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

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

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

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

Explores the effectiveness and value of meditation in a college classroom.

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.

Examines the role of plants in botanical mythology, from Aboriginal Australia to Zoroastrian Persia.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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