Revives the concept of Soul, urging an understanding of Soul as expression.

An annotated translation of an essential work of twentieth-century Tibetan Buddhist thought, one that explicates teachings on the Middle Way.

Examines the relationship between diverse iterations of Rosicrucianism and the philosophy of the Enlightenment.

Explores the mutually dependent relationship of faith and reason in human life and human knowledge.

The robust memoirs of an unusual twentieth-century seeker and student of G. I. Gurdjieff.

Explores the prevalence of Buddhist ideas in American literature since the 1970s.

A ground-breaking book on using meditation in education and how it can enhance teaching and learning.

Essays describe Italian philosopher Gianni Vattimo’s unique and radical hermeneutic philosophy.

The development of early Islamic mysticism and metaphysics is presented through the life and work of theologian Abu Bakr al-Wasiti.

A wide-ranging consideration of Confucianism for Western readers.

Details the transformation of Tamil literary culture that came with colonialism and the encounter with Western modernity.

An exploration of Chinese during a time of monumental change, the period after the fall of the Han dynasty.

Argues that philosophy, as multidisciplinary comparative inquiry, is essential to the contemporary academic study of religion.

A consideration of Confucian ethics as a living ethical tradition with contemporary relevance.

A critical look at the development of the phenomenological approach to the study of religion, revealing its evaluative and metaphysical concepts.

Looks at how ecotheology has created a new vision of the natural world and the place of humans within it.

A multi-faceted portrait of Lakshmi, Hindu goddess of wealth and prosperity. Includes translations of verses used to invoke this goddess.

Analyzes the way in which Austen blends ironic criticism with moral affirmation through her complex and little-understood management of the narrative point of view.

Explores the relationship between feminism and New Age Culture.

Enlightening encounters with the world's religions from a Hindu perspective.

Challenges readers to reconsider the moral standing of plants.

An insightful and often humorous tale of rural life and how an old house and its land can bring a broken person back to wellness.

Explores the concept of the Limit (barzakh), which the great Sufi mystic Ibn al-'Arabi used to address the philosophical controversy regarding God's relationship with the world.

The essential guide on how to teach about dreaming.

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.