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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Brings early Daoist writings into conversation with contemporary contemplative studies.

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

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

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

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

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

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.