Presents an iconoclastic account of morality and moral discourse from the perspective of Daoist philosophy.

Draws on indigenous African political thought in order to construct a political philosophy that will resist and restrain necropolitics and promote human flourishing in Africa.

Shows how Engaged Buddhists can expand their understanding of the causes of collective suffering and develop nonviolent means for social transformation through a dialectic of love, power, and justice.

Offers an innovative analysis of gates—as architectural components, visual images, and mental constructs—in early Chinese thought and material culture.

Offers a new, interreligious approach to questions of mission and conversion, grounded in a close study of the Chinmaya Mission, Ramakrishna Mission and other movements associated with the Hindu tradition of Advaita Vedānta.

Challenges readers to use utopian thinking and practice to counter the conditions of the present and create an alternative future.

Explores the cultural dynamics of this ancient form of Sanskrit theater.

A groundbreaking study of jinn doppelgangers and the problem of evil in Akbarian Sufism.

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

Explores the music of the Tibetan Chöd tradition.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.