Religion and Spirituality
Bringing Zion Home
Demonstrates how American Jews used culture—art, dance, music, fashion, literature—to win the hearts and minds of postwar Americans to the cause of Israel.
Women, Ritual, and Power
Reveals the triumphs and struggles of contemporary Christian congregations to express female imagery of God in worship.
Why Be Moral?
Explores the resources for contemporary ethics found in the work of the Cheng brothers, canonical neo-Confucian philophers.
More Than Discourse
Discusses the role of symbols in religion and suggests particular symbols appropriate to religious naturalism.
The Sage Returns
An interdisciplinary exploration of the contemporary Confucian revival.
Gendering Chinese Religion
A gender-critical consideration of women and religion in Chinese traditions from medieval to modern times.
A Hindu Theology of Liberation
Discusses Hindu Advaita Vedānta as a philosophy of social justice for the modern world.
Sufism and American Literary Masters
Explores the influence of Sufism on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century writers.
Sacrifice in the Post-Kantian Tradition
An examination of the philosophical notion of sacrifice from Kant to Nietzsche.
Sexual Virtue
Uses virtue ethics to offer a sexual ethics inclusive of LGBT and straight people, one that challenges the longstanding procreative patriarchal norm.
A Man of Little Faith
A poetic and philosophical negotiation of the alternatives of atheism and religious faith.
Moral Cultivation and Confucian Character
A consideration of Confucian ethics that employs the work and concerns of the eminent comparative ethicist Joel J. Kupperman.
These Bones Shall Rise Again
David N. Keightley’s seminal essays on the origins of Chinese society are brought together in one volume.
The Archetypal Sunnī Scholar
Considers the work of nineteenth-century theologian Ibrahim al-Bajuri and contests the notion of intellectual decline in Islamic thought from the thirteenth through nineteenth centuries.
Contemplative Learning and Inquiry across Disciplines
A wide-ranging consideration of the emerging field of contemplative education.
Upstate Cauldron
A guide to the phenomenal crop of prophets, cults, and utopian communities that arose in Upstate New York from 1776 to 1914.
Ritual and Religion in the Xunzi
Challenges traditional views to consider Xunzi as a religious thinker.
Buddhism and American Cinema
Discusses both depictions of Buddhism in film and Buddhist takes on a variety of films.
Social Contract, Masochist Contract
Provocative reading of the role masochism plays in structuring the aesthetics and political philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
Destiny Domesticated
Analyzes contemporary technological society through the lens of Greek tragedy.
Resurrecting the Death of God
Considers the legacy and future of radical theology.
The Hidden Lives of Brahman
Uses both textual and ethnographic sources to demonstrate that in Śaṅkara’s vedānta, brahman is an active force as well as a transcendent ultimate.
Lord Śiva's Song
A translation of the Īśvara Gītā, a parallel text to the Bhagavad Gītā that promotes religious inclusion.
From Modernity to Cosmodernity
Offers a new paradigm of reality, based on the interaction between science, culture, spirituality, religion, and society.
Reconstructing the Confucian Dao
Discusses how Zhou Dunyi's thought became a cornerstone of neo-Confucianism.