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.

Collecting all forty volumes of The History of al-Ṭabarī.

How Shinran, a seminal figure in Pure Land Buddhism, was guided by a vision of Shōtoku, the imperial prince who was both a political and religious figure..

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

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.

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

Six lectures by eminent Buddhist thinker Keiji Nishitani reflecting on Buddhism for the modern world.

A fascinating exploration of how the transcendent is expressed in the spatial sensibility of premodern Islam.