, who carries the story of American religious history forward to the present day.
Righteous Empire: The Protestant Experience in America
- 1972 NBA–Philosophy winner
- Score: 10.22



