Uses the intellectual encounter between Islam and modernity to explore the nature of culture, civilization, religion, and tradition.

Argues that ancient yantra (robot) tales reveal how their Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain authors thought about the nature of humanity and our role in a cosmos filled with divine and natural forces.

Illuminating new essays on Fichte's 1804 Wissenschaftslehre, or The Science of Knowing.

Explores the music of the Tibetan Chöd tradition.

Illuminates the cross-border migration and settlement of Catholics from Canada to northern New York.

Argues that, to make progress within environmental ethics, philosophers must explicitly engage in environmental metaphysics.

Argues for a revolutionary political theology that can be used to combat racism, sexism, and other forms of oppression.

A literary and historical investigation into an ancient Indian religious thinker, tracing his rise in importance in the Hindu tradition.

Looks at how different religious traditions (Christian, Buddhist, neopagan, and animist) have attempted to resacralize the earth and provide new values that include the more-than-human world.

Illuminating study of the ideas and influences of a near-forgotten American philosopher.

Calls into question the traditional polarity of theism and atheism.

A comparative study of wonder in South Asian religions.

Argues that friendship is the gift of a world that is not one's own and that transforms one's world in unforseeable ways.

Aims to let silence disclose itself by cultivating attunements with silences’ happening.

Presents Tantra from an ethnographic vantage point, through a series of case studies grounded in diverse settings across contemporary Asia.

Combines phenomenology with the "enactivist" approach to consciousness theory and recent emotion research to explore the way self-motivated action plans shape selective attention, exploration, and ultimately the mind's interpretation of reality - in philosophy, psychology, cultural awareness, and our personal lives.

A comprehensive introduction to the life and thought of one of the Islamic intellectual tradition’s most original and profound authors.

Argues that Daoism and dandyism, linked by likeminded philosophies of “carefree wandering,” deconstruct the puritanism and political correctness sought by Confucianism, Victorianism, and contemporary neoliberal culture.

Investigates, through a critical exploration of Derrida's political thought, the foundations of modern secular discourse in relation to issues of race and colonialism.

Offers a unique perspective on the study of religion revolutionized by contemporary continental thinking.

A clear translation and helpful explanations illuminate this ancient classic of self-cultivation for a modern audience.

Develops and defends a philosophical account of meaning, purpose, and value in human life and experience that is naturalistic without being reductionistic or scientistic.

Argues that self and selflessness are aspects of the same insoluble problem at the very heart of modernity.

Reevaluates Western and Chinese philosophical traditions to question the boundaries of entrenched conceptual frameworks.

A critical reflection on the limitations of Carl Schmitt's political theology, reconsidered in light of the current crisis of the liberal democratic order.