Demonstrates the fertility of the phenomenological tradition of philosophy for intergenerational justice and climate ethics.

Examines Kṛṣṇa’s hint of laughter (prahasann iva) in the Bhagavadgītā, its interpretations in the Vedānta commentarial tradition, and its significance in Kṛṣṇaite iconography and literature.

Examines the intersections of gender, religion, and politics among various Indian religious communities, from early British rule to the late twentieth century.

Accessible and wide-ranging essays on the philosophy of religion.

Intriguing unpublished manuscripts by Leo Strauss, which explore the intricate relationship between religion, philosophy, and politics, accompanied by fourteen interpretative essays.

Combines historical, literary, art historical, and archaeological perspectives to explore the idea of the Hindu temple in the British colonial imagination.

Aims to rethink ethics and transcendence in light of the phenomenology of empathy and social ontology.

Situates yoga practice within a musical context in the life and work of famed violinist Yehudi Menuhin

Examines questions of cosmos, society, and self through the metaphors and language of ancient Chinese texts and artifacts.

Collects and interprets the literary legacy of Nūrī, an early Sufi master known for his ecstatic behaviour, eccentric acts, and passionate poems of mystical love.

A groundbreaking study of Farid al-Din ʿAṭṭār, one of Persian literature's greatest poets.

Presents an iconoclastic account of morality and moral discourse from the perspective of Daoist philosophy.

Explores the Sāṃkhya system and the delicate relationship it articulates between witness consciousness (Puruṣa) and manifest realities (Prakṛti), providing a path to freedom through knowledge.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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