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6. ''[https://www.amazon.com/Divided-Faith-Religious-Conflict-Toleration/dp/0674034732/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1509167568&sr=1-1&keywords=Divided+by+Faith%3A+Religious+Conflict+and+the+Practice+of+Toleration+in+Early-Modern+Europe%27%27+by+Benjamin+Kaplan Divided by Faith: Religious Conflict and the Practice of Toleration in Early-Modern Europe'' by Benjamin Kaplan] – This work asks a very basic question: After the Protestant Reformation of ~1517 brought into question most of Europe’s (Catholic) religious beliefs, how did people of different/evolving faiths coexist? The answer is: not well. Kaplan's work is, at once, fascinating and all-encompassing.
7. '''Victorian Infidels'' by Edward Royle -- Royle’s work examines the beginning of secularism, outside the context of class and political boundaries. Before Royle, most British historians considered atheism/agnosticism to be products of working-class distrust of the State. This work changed all that, and it is perhaps one of the most important books on the beginnings of secularism ever published.
