The first in-depth study of the All World Gayatri Pariwar, a modern Indian religious movement.

Demonstrates how conflict between a human adept as the divine warrior and an otherworldly antagonist plays a key role in early Jewish and Christian apocalyptic accounts.

Shows that pragmatic historicism is a significant intellectual tradition in the history of American religious and philosophical thought.

Explores the interplay of religion and food in Native American cultures.

Situates a Hasidic master in the context of his time, demonstrating his formative influence on Jewish literary modernity.

Emphasizes the importance of metaphysical necessity to both philosophical theology and, through it, to moral and political theory.

Participant-observation-based studies that explore a range of Sufi movements operating across the contemporary American religious landscape.

Argues for an important transformation in the construction of the self among Japanese converts to Roman Catholicism.

Studies the original vocabulary of Frithjof Schuon, its relevance to comparative religion, and the status of metaphysical and theological terms in religion.

The story of a nineteenth-century New Yorker’s struggle to reconcile his same-sex erotic desires with his commitment to a Christian life.

Combines powerful first-person accounts with incisive scholarly analysis to understand the phenomenon of ultra-Orthodox Jews who leave their insular communities and venture into the wider world.

Presents a historical and philosophical overview of the twentieth-century German debates on secularization and their significance for contemporary discussions about the relationship between theology and modernity.

Demonstrates that Rabbi Shneur Zalman's teachings regarding time and history enabled Habad's growth into a mass Jewish movement.

Examines four discourses by Kierkegaard, arguing that they play a critical and surprising role in his oeuvre and contribute to the philosophy of figural language.

Traces the development of bal tashḥit, the Jewish prohibition against wastefulness and destruction, from its biblical origins to the contemporary environmental movement.

An accessible introduction to the centrality of word, chant, and song in the Hindu, Buddhist, Islamic, and Sikh traditions.

An in-depth look at Elie Wiesel’s writings, from his earliest works to his final novels.

A psychological study, based on extensive interview data, of Jewish adults who take on a devout lifestyle.

Examines the role of plants in botanical mythology, from Aboriginal Australia to Zoroastrian Persia.

A rich collection of essays about the inner, shared experiences of participants engaged in second-person approaches to contemplative practice.

Analyzes the breadth of representations of the mythic figure of Māra in Buddhism to reveal how closely tied such narratives are to the social and historical concerns of Buddhist communities.

Examines the impact of Persian poetry in the work of Ralph Waldo Emerson.

A multidisciplinary approach to the study of veganism, vegetarianism, and meat avoidance among Jews, both historical and contemporary.

A unique historical study of the personal nature of religion, spirituality, and healing in the twentieth century based on the letters of ordinary people from around the world.

Explores the contemporary nature and the diverse narratives, rituals, and performances of the Navarātri Festival.