Explores the music of the Tibetan Chöd tradition.

A comprehensive treatment of the shared traditions of Chan, Sŏn, and Zen in dynamic interaction across East Asia, acknowledging the changing and growing parameters of the field of Zen studies.

Essays providing a multi-disciplinary look at Derrick Bell's thesis of racial realism.

Maps manifestations of the sacred and religious syncretism in Afro-Brazilian cultural forms.

Original and critical essays by leading scholars on the question of the human in the philosophy of Martin Heidegger.

Presents the most important portrayals of the Daoist master Yang Zhu throughout Chinese history, from the Warring States period until today.

Drawing on a range of sources in philosophy and literature, but with particular reference to the work of Heidegger, makes a compelling case for the importance of place in philosophical discourse.

Examines the place of history in the political thought of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, one of the key architects of modern Hindu nationalism.

Explores the basic forms of responsibility that we willingly assume and the collaborative fulfillment that we find in each.

Endorses the pursuit of paradigm shifts in our understandings of faith, truth, and nature to remedy the "underside" of modernity and thus to inaugurate a post-modern (but not anti-modern) and post-secular (but not anti-secular) view of the world.

Presents a novel interpretation of Schelling's philosophy by way of his reading and critique of Spinoza.

Aims to construct an economic philosophy from indigenous African thought.

Traces the Trump administration's surprising support for LGBTI human rights abroad to Trump's indifference and the cynicism and political interests of Christian conservative elites.

Examines the relationship of evil, action, and judgment in the work of Immanuel Kant, Hannah Arendt, and Jean-François Lyotard.

Analyzes how White American mainline Protestants used the internal musical controversies of the turn-of-the-millennium Worship Wars to negotiate their shifting position within the nation's diversifying religious and sociopolitical ecosystems.

Challenges and reimagines transnational feminism by analyzing the concept of ummah, or community, in Muslim women's writing.

Analyzes the relationship between the Palestinian Authority and Hamas since 2007, a period of time that has been marked by the parties' continual failure to end political disagreements and formulate a common national vision.

Chronicles the astonishing and counterintuitive spread of Christianity among a group of previously isolated tribes in a remote and hilly part of Northeastern India.

Explores how concepts of sex in heaven can inform Christian sexual ethics in ways that challenge traditional norms and open new possibilities.

Nine masterful essays on Dante’s Divine Comedy and his political theology by one of today’s leading Italian philosophers.

A comprehensive, concise, and easy-to-read introduction intended for undergraduates and general readers interested in the study of mysticism.

Examines the thought of Abū al-‛Alā’ al-Ma‛arrī (973–1057 CE) within the broader context of the major trends in Arab Islamic political and intellectual history by the time of his flourishing.

Argues that the path to the good life does not consist in working toward some abstract concept of the good, but rather by ameliorating the problems of the practices and institutions that make up our practical life.

Documents how the premodern techniques of narrating the past in South Asia were deeply transformed by colonial modernity, resulting in newer forms of truth-telling within the Sikh community.

Explains why Turkey embraced the Arab Spring despite the risk both domestically and internationally.

An up-to-date examination of the work of one of the most inventive thinkers in the study of religion.

Explores the rich diversity of narratives, rituals, and participants connected with one of the most important celebrations for Hindus in South Asia and in the diaspora.

Explores distinctions between the sacred and the secular in a variety of religious traditions, and proposes ways in which their relationship can be mutually beneficial.

Offers an immanent critique of Levinas’s core philosophical proposals by reference to his allegedly eurocentric statements.

Explores how a folk ballad in southern India transforms the landscape and embeds the deities that are its subject within the social worlds of their devotees.

The first book-length examination of the prominent contemporary philosopher William Desmond's approach to aesthetics, art, and literature.

An original reading of Blanchot's thought with far-reaching philosophical and literary implications.

The ancient concept of spontaneous self-causation (ziran) from Daoism opens a path to understanding human action as self-organizing, attention as effortless, and art as somatic.

A unique, firsthand account of working with a spiritual master in the midst of "ordinary" life.

Rejects Hindu nationalism and pluralist secularism in favor of a revitalized politics of Indian federalism.

Develops a creative and provocative new model of God that brings together insights from both process theology and ground-of-being theology.

A major contribution to the study of South Asian literature, offering a landmark view of Mahābhārata studies.

An original and innovative exploration of Antigone, femininity, and love in various cosmological, philosophical, and theological contexts.

A cross-case analysis of fifteen faith communities striving to care for the earth and live more sustainably.

An in-depth, ethnographic study of the transnational expansion of Santo Daime, a mystical religious tradition organized around sacramental ingestion of the mind-altering ayahuasca beverage.

Brings early Daoist writings into conversation with contemporary contemplative studies.

Evaluates religious naturalists’ attempts to find a middle path between supernaturalism and atheistic secularism, and explores naturalistic, theistic, and panpsychist solutions.

A critical introduction to the American philosopher D. G. Leahy (1937–2014), whose oeuvre sets forth a fundamental thinking in which change itself is revealed to be the very essence of reality and mind.

Explores key questions about translations and translators of South Asian Buddhist texts, past and present.

Offers a comparative and deconstructive reading of the cross-cultural encounter between the Jesuits and their Confucian hosts in late Ming China.

Offers the Islamic concept of ummah as an alternative to the nation-state.

Examines the key role of a hagiographer within a charismatic religious movement.

A close study of one of the most prolific commentary writers in Islamic history.

Building on Jean-Luc Marion’s phenomenology of love this book takes up the “question of the Other” and argues that through the interpretive activities of the amorous imagination lovers come to experience one another as the Beloved.

Examines representations of religion in Mexican film from the Golden Age to the early twenty-first century.

Examines the relationship between Mughal political culture and the two dominant strains of Islam's Sufi traditions in South Asia: one centered around orthodoxy, the other focusing on a more accommodating and mystical spirituality.

Third- and fourth-wave feminists write about their experiences with Catholicism and their visions for the future of women in the Church.

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

Investigates the professional practices of astrologers in urban India and their popularity among the educated middle and upper classes.

A systematic analysis of the myth cycle of Paraśurāma (“Rāma with the Axe”), an avatára of Viṣṇu with a much darker reputation.

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

Argues that the role of Buddhism in modern Japanese prose literature has been significantly overlooked.

Offers a new approach to Theosophy that takes into account its global dimensions and its interaction with highly diverse cultural contexts.

Investigates how the Thai poet Angkarn Kallayanapong adapts Buddhist concepts of time to create a modern Asian aesthetic imaginary.

Offers practical and personal ways to help mitigate global climate change while sustaining an emotional and spiritual center through mindfulness practice.

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.

Draws on philosophy, economics, theology, and psychoanalytic theory to reveal a fundamental dynamic of capitalism.

Broadens the parameters of religious studies by accounting for material acts that help shape religious worlds.

Examines the role that images of Palestine played in the construction of prewar Jewish American identity.

Offers an in-depth exposition of the Confucian conception of persons as the starting point of Confucian ethics.

Examines how Black women elders have managed stress, emphasizing how self-care practices have been present since at least the mid-nineteenth century, with roots in African traditions.

A comprehensive and theory-rich investigation of the history and philosophy of yoga, from its Indian origins to the contemporary context.

A provocative study of opposition to anti-Semitism in contemporary political philosophy.

Investigates Turkey and Israel's contrasting treatment of religion and demonstrates how this treatment has had a significant impact on these countries' democratic performance.

Explores the relationship between literature and philosophy in classical and contemporary Buddhist texts.

The first book to offer a detailed framework, a fine-grained history, and an analytically nuanced understanding of one of the rarest branches of Hindu worship.

Demonstrates the impact of print culture on the spread of Jewish mysticism, focusing on Kabbalistic study guides by R. Yissakhar Baer of seventeenth-century Prague.

Sets out the challenges presented to Muslim societies by Western dominance over the past two hundred years, and explores Muslim responses, particularly in the context of South Asia.

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

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

Explores the possibilities and challenges of Asian immigrant Christian leadership in the United States.

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

Situates Schmitt's legal scholarship in the context of debates regarding whether his thought was more theological or technocratic.

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

Evocative, innovative ethnography of spiritual practices and forms of queer, black, and indigenous life in the Dominican Republic.

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

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

An interdisciplinary dialogue with Shūsaku Endō’s last novel offering new perspectives on Japanese culture, Christian doctrine, Hindu spiritualities, and Buddhist worldviews.

Examines theological motifs in the work of Jan Patočka, drawing out their implications for contemporary theology and philosophy of religion.

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

The gripping memoir of a young man’s struggle with his sexuality and Muslim identity, culminating in his rise to the Dutch Parliament.

Recollections and reflections that introduce the reader to the equivalent of the practice of the presence of God.

Inspiring collection narrating how peace activists found their calling and why the world still needs peace activism.

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.

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

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

Major new translation of a unique and important Persian treatise on divine names in the Islamic tradition.

Provides the first systematic interpretation of Heidegger’s relation to Eckhart, centering on the idea that we must release ourselves in order to know the truth.

Identifies and traces the evolution of a forgotten “realist” tradition in medieval Islamic political thought, and considers the prospects for its revival in the context of the contemporary Middle East.

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

Explains the Hindi novel’s role in anticipating and creating the story of middle-class modernity and modernization in North India.

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.

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

Presents a new vision of the Buddhist history and philosophy of emptiness in Tibet.

A distillation of the historian’s finest writings on modern Indian historical themes.