Religion and Spirituality
Fundamentals of Comparative and Intercultural Philosophy
Discusses the conditions of possibility for intercultural and comparative philosophy, and for crosscultural communication at large.
Confucianism, A Habit of the Heart
Employs Robert Bellah’s notion of civil religion to explore East Asia’s Confucian revival.
Diversity of Sacrifice
Explores sacrificial practices across a range of contexts from prehistory to the present.
The Divine Quest, East and West
Looks at the concept of Ultimate Reality in Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, and Christianity.
Brain, Consciousness, and God
A constructive critique of neuropsychological research on human consciousness and religious experience that applies the thought of Bernard Lonergan.
A Postcolonial Self
A theologically informed look at the postcolonial self that forms as Korean immigrants confront life in the United States.
Embracing Our Complexity
Using the thought of Christian thinker Thomas Aquinas and Neo-Confucian Zhu Xi, explores how to exercise and limit authority.
Living Sufism in North America
Offers an overview of Sufism in North America.
In the Shadows of the Dao
Challenges standard views of the origins of the Daodejing, revealing the work’s roots in a tradition of physical cultivation.
Engaged Emancipation
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.
Returning to Zhu Xi
A reconsideration of Zhu Xi, known as the “great synthesizer” of Confucianism, which establishes him as an important thinker in his own right.
Buried Ideas
Four Warring States texts discovered during recent decades challenge longstanding understandings of Chinese intellectual history.
Sharing the Burden
Examines a fascinating and important figure in the history of modern Jewish ethics.
On Nietzsche
A poetic, philosophical, and political account of Nietzsche’s importance to Bataille, and of Bataille’s experience in Nazi-occupied France.
Revivals
Presents new ways of thinking about the human and the humanities through a rethinking of Antigone.
Fetishizing Tradition
Describes how religious tradition is established as available within a text, free from ritual and observance, in Buddhism and Christianity.
Daoism, Meditation, and the Wonders of Serenity
An overview of Daoist texts on passive meditation from the Latter Han through Tang periods.
Nature as Sacred Ground
Provides a metaphysical outlook for religious naturalism.
Religion among We the People
Explores democracy with religious freedom and its dependence on theism.
Asian Muslim Women
Presents multifaceted aspects of Asian Muslim women’s lives and agencies.
Subtle Activism
Explores whether consciousness-based practices like meditation and prayer can contribute to social change.
New World Dharma
Interviews and profiles of spiritual and cultural figures influenced by Buddhism.
Contemplative Literature
An anthology of primary texts on meditation and contemplative prayer from a wide range of religious traditions.
Preaching in My Yes Dress
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.
Religion
The concluding volume in a trilogy advancing a systematic philosophical theology, this book presents a plausible sacred worldview for religious participation.