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

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

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

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

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

Offers an Asian immigrant perspective on US racial relations and explores the unique situations and challenges facing Asian immigrants in the United States.

The first book-length study of Leo Strauss' understanding of the relation between modern democracy, technology, and liberal education.

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

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 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.

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

An introduction to ancient Chinese ideas on how to live a good life.

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

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

Reconsiders the legacy of an important Hasidic mystic, leader, and educator who confronted the dilemmas of modernity after World War I and whose writing constitutes a unique testimony to religious experience and its rupture in the Warsaw Ghetto.

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

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

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

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

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.

Brings early Daoist writings into conversation with contemporary contemplative studies.

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

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

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

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