Provides a rhetorical analysis of female spirit medium's autobiographies in the historical and social contexts of Victorian era America.

A wide-ranging analysis of heavenly twin imagery in early Jewish extrabiblical texts.

The first comprehensive anthropological description of the Khmer Buddhism practiced by Cambodian refugees in the United States over the past four decades.

Demonstrates how students and educators can resist narrow, utilitarian views of higher education’s purpose.

A study of comparative metaphysics that explores the concepts of Reality and Appearance and their relevance to contemporary religious consciousness.

Examines religious communities as advocates of environmental stewardship and sustainable agriculture practices.

An investigation of the spiritual encounter between a twentieth-century Dominican friar and an eleventh-century Afghani Sufi master.

Explores the significance of Indian control spirits as a dominating force in nineteenth-century American Spiritualism.

First English translations of a novel and two play excerpts based on tales of the goddess Chen Jinggu, an eighth-century shaman and present-day cult deity.

Explores the relationship between revelation and reason in medieval Islamic intellectual history.

Offers a profound vision of the Christian epic as the site of the modern apocalyptic reenactment of the original apocalypse.

Restores the Platonic history and context of mysticism and shows how mysticism helps us understand more deeply the humanities as a whole, from philosophy and literature to art.

Examines key theoretical aspects of the emerging field of second-person contemplative education.

Explores language and mysticism, Buddhism and Zen, Christianity, comparative religion, psychedelics, and psychology and psychotherapy.

Challenges the conventional view of a “disenchanted” and secular modernity, and recovers the complex relation that exists between science, religion, and esotericism in the modern world.

A comprehensive study of Lessing’s religious thought.

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

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

Offers a fresh perspective on the Mahābhārata based on an exploration of its ending, the Svargārohaṇa parvan.

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

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

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

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.

Addresses Ming Dynasty philosopher Wang Fuzhi’s neo-Confucianism from the perspective of contemporary ecological humanism.

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