Discusses both depictions of Buddhism in film and Buddhist takes on a variety of films.

Provocative reading of the role masochism plays in structuring the aesthetics and political philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Analyzes contemporary technological society through the lens of Greek tragedy.

Considers the legacy and future of radical theology.

Uses both textual and ethnographic sources to demonstrate that in Śaṅkara’s vedānta, brahman is an active force as well as a transcendent ultimate.

A translation of the Īśvara Gītā, a parallel text to the Bhagavad Gītā that promotes religious inclusion.

Offers a new paradigm of reality, based on the interaction between science, culture, spirituality, religion, and society.

Discusses how Zhou Dunyi's thought became a cornerstone of neo-Confucianism.

A wide ranging consideration of the work of contemporary ethicist David Wong.

Considers what is known of acclaimed early Sufi master Abū Bakr al-Shiblī and how he was characterized in various times and places.

Examines the ways in which the inclusion of African diasporic religious practices serves as a transgressive tool in narrative discourses in the Americas.

Explores the nature and role of wisdom in education.

Argues that Christianity does not require its supernatural aspects.

Contributes a black Atlantic perspective to postmodernism, theology, and metaphysics.

Explores the exemplary legacy of Buddhist women across the centuries and across the Buddhist world.

Outlines a mystical theology and experience of the sacred founded on the absence of god.

Bridges theory, art, and practice to discuss emerging issues in transnational religious movements in Latina/o and African diasporas.

Explores the rise of the idea of nothing in Western modernity and how its figuration is transforming and offering new possibilities.

Continues the author’s inquiry into the development of the Chinese philosophical concept Li, concluding in Song and Ming dynasty Neo-Confucianism.

Explores how medieval Muslim theologians constructed a female gender identity based on an ideal of maternity and how women contested it.

Considers Jewish studies as an academic discipline from its origins to the present.

A wide-ranging exploration of Buddhism and family in Asia--from biological families to families created in monasteries.

Exploring homegrown movements and figures, proclaims “American Hinduism” as a distinct religious tradition.

Explores interactions between Europeans and Moroccans on both sides of the straits in the latter half of the nineteenth century.

Argues that homophobia will not be eradicated in the United States until religion is ended.