Traces the genealogy of the Western philosophic concept of the civil state, how that concept was assimilated into Egyptian political thought, and how it affected the 2013 coup against President Mursi.

Štofaník provides a unique, personal reading of weak theology and tries to inhabit the gap between it and its “founder,” John D. Caputo.

Offers a new perspective on the relationship between religion and the creation of the first Chinese empires.

Offers a new phenomenological method for biblical interpretation that opens up the possibility of an absolute science of scripture.

The first comprehensive treatment of Inoue Enryō, a pioneer of modern Buddhism and a key figure in the reception of Western philosophy in East Asia.

Discusses the complexities and paradoxes of love as represented in the history of Western philosophy and Christianity.

Explores the contemporary nature and the diverse narratives, rituals, and performances of the Navarātri Festival.

A study of Ghazali’s ethical thought as shown in his extensive treatment of the virtues and their relation to the ends of life and to each other.

Complete collection of Schwarzschild’s essays on the neo-Kantian Jewish philosopher Hermann Cohen.

Argues that Holocaust representation has ethical implications fundamentally linked to questions of good and evil.

The first major study of the idea of repentance, or tawba, in Islam.

Explores the place and meaning of philosophy of religion in our current poststructuralist, postsecular, postcolonialist context.

Provides a new orientation to philosophy of religion and a new theory of how religion ought to be defined.

Explores a growing number of films and filmmakers that challenge the strict boundaries between belief and unbelief.

Challenges prevailing conceptions of what religious ritual does and how it achieves its ends.

Delineates the knowable from the unknowable in philosophy, science, and theology.

Argues that Socrates’ fundamental role in the dialogues is to guide us toward self-inquiry and self-knowledge.

This volume brings social and cultural anthropologists into dialogue with historical sociology and illustrates the continued potential of the concept of civilization for all participants.

Attempts to think anew about philosophical questions from the perspective of breath and breathing.

Explores how the emotional experience of gratitude has been enlisted in neoliberal governance through the language of debt.

Offers a critical Pentecostal philosophy of God that challenges orthodox Christianity.

Captures how Indian Protestant Christians negotiate their religious and cultural identities within the Indian diaspora.

Challenges the monolithic view of Hinduism in the nineteenth century, and instead offers a vision of India that contains a rich multiplicity of Hinduisms, women’s stories, and cultural histories.

Presents a new window into the literary, philosophical, and theological concerns of this enigmatic thinker and writer.