A collection of Raj’s groundbreaking ethnographic studies of “vernacular” Catholic traditions in Tamil Nadu, India.

A groundbreaking and hopeful new look at contemporary spirituality, transpersonal psychology, integral education, and religious diversity and pluralism.

Explores miracles as dimensions of everyday existence through the lens of religious naturalism.

Presents the process theistic thought of Whitehead as a third alternative between classical theism and religious skepticism.

An analysis of theological and philosophical understandings of debt and its role in contemporary capitalism.

Engages the global ecological crisis through a radical rethinking of what it means to inhabit the earth.

Art as yoga and meditation for artists, contemplative practitioners, art educators, and art therapists.

Brings popular cinema and Jewish religious texts into a meaningful dialogue.

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.

Offers a new theology of desire and delight based on the Christian hope for bodily resurrection.

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.

Explores the meanings of G. I. Gurdjieff’s enneagram.

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.

Looks at the Daoist Zhuangzi's critique of Confucianism.

Considers film as a form of Buddhist ritual and contemplative practice.

Uncovers an overlooked aspect of the Italian American experience.

Examines Buddhism, Confucianism, and Christianity in Korea, focusing on their mutual accommodation, exclusion, conflict, and assimilation.

Discusses the work of a central, but poorly understood, figure in the development of Persian Sufism, Aḥmad al-Ghazālī.

A study of the roots and legacy of German Idealist philosophy for trinitarian theology.

Confucian philosopher Xunzi’s moral thought is considered in light of the modern focus on self-realization.

Examines how embodiment is conceived and experienced in South Asian religions.

Presents integral approaches to ecology that cross the boundaries of the humanities, social sciences, and biophysical sciences.

Discusses the conditions of possibility for intercultural and comparative philosophy, and for crosscultural communication at large.

Explores the activities and political personas of women activists in Shiv Sena, a militant Indian political party.

A history of the concept of God through the lens of process thought.

Describes a Platonic personal spirituality based on reason that is readily accessible to people today.

A contemporary philosophy of religion that offers a phenomenology of love.

Discusses the origins and cultural history of the Theravada Buddhist ideals behind the Thai institution of monarchy.

A comprehensive exploration of the philosophical issues raised by mysticism.

Explores sacrificial practices across a range of contexts from prehistory to the present.

Employs Robert Bellah’s notion of civil religion to explore East Asia’s Confucian revival.

Looks at the concept of Ultimate Reality in Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, and Christianity.

Using the thought of Christian thinker Thomas Aquinas and Neo-Confucian Zhu Xi, explores how to exercise and limit authority.

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.

Examines a fascinating and important figure in the history of modern Jewish ethics.

Interviews and profiles of spiritual and cultural figures influenced by Buddhism.

Explores democracy with religious freedom and its dependence on theism.

Presents multifaceted aspects of Asian Muslim women’s lives and agencies.

An overview of Daoist texts on passive meditation from the Latter Han through Tang periods.

A constructive critique of neuropsychological research on human consciousness and religious experience that applies the thought of Bernard Lonergan.

A reconsideration of Zhu Xi, known as the “great synthesizer” of Confucianism, which establishes him as an important thinker in his own right.

Offers an overview of Sufism in North America.

Explores whether consciousness-based practices like meditation and prayer can contribute to social change.

An anthology of primary texts on meditation and contemplative prayer from a wide range of religious traditions.

Four Warring States texts discovered during recent decades challenge longstanding understandings of Chinese intellectual history.

Describes how religious tradition is established as available within a text, free from ritual and observance, in Buddhism and Christianity.

Challenges standard views of the origins of the Daodejing, revealing the work’s roots in a tradition of physical cultivation.

Provides a metaphysical outlook for religious naturalism.

A theologically informed look at the postcolonial self that forms as Korean immigrants confront life in the United States.

A poetic, philosophical, and political account of Nietzsche’s importance to Bataille, and of Bataille’s experience in Nazi-occupied France.

Presents new ways of thinking about the human and the humanities through a rethinking of Antigone.

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.

Discusses how William James’s work suggests a world without will, self, or time and how research supports this perspective.

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.

Discusses the journey of Buddhist ideas on awareness and personhood from India to China.

Explores the paradoxical symmetry between the divine and demonic in early Jewish mystical texts.

Explores facets of North American Buddhism while taking into account the impact of globalization and increasing interconnectivity.

The concluding volume in a trilogy advancing a systematic philosophical theology, this book presents a plausible sacred worldview for religious participation.

Thorough exploration of the distinct culture of the Mappila Muslims of Kerala, India.

A reconsideration of the Confucian concept li (ritual or ritual propriety), one that references Western philosophers as well as the Chinese context.

Explores occultism in the writings of four authors who were members of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.

A consideration of Confucian ethics that employs the work and concerns of the eminent comparative ethicist Joel J. Kupperman.

David N. Keightley’s seminal essays on the origins of Chinese society are brought together in one volume.

Explores the resources for contemporary ethics found in the work of the Cheng brothers, canonical neo-Confucian philophers.

A wide-ranging consideration of the emerging field of contemplative education.

Uses virtue ethics to offer a sexual ethics inclusive of LGBT and straight people, one that challenges the longstanding procreative patriarchal norm.

An examination of the philosophical notion of sacrifice from Kant to Nietzsche.

Explores the influence of Sufism on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century writers.

Discusses Hindu Advaita Vedānta as a philosophy of social justice for the modern world.

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.

Reveals the triumphs and struggles of contemporary Christian congregations to express female imagery of God in worship.

An interdisciplinary exploration of the contemporary Confucian revival.

A gender-critical consideration of women and religion in Chinese traditions from medieval to modern times.

Discusses the role of symbols in religion and suggests particular symbols appropriate to religious naturalism.

A poetic and philosophical negotiation of the alternatives of atheism and religious faith.

A guide to the phenomenal crop of prophets, cults, and utopian communities that arose in Upstate New York from 1776 to 1914.

Provocative reading of the role masochism plays in structuring the aesthetics and political philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

A wide ranging consideration of the work of contemporary ethicist David Wong.

Challenges traditional views to consider Xunzi as a religious thinker.

Considers what is known of acclaimed early Sufi master Abū Bakr al-Shiblī and how he was characterized in various times and places.

Discusses how Zhou Dunyi's thought became a cornerstone of neo-Confucianism.

Discusses both depictions of Buddhism in film and Buddhist takes on a variety of films.

A translation of the Īśvara Gītā, a parallel text to the Bhagavad Gītā that promotes religious inclusion.

Uses both textual and ethnographic sources to demonstrate that in Śaṅkara’s vedānta, brahman is an active force as well as a transcendent ultimate.

Examines the ways in which the inclusion of African diasporic religious practices serves as a transgressive tool in narrative discourses in the Americas.

Offers a new paradigm of reality, based on the interaction between science, culture, spirituality, religion, and society.

Analyzes contemporary technological society through the lens of Greek tragedy.

Considers the legacy and future of radical theology.

Argues that Christianity does not require its supernatural aspects.

Contributes a black Atlantic perspective to postmodernism, theology, and metaphysics.

Outlines a mystical theology and experience of the sacred founded on the absence of god.

Explores how medieval Muslim theologians constructed a female gender identity based on an ideal of maternity and how women contested it.

Explores the rise of the idea of nothing in Western modernity and how its figuration is transforming and offering new possibilities.

A wide-ranging exploration of Buddhism and family in Asia--from biological families to families created in monasteries.

Considers Jewish studies as an academic discipline from its origins to the present.

Explores interactions between Europeans and Moroccans on both sides of the straits in the latter half of the nineteenth century.

Exploring homegrown movements and figures, proclaims “American Hinduism” as a distinct religious tradition.

Bridges theory, art, and practice to discuss emerging issues in transnational religious movements in Latina/o and African diasporas.

Continues the author’s inquiry into the development of the Chinese philosophical concept Li, concluding in Song and Ming dynasty Neo-Confucianism.