Argues that ancient yantra (robot) tales reveal how their Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain authors thought about the nature of humanity and our role in a cosmos filled with divine and natural forces.

Illuminating new essays on Fichte's 1804 Wissenschaftslehre, or The Science of Knowing.

Explores the music of the Tibetan Chöd tradition.

Illuminates the cross-border migration and settlement of Catholics from Canada to northern New York.

A groundbreaking study of jinn doppelgangers and the problem of evil in Akbarian Sufism.

Explores the cultural dynamics of this ancient form of Sanskrit theater.

Uses the intellectual encounter between Islam and modernity to explore the nature of culture, civilization, religion, and tradition.

Draws on Guo Xiang's commentary on the Zhuangzi to construct an account of freedom that is both metaphysical and political.

A history of the world’s mystical traditions.

Challenges readers to use utopian thinking and practice to counter the conditions of the present and create an alternative future.

Offers an innovative analysis of gates—as architectural components, visual images, and mental constructs—in early Chinese thought and material culture.

Offers a new, interreligious approach to questions of mission and conversion, grounded in a close study of the Chinmaya Mission, Ramakrishna Mission and other movements associated with the Hindu tradition of Advaita Vedānta.

Draws on indigenous African political thought in order to construct a political philosophy that will resist and restrain necropolitics and promote human flourishing in Africa.

Shows how Engaged Buddhists can expand their understanding of the causes of collective suffering and develop nonviolent means for social transformation through a dialectic of love, power, and justice.