A fresh look at Yoga philosophy.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Explores the issue of the perfectibility of nature in philosophy, psychology, and a variety of world religions.

Discusses Derrida as a religious thinker, reading Dante’s Commedia and Derrida’s religious writings together.

Historical exploration of Masonic rituals of initiation.

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

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

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.

The third edition of this well-regarded introduction to Hinduism adds new material on the religion’s origins, on its relations with rival traditions, and on Hindu science.

The index to the 39-volume History of al-Tabari.