Free Religion & Spirituality Books Online

Introduction

This is a listing of sites that legally offer free books on Religion & Spirituality, for reading and listening (audio).

All of these sites listed have content that is legal for them to distribute.  If you find that any site listed is offering content that can not be legally transferred, please let me know in the comments below. 

Also, I would appreciate it if you would post comments about any sites that you like or do not like so that information can be added to the site's listing here.  This would help new users to decide which sites to try.

This list is not comprehensive and if you know of any other sites please post in the comments below or at our forums. 

A comprehensive alphabetical listing of free books for reading or listening can be found on these pages:

• 100+ Places For Free Books Online

• Free Audio Books Online

There will be other books on Religion & Spirituality at the sites listed there, but they are not categorized at the sites.  There are also links to other genre pages at those sites.

Libraries are also an excellent source for reading and listening materials for children.  To find out more information on your local library, the links here may help:  Library Information

There are 13 other book  pages here at Gizmo's covering other various popular book genres and offering links to free online books listed here:  Book Genre Pages

Religion & Spirituality

2020k (Religion&Spirituality) Large collection, divided into categories and sub-categories for download in a variety of formats.

Arthur's Classic Novels (Bible)(Christian Writings)(Jewish History) (Prophets) (Koran)  (Islam)  (Islam History) Good collection, different versions of the Christian bible as well as books regarding the bible and various christian and Jewish writings available for online viewing,  Also sections on Islam and the Koran.

BookYards (Religion&Spirituality) Around 700 books available for download in pdf

Bored.com (Religion) has 1013 books from atheism to Zoroastrian, most are on Christianity available for online viewing.  Separated into categories and sub-categories.

ChestofBooks (Religion) 5 books available for online viewing

DivineLifeSociety Several hundred books and a large number of writings on Yoga, region and philosophy available for online viewing or pdf download.

eBook.com (Sacred texts&Religion) a great deal of links to books and works on world religions, past and present.

FreeBookSpot (Christianity)(Hinduism)(Islam)(Religion) Between these four categories there are about 75 books available for pdf download

FreeeBooks.net (Religious) 70 books available for download in varying formats

FreeOnlineChristianBooks several hundred books available for online viewing

Globusz (Religion) 7 books available for download or online viewing

GoogleBookSearch (Religion) 684 books available for online viewing

Gutenberg (Religion) Large collection in categories and sub-categories available for download in a variety of formats

Heygidday (Religion) 10 books available for download in pdf (zipped)

Internet Sacred Text Archive very interesting and large collection of books on religion, mythology, folklore and the esoteric available for online viewing.

Islaam Pure & Clear around 50 Islamic books for reading or download

ManyBooks (Religion) 1200 books available for download in a variety of formats

MemoWare (Religion) 1992 works available for download in varying formats

Munsey's (Religion) 824 novels available for download in a large variety of formats

OnlineBooks4Free (Religion) over a thousand books available for online viewing or download

OnlineBooksPage (Religion) Links to a large number of works some for online viewing and others in varying download formats

Online Library of Liberty (Religion) Over 200 classical novels on religion available for online viewing or download in pdf or ebookk pdf.

Qvadis (Religion) 973 works available for download in doc format

Religion-Online over 6,000 works on religion and society available for online viewing

Wowio (Religion&Spirituality) 108 books available for online viewing

Religion & Spirituality (audio)

AudioBooksForFree has 21 free audio books for download in MP3.  The free downloads are in low quality (8kbps) and registration is required.

BooksShouldBeFree has 16 audio books available for free download in very good quality MP3 or as text for reading.

ChristianClassicsEtherealLibrary has 35 audio books of classic Christian writers, including Chesterton, Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, available for download in good quality MP3 (24kbps).

CommonSenseAtheism offers 70+ free audio books and lectures on religion.  Most of them are from Librivox, but there are a few that are not and it is a nice listing of religious themed works.

FreeAudioBooks1 has a small, but interesting, collection of audio books available for download in MP3 or Ogg.  Most all deal with religious themes.

FreeChristianAudioBooks has a small collection of Christian audio books for free download in WMA, MP3 or AAC.  Most of these works are not available elsewhere.

LearnOutLoud has 226 free audio books under Religion & Spirituality.  They are available in different ways, including online listening, MP3 or MP4 as many link to other sites.

LibriVox has 168 free audio books on Religion available for download in MP3 (64kb/128kb) or ogg vorbis.  All are human read.

MariaLectrix is a site that is primarily known for its books catering to a Catholic readership. However they also have some interesting works that are not religious oriented, particularly in Science Fiction, Fantasy and Mystery categories.  For listening online.

PodioBooks has 6 free audio books under their Spirituality category available for download in very good quality MP3.  These were originally released as podcasts (and still are) but most are completed.  This collection will not be found elsewhere. 

TruthForTheEndOfTime offers a good number of Christian audio books for streaming or download in MP3 (128kb).