Religion and Spirituality
Vernacular Catholicism, Vernacular Saints
A collection of Raj’s groundbreaking ethnographic studies of “vernacular” Catholic traditions in Tamil Nadu, India.
Participation and the Mystery
A groundbreaking and hopeful new look at contemporary spirituality, transpersonal psychology, integral education, and religious diversity and pluralism.
The Extraordinary in the Ordinary
Explores miracles as dimensions of everyday existence through the lens of religious naturalism.
Whitehead's Religious Thought
Presents the process theistic thought of Whitehead as a third alternative between classical theism and religious skepticism.
The Debt of the Living
An analysis of theological and philosophical understandings of debt and its role in contemporary capitalism.
Mountains, Rivers, and the Great Earth
Engages the global ecological crisis through a radical rethinking of what it means to inhabit the earth.
Art as Contemplative Practice
Art as yoga and meditation for artists, contemplative practitioners, art educators, and art therapists.
Movies and Midrash
Brings popular cinema and Jewish religious texts into a meaningful dialogue.
The First Islamic Classic in Chinese
A translation of Wang Daiyu’s Real Commentary on the True Teaching, the first and most influential work written in the Chinese language on Islam.
Sex on Earth as It Is in Heaven
Offers a new theology of desire and delight based on the Christian hope for bodily resurrection.
Failing Desire
Draws on theology and queer theory to argue for the power of humiliating pleasures in a culture oriented very strongly to denying any enjoyment that is not about success.
The Enneagram of G. I. Gurdjieff
Explores the meanings of G. I. Gurdjieff’s enneagram.
Unruly Catholic Nuns
Explores the voices of current and former Catholic nuns as they share their lived experiences with Catholicism, both in accordance and in conflict with the institutional Church.
Zhuangzi's Critique of the Confucians
Looks at the Daoist Zhuangzi's critique of Confucianism.
Seeing Like the Buddha
Considers film as a form of Buddhist ritual and contemplative practice.
Beyond Memory
Uncovers an overlooked aspect of the Italian American experience.
Korean Religions in Relation
Examines Buddhism, Confucianism, and Christianity in Korea, focusing on their mutual accommodation, exclusion, conflict, and assimilation.
Ahmad al-Ghazālī, Remembrance, and the Metaphysics of Love
Discusses the work of a central, but poorly understood, figure in the development of Persian Sufism, Aḥmad al-Ghazālī.
German Idealism's Trinitarian Legacy
A study of the roots and legacy of German Idealist philosophy for trinitarian theology.
Self-Realization through Confucian Learning
Confucian philosopher Xunzi’s moral thought is considered in light of the modern focus on self-realization.
Refiguring the Body
Examines how embodiment is conceived and experienced in South Asian religions.
The Variety of Integral Ecologies
Presents integral approaches to ecology that cross the boundaries of the humanities, social sciences, and biophysical sciences.
Fundamentals of Comparative and Intercultural Philosophy
Discusses the conditions of possibility for intercultural and comparative philosophy, and for crosscultural communication at large.
The Dashing Ladies of Shiv Sena
Explores the activities and political personas of women activists in Shiv Sena, a militant Indian political party.
A History of the Concept of God
A history of the concept of God through the lens of process thought.
Rational Spirituality and Divine Virtue in Plato
Describes a Platonic personal spirituality based on reason that is readily accessible to people today.
Between Faith and Belief
A contemporary philosophy of religion that offers a phenomenology of love.
Thailand's Theory of Monarchy
Discusses the origins and cultural history of the Theravada Buddhist ideals behind the Thai institution of monarchy.
Philosophy of Mysticism
A comprehensive exploration of the philosophical issues raised by mysticism.
Diversity of Sacrifice
Explores sacrificial practices across a range of contexts from prehistory to the present.
Confucianism, A Habit of the Heart
Employs Robert Bellah’s notion of civil religion to explore East Asia’s Confucian revival.
The Divine Quest, East and West
Looks at the concept of Ultimate Reality in Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, and Christianity.
Embracing Our Complexity
Using the thought of Christian thinker Thomas Aquinas and Neo-Confucian Zhu Xi, explores how to exercise and limit authority.
Engaged Emancipation
A wide-ranging analysis of the Mokṣopāya, the Indian literary classic that teaches through storytelling how to enjoy an active, successful, worldly life in a spiritually enlightened way.
Sharing the Burden
Examines a fascinating and important figure in the history of modern Jewish ethics.
New World Dharma
Interviews and profiles of spiritual and cultural figures influenced by Buddhism.
Religion among We the People
Explores democracy with religious freedom and its dependence on theism.
Asian Muslim Women
Presents multifaceted aspects of Asian Muslim women’s lives and agencies.
Daoism, Meditation, and the Wonders of Serenity
An overview of Daoist texts on passive meditation from the Latter Han through Tang periods.
Brain, Consciousness, and God
A constructive critique of neuropsychological research on human consciousness and religious experience that applies the thought of Bernard Lonergan.
Returning to Zhu Xi
A reconsideration of Zhu Xi, known as the “great synthesizer” of Confucianism, which establishes him as an important thinker in his own right.
Living Sufism in North America
Offers an overview of Sufism in North America.
Subtle Activism
Explores whether consciousness-based practices like meditation and prayer can contribute to social change.
Contemplative Literature
An anthology of primary texts on meditation and contemplative prayer from a wide range of religious traditions.
Buried Ideas
Four Warring States texts discovered during recent decades challenge longstanding understandings of Chinese intellectual history.
Fetishizing Tradition
Describes how religious tradition is established as available within a text, free from ritual and observance, in Buddhism and Christianity.
In the Shadows of the Dao
Challenges standard views of the origins of the Daodejing, revealing the work’s roots in a tradition of physical cultivation.
Nature as Sacred Ground
Provides a metaphysical outlook for religious naturalism.
A Postcolonial Self
A theologically informed look at the postcolonial self that forms as Korean immigrants confront life in the United States.
On Nietzsche
A poetic, philosophical, and political account of Nietzsche’s importance to Bataille, and of Bataille’s experience in Nazi-occupied France.
Revivals
Presents new ways of thinking about the human and the humanities through a rethinking of Antigone.
Preaching in My Yes Dress
The frank and funny story of a church-geek girl who spent twenty years in the ecclesiastical trenches as a Lutheran pastor, preaching weekly words of hope she wasn’t sure she even believed.
The Illusion of Will, Self, and Time
Discusses how William James’s work suggests a world without will, self, or time and how research supports this perspective.
Bringing Zion Home
Demonstrates how American Jews used culture—art, dance, music, fashion, literature—to win the hearts and minds of postwar Americans to the cause of Israel.
Encounters of Mind
Discusses the journey of Buddhist ideas on awareness and personhood from India to China.
Divine Scapegoats
Explores the paradoxical symmetry between the divine and demonic in early Jewish mystical texts.
Buddhism beyond Borders
Explores facets of North American Buddhism while taking into account the impact of globalization and increasing interconnectivity.
Religion
The concluding volume in a trilogy advancing a systematic philosophical theology, this book presents a plausible sacred worldview for religious participation.
Mappila Muslim Culture
Thorough exploration of the distinct culture of the Mappila Muslims of Kerala, India.
Confucian Propriety and Ritual Learning
A reconsideration of the Confucian concept li (ritual or ritual propriety), one that references Western philosophers as well as the Chinese context.
Talking to the Gods
Explores occultism in the writings of four authors who were members of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.
Moral Cultivation and Confucian Character
A consideration of Confucian ethics that employs the work and concerns of the eminent comparative ethicist Joel J. Kupperman.
These Bones Shall Rise Again
David N. Keightley’s seminal essays on the origins of Chinese society are brought together in one volume.
Why Be Moral?
Explores the resources for contemporary ethics found in the work of the Cheng brothers, canonical neo-Confucian philophers.
Contemplative Learning and Inquiry across Disciplines
A wide-ranging consideration of the emerging field of contemplative education.
Sexual Virtue
Uses virtue ethics to offer a sexual ethics inclusive of LGBT and straight people, one that challenges the longstanding procreative patriarchal norm.
Sacrifice in the Post-Kantian Tradition
An examination of the philosophical notion of sacrifice from Kant to Nietzsche.
Sufism and American Literary Masters
Explores the influence of Sufism on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century writers.
A Hindu Theology of Liberation
Discusses Hindu Advaita Vedānta as a philosophy of social justice for the modern world.
The Archetypal Sunnī Scholar
Considers the work of nineteenth-century theologian Ibrahim al-Bajuri and contests the notion of intellectual decline in Islamic thought from the thirteenth through nineteenth centuries.
Women, Ritual, and Power
Reveals the triumphs and struggles of contemporary Christian congregations to express female imagery of God in worship.
The Sage Returns
An interdisciplinary exploration of the contemporary Confucian revival.
Gendering Chinese Religion
A gender-critical consideration of women and religion in Chinese traditions from medieval to modern times.
More Than Discourse
Discusses the role of symbols in religion and suggests particular symbols appropriate to religious naturalism.
A Man of Little Faith
A poetic and philosophical negotiation of the alternatives of atheism and religious faith.
Upstate Cauldron
A guide to the phenomenal crop of prophets, cults, and utopian communities that arose in Upstate New York from 1776 to 1914.
Social Contract, Masochist Contract
Provocative reading of the role masochism plays in structuring the aesthetics and political philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
Moral Relativism and Chinese Philosophy
A wide ranging consideration of the work of contemporary ethicist David Wong.
Ritual and Religion in the Xunzi
Challenges traditional views to consider Xunzi as a religious thinker.
Shiblī
Considers what is known of acclaimed early Sufi master Abū Bakr al-Shiblī and how he was characterized in various times and places.
Reconstructing the Confucian Dao
Discusses how Zhou Dunyi's thought became a cornerstone of neo-Confucianism.
Buddhism and American Cinema
Discusses both depictions of Buddhism in film and Buddhist takes on a variety of films.
Lord Śiva's Song
A translation of the Īśvara Gītā, a parallel text to the Bhagavad Gītā that promotes religious inclusion.
The Hidden Lives of Brahman
Uses both textual and ethnographic sources to demonstrate that in Śaṅkara’s vedānta, brahman is an active force as well as a transcendent ultimate.
Oshun's Daughters
Examines the ways in which the inclusion of African diasporic religious practices serves as a transgressive tool in narrative discourses in the Americas.
From Modernity to Cosmodernity
Offers a new paradigm of reality, based on the interaction between science, culture, spirituality, religion, and society.
Destiny Domesticated
Analyzes contemporary technological society through the lens of Greek tragedy.
Resurrecting the Death of God
Considers the legacy and future of radical theology.
Christianity without God
Argues that Christianity does not require its supernatural aspects.
Mothership Connections
Contributes a black Atlantic perspective to postmodernism, theology, and metaphysics.
Inner Experience
Outlines a mystical theology and experience of the sacred founded on the absence of god.
Conceiving Identities
Explores how medieval Muslim theologians constructed a female gender identity based on an ideal of maternity and how women contested it.
Auden's O
Explores the rise of the idea of nothing in Western modernity and how its figuration is transforming and offering new possibilities.
Family in Buddhism
A wide-ranging exploration of Buddhism and family in Asia--from biological families to families created in monasteries.
The Study of Judaism
Considers Jewish studies as an academic discipline from its origins to the present.
Mutual Othering
Explores interactions between Europeans and Moroccans on both sides of the straits in the latter half of the nineteenth century.
Homegrown Gurus
Exploring homegrown movements and figures, proclaims “American Hinduism” as a distinct religious tradition.
Yemoja
Bridges theory, art, and practice to discuss emerging issues in transnational religious movements in Latina/o and African diasporas.
Beyond Oneness and Difference
Continues the author’s inquiry into the development of the Chinese philosophical concept Li, concluding in Song and Ming dynasty Neo-Confucianism.