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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

A Levinasian commentary on the Torah.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Explores the role of meditation on the five elements in the practice of Yoga.

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.

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.

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

Investigates the cosmological and metaphysical thought in the Zhuangzi from the perspective of nothingness.

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

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

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.

Bridges Western and non-Western political thought to address the problem of democracy and political decadance in contemporary Iran and, by implication, similar Islamic societies.

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

A highly personal meditation on the nature and meaning of suffering.

Provides firsthand perspectives from yoga practitioners and educators on the promises and challenges of school-based yoga programs.

A guide to Buddhism’s rich variety of traditions and cultural expressions for educators who would like to include Buddhism in their undergraduate courses.

The first comprehensive treatment of Inoue Enryō, a pioneer of modern Buddhism and a key figure in the reception of Western philosophy in East Asia.

Traces the genealogy of the Western philosophic concept of the civil state, how that concept was assimilated into Egyptian political thought, and how it affected the 2013 coup against President Mursi.

Provides a new perspective on important linguistic issues in philosophical and religious Daoism through the comparative lens of twentieth-century European philosophies of language.

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

Offers a new perspective on the relationship between religion and the creation of the first Chinese empires.

A transdisciplinary approach to reconciliation practices and policies by an international team of scholars and scholar-practitioners.

Offers a new phenomenological method for biblical interpretation that opens up the possibility of an absolute science of scripture.

Discusses the complexities and paradoxes of love as represented in the history of Western philosophy and Christianity.

Štofaník provides a unique, personal reading of weak theology and tries to inhabit the gap between it and its “founder,” John D. Caputo.

Uses cultural representations to investigate how two religious minority communities came to be incorporated into the Mexican nation.

A meditation on how religious language tries to limn the liminal, conceive the inconceivable, speak the unspeakable, and say the unsayable.

Adds new voices to the feminist conversation and brings a rich variety of diverse approaches to Buddhist women’s identities, “the feminine,” and Buddhist feminism.

Argues that Jewish writers used depictions of Jews as animals to question prevalent notions of Jewish identity.

A study of Ghazali’s ethical thought as shown in his extensive treatment of the virtues and their relation to the ends of life and to each other.

This volume brings social and cultural anthropologists into dialogue with historical sociology and illustrates the continued potential of the concept of civilization for all participants.

Argues that Holocaust representation has ethical implications fundamentally linked to questions of good and evil.

Provides a new orientation to philosophy of religion and a new theory of how religion ought to be defined.

Argues that Socrates’ fundamental role in the dialogues is to guide us toward self-inquiry and self-knowledge.

Offers a critical Pentecostal philosophy of God that challenges orthodox Christianity.

Delineates the knowable from the unknowable in philosophy, science, and theology.

Explores how the emotional experience of gratitude has been enlisted in neoliberal governance through the language of debt.

Challenges the monolithic view of Hinduism in the nineteenth century, and instead offers a vision of India that contains a rich multiplicity of Hinduisms, women’s stories, and cultural histories.

Complete collection of Schwarzschild’s essays on the neo-Kantian Jewish philosopher Hermann Cohen.

The first major study of the idea of repentance, or tawba, in Islam.

Attempts to think anew about philosophical questions from the perspective of breath and breathing.

Challenges prevailing conceptions of what religious ritual does and how it achieves its ends.

Explores the place and meaning of philosophy of religion in our current poststructuralist, postsecular, postcolonialist context.

Explores a growing number of films and filmmakers that challenge the strict boundaries between belief and unbelief.

Captures how Indian Protestant Christians negotiate their religious and cultural identities within the Indian diaspora.

Presents a new window into the literary, philosophical, and theological concerns of this enigmatic thinker and writer.

Examines key theoretical aspects of the emerging field of second-person contemplative education.

The first comprehensive anthropological description of the Khmer Buddhism practiced by Cambodian refugees in the United States over the past four decades.

A wide-ranging analysis of heavenly twin imagery in early Jewish extrabiblical texts.

First English translations of a novel and two play excerpts based on tales of the goddess Chen Jinggu, an eighth-century shaman and present-day cult deity.

Explores the relationship between revelation and reason in medieval Islamic intellectual history.

Examines religious communities as advocates of environmental stewardship and sustainable agriculture practices.

Offers a profound vision of the Christian epic as the site of the modern apocalyptic reenactment of the original apocalypse.

Explores the significance of Indian control spirits as a dominating force in nineteenth-century American Spiritualism.

An investigation of the spiritual encounter between a twentieth-century Dominican friar and an eleventh-century Afghani Sufi master.

Restores the Platonic history and context of mysticism and shows how mysticism helps us understand more deeply the humanities as a whole, from philosophy and literature to art.

Demonstrates how students and educators can resist narrow, utilitarian views of higher education’s purpose.

A study of comparative metaphysics that explores the concepts of Reality and Appearance and their relevance to contemporary religious consciousness.

Explores language and mysticism, Buddhism and Zen, Christianity, comparative religion, psychedelics, and psychology and psychotherapy.

Provides a rhetorical analysis of female spirit medium's autobiographies in the historical and social contexts of Victorian era America.

Challenges the conventional view of a “disenchanted” and secular modernity, and recovers the complex relation that exists between science, religion, and esotericism in the modern world.

A comprehensive study of Lessing’s religious thought.

First work to address the legacy of Wilfred Cantwell Smith and his influence on the development of religious studies and Islamic studies in the twentieth century.

Analyzes the place of beauty in the Sufi understanding of God, the world, and the human being through the writings of Sufi scholar and saint Rūzbihān Baqlī.

Offers a novel exploration of the relationship between religion and the state in Israel.

Examines various Tibetan interpretations of the Uttaratantra, the most authoritative Indic commentary on buddha-nature.

Offers a fresh perspective on the Mahābhārata based on an exploration of its ending, the Svargārohaṇa parvan.

Addresses Ming Dynasty philosopher Wang Fuzhi’s neo-Confucianism from the perspective of contemporary ecological humanism.