Recovers Walt Whitman as a self-conscious religious figure with an ethic based in male comradeship, one at odds with the temper of his times.

An introduction to four Western figures influenced by Sufism who wrote about an "inner," esoteric Islam.

A searching study of Eliphas Lévi and the French occult revival.

A survey of Western esoteric currents since late antiquity, with an emphasis on the last six centuries.

An impressionistic history of the Western spiritual tradition.

Leading scholar-practitioners discuss the strengths, limits, and potential of Integral Theory and the AQAL model.

Leading researchers and practitioners explore the frontiers of education from an integral perspective.

Introduces integral psychotherapy to scholars, practicing psychotherapists, and general readers.

A work of and about comparative philosophy that stresses the importance of language in intercultural endeavors.

A philosophical consideration of key religious issues from a pragmatist’s perspective.

Explores the unacknowledged psychological element in Maimonides’ work, one which prefigures the latter insights of Freud.

Explores the milieu of Taiwan’s Buddhist nuns, who have the greatest numbers in the Buddhist world and a prominent place in their own country.

An introduction to the Zohar, the crowning work of medieval Kabbalah. Includes original translations and analysis.

Illuminates the role of empathetic love in psychotherapy.

Explores a range of Buddhist perspectives in a distinctly American context.

Provides an overview of some of the great texts of Asian philosophy and religion along with an exploration of the contexts in which they arose.

An overview of Korean Buddhism and its major figures in the modern period.

The diary of Mircea Eliade, the seminal thinker on religion, during the period he served as a diplomat in Portugal.

A comprehensive look at the life and work of one of the towering figures of Renaissance mysticism.

A wide-ranging, readable account of the Theravada Buddhist thought and practice in the Southeast Asian societies of Thailand, Myanmar (Burma), Laos, Cambodia, and Sri Lanka.

Looks at how a spiritual tradition can be appropriated by those involved in ethno-nationalist conflict.

Looks at Buddhist influences in American literature and how literature has shaped the reception of Buddhism in North America.

Fascinating stories of ordinary people in the Middle Colonies who remained loyal to the Crown.

A history of the Sandemanians, a little-known but ultimately influential Christian sect in colonial America.

Examines the Jewish philosopher’s influence on theology, philosophy, medicine, and law, and his impact on later thinkers.

An engagement between Confucianism and the philosophy of Richard Rorty.

Explores Xunzi's thought in relation to the early Chinese philosophical context that relied on the natural world.

Reconciles the conflict between these two seemingly diverse traditions.

An original and revolutionary interpretation of the Jews’ destiny in modern politics.

Brings an ecotheological perspective to postmodern gift theory.

Celebrates and instructs in the healing power of breath.

Perspectives on genetically modified foods from world religions and indigenous traditions.

Reveals the sophisticated design of Rumī’s Mathnawī, showing that this seemingly unstructured work both describes and functions as spiritual training.

Translations of two works from Sri Lanka on Yasodharā, the wife of the Buddha—an allusive and intriguing figure in Buddhist lore and literature.

Explores the relationship between material prosperity and spirituality in contemporary Thai Buddhism.

Considers the ethics and challenges of biotechnology.

Essays from the singular experience of Buddhist social critic and philosopher David R. Loy on classic and contemporary concerns.

Looks at the connections between Thoreau’s Walden and the work that influenced it, the Bhagavad-Gita.

A comprehensive overview of Tibetan Buddhist thinker Mipam’s work on emptiness and Buddha-nature.

Discusses the historical development of the well-loved story of the Prophet Muhammad’s night journey to the divine realm and back again.

How a religion based on the sacredness of nature deals with the problem of evil.

Explores the relationship between gender and identity in early medieval Germanic societies.

Explores the importance of Buddhism as it developed in the Krishna River Valley of Andhra (modern-day Andhra Pradesh) and its influence.

Looks at perceptions of the miraculous in a variety of contemporary South Asian religious traditions-Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, and Christianity.

Explores the work of Anne Conway, whose philosophy of the natural world incorporated a spiritual vision.

Cuts through traditional debates to argue that religious phenomena are cocreated by human cognition and a generative spiritual power.

Brings Confucianism and Daoism into conversation with contemporary philosophy and the contemporary world situation.

Traces the roots of logos in different cultural milieux.

A study and translation of a tantric contemplative manual and the commentary on it.

A collection of works by nineteenth-century Russian religious philosopher V. S. Soloviev, critic of secularization, anti-Semitism, and the religious life of his time.

Looks at Augustine’s theology in light of environmental concerns.

Looks at the history and revival of religious naturalism, a spiritual path without a supreme being.

Examines radical and messianic movements in Israel seeking to rebuild the Third Temple in Jerusalem.

Explores the spiritual vision of Van Gogh’s painting The Night Café.

An interlinear edition of the spiritual classic that provides devanagari, transliterated Sanskrit, and English versions of the Gītā.

The oldest surviving anthology of lyric poems from India, the Sattasai presents the many aspects of love and provides a realistic counterpart to the Kāmasūtra.

The story of a 17th century Mohawk woman's interaction with her land, the Jesuits, and the religion they brought.

Insights into the experience and philosophy of Buddhism from a Korean perspective.

Explores the career of Abraham Abulafia, thirteenth-century founder of the school of ecstatic Kabbalah.

Explores ideas on women and sexuality presented in the great Hindu epic, the Mahabharata.

A Buddhist perspective on classroom teaching.

A meticulous study of various Taiwanese religions and their relationships with democratic values and behaviors.

An ambitious and timely look at the role of religion in New York State's early public schools.

Discusses an essential Tibetan Buddhist work that shows how Noble Beings progress toward enlightenment.

Responses to Fackenheim’s reflections on the centrality of the Holocaust to philosophy, Jewish thought, and contemporary experience.

A fresh look at Yoga philosophy.

Describes the emergence of powerful fields of consciousness that influence students’ learning and personal transformation.

Essays and poems explore the contemporary relevance of Emerson’s work and thought.

Introduces readers to the work of Paul Ricoeur, one of the twentieth century’s leading philosophers.

Essays on various facets of Nursi’s spirituality as portrayed in his Risale-i Nur.

A comprehensive overview of Ayurveda.

Appearing in English for the first time, Schelling’s 1842 lectures develop the idea that many philosophical concepts are born of religious-mythological notions.

A study of the seminal Tibetan Buddhist work, Gateway to Learning.

Looks at Ricoeur’s writings on love and justice, prominent toward the end of his life, and how these serve as an interpretive key to his thought as a whole.

A work of environmental ethics that looks at how “otherkind”—and humankind—contributes to our moral imagination.

A translation and analysis of Guru Nanak’s description of the Sikh path to spiritual liberation.

Situates Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite as a Neoplatonic philosopher in the tradition of Plotinus and Proclus.

Shows there is a strong religious impulse in postmodern literature and film.

Understanding Mantras explores the origin, nature, function, and significance of mantras within the bounds of the Hindu tradition. It analyzes the use of mantras in the Vedic age, in the great theistic ...

Explores shamanic and Tibetan Buddhist attitudes toward dreams.

Explores the Christian Right’s use of tailored rhetorics to advance multiple and varied antigay political projects.

A comprehensive introduction to the life and work of the preeminent expositor of perennial philosophy.

Historical exploration of Masonic rituals of initiation.

Looks at the emergence of Shiism as a distinct communal identity within Islam.

A unique consideration of the work of Mircea Eliade highlighting scholarship from outside the Anglophone world.

Discusses the ideas of the most important living Muslim thinker and leader in contemporary Turkey.

Discusses the expression of environmental values in Christian art as it displaced pagan aesthetics from the third century to the Reformation.

Takes the reader on a pilgrimage to Mount Kōya, the holy Buddhist mountain in Japan.

Explores how spiritual values are learned and mind and body developed through the practice of the Japanese arts.

Includes new and updated material, as well as a readers’ guide with questions for writing and discussion groups.

Explores the ritual practice of Buddhist preaching.

A modern spiritual classic on the perfection of the soul by a renowned writer from the Islamic tradition.

Examines the practice of relic veneration in a variety of forms of Buddhism.

This reappraisal of the middle section of Augustine's Confessions covers the period of Augustine's conversion to Christianity. The author argues against the prevailing Neoplatonic interpretation of Augustine.

Examines the experiences of women activists of the Islamist Refah (Welfare) party in Turkey.

Uses the concept of religiosity to challenge traditional views of Nietzsche and Zhuangzi as nihilistic and anti-religious.

A new interpretation of Hindu tradition focusing on the nature of God, the value of the world, and the meaning of liberation.

Explores yoga and meditation in Eastern religions, incorporating psychological and social aspects of these practices.

Continuing his groundbreaking reappraisal of the Confessions, Carl G. Vaught shows how Augustine's solutions to philosophical and theological problems emerge and discusses the longstanding question of the work's unity.

An accessible and original exploration of the theological and philosophical significance of Kierkegaard’s religious thought.