A collection of approximately 95 books on Religion and Theology from the Library of Marlon Brando, some with portions of the text underlined or with notes in the margin in Brando’s hand, titles include:

ABDULLAH, Allama Sir, and AL-SUHRAWARDY, Al-Mamun, The Sayings of Muhammad, London: 1954;

PICKTHALL, Mohammed Maramduke, The Meaning of The Glorious Koran; SMITH, Homer, Man and His Gods, New York: 1957;

The Book of Morman, Utah: 1973; GRAHAM, Billy, Peace With God, New York: 1953;
Teachings of Compassionate Buddha … Sayings of Muhammad:

RAGLAN, Lord, The Origins of Religion, London: 1949. For a complete list of titles, please contact the department.

Regarding Road to the Center by Toru Egawa:
According to scholar Avery Morrow, “This is a fascinating document to own in terms of the history of Japanese religions. This tract doesn’t get any English Google hits. When you search for the kanji in Japanese the top result is a news story reporting that the daughter of the sect’s leader Reiju Tsubaki made a marriage proposal to Marlon Brando. So in fact this tract may have been translated and printed specifically for Brando and you may have just acquired one of the only copies ever made and the only one to leave Japan.”

Taishin Kyokai (大真協会) was a Shinto-style new religion. In the early 1970s the founder was able to sneak past the famously protective Imperial Household Agency and perform faith healing on Empress Kōjun. It also counted among its believers the novelist Yasunari Kawabata, the poet Byakuren Yanagiwara, Akutagawa prize winner Ryōichi Tsuji, early female Diet member Sonoda Tenkōkō, and the wives of PMs Hatoyama and Satō. Although the founder correctly identified Brando’s interest in world religion and traditional philosophy (evidenced by the rest of James’ purchase), it seems this carefully targeted tract did not appeal to him.”