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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.