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Have You Been to Delphi?

A fascinating collection of tales and lore from the ancient Oracle at Delphi, this book provides both a collection of good stories and finds spiritual enlightenment weaved throughout these diverse offerings.

Marvin Fox: Collected Essays on Philosophy and on Judaism, Vol. 3

Edited by Jacob Neusner
Subjects: Jewish Studies

A selection of his more important writings.

Marvin Fox: Collected Essays on Philosophy and on Judaism, Vol. 2

Edited by Jacob Neusner
Subjects: Jewish Studies

A selection of his more important writings.

A Conceptual Commentary on Midrash Leviticus Rabbah

Examines each rabbinic text or sequence of homilies in order to uncover specific value concepts which are reflected in them either explicitly or implicitly.

Particularism and Universalism in Modern Jewish Thought

Explores how modern Judaism has balanced between universalism and particularism.

Understanding Jewish Theology

Edited by Jacob Neusner
Subjects: Jewish Studies

Explores the religious experience of Judaism through the perceptions and teachings of ordinary Jews and the creative elite.

A Conceptual Approach to the Mekilta

Describes the actual mode of thought of the Rabbis of the Midrash and the Talmud, and indicates how they derived their own moral teachings from the Bible.

The Rabbinic Mind

Explores the wider aspects of the rabbinic mind.

Worship and Ethics

Describes how Halakah, or Jewish Law, enables the individual to achieve religious experience.

The Incarnation of God

Examines the notion of divine incarnations as a central element of the portrait of God that came into focus through the Judaism of the dual Torah.

Theological Reflections on the Problem of Usury

An Arabic-language treatise on usury from a theological and philosophical perspective.

Shiʿite Heritage

Edited and translated by L. Clarke
Subjects: Religion And Spirituality

Explores Western and Muslim scholarship on multiple aspects of the Twelver Shi’ite tradition.

The Theology of Seder Eliahu

Attempts to discover a coherent unity in rabbinic theology.

Avenues Towards Christianity

Argues that the religious movement of Mormonism branched off from mainstream Calvinist Christianity in a slow and deliberate process.

The Earthly Paradise

Explores the history of how the Eden story in Genesis has been understood.

Organic Thinking

Thorough analysis of rabbinic thought.

The Genius of Christ

By Abbas Mahmud al-Aqqad
Edited and translated by F. Peter Ford Jr.
Introduction by F. Peter Ford Jr.
Subjects: Religion And Spirituality

Translation of an Arabic work extolling the person and mission of Jesus.

Dark Light

Reveals the effects of the cultural unconscious or "world soul" in human experience.

The Conservative Movement in Judaism

Illustrates how the American Conservative Movement in Judaism can continue to prosper amidst ideological and institutional challenges.

Popular Buddhist Texts from Nepal

Drawing on textual and anthropological research, this book demonstrates how popular ritual texts and stories have shaped the religion and culture of the only surviving Mahayana Buddhist society, the Newars of Kathmandu.

Imaginary Christs

Discusses the issue of christological pluralism--the panoply of competing visions of Christ that exist today--and provides criteria for evaluating these.

Transpersonal Knowing

The freshest and most respected thinkers in transpersonal psychology explore the myriad pathways to knowledge.

The Church as Counterculture

Explores a new Christian identity in which churches reclaim their roles as communities of disciples to constitute a countercultural reality and challenge to secular society and existing power relations.

The Kinneavy Papers

Award-winning essays in the field of rhetoric and composition.

Toward a Contemporary Understanding of Pure Land Buddhism

Explores the potential significance of Japanese Pure Land Buddhist Thought in the contemporary world, and provides a new model of interreligious dialogue as Buddhist thinkers engage with Christian theologians concerned with the present-day significance of their own tradition.

Discussions of Simone Weil

A distinguished discussion of Weil's views on social philosophy, science, ethics, and religion.

Over the Wall

Discusses the relationship between the secularization of American society and Supreme Court decisions regarding the separation of church and state and offers a judicial alternative.

The Craft of a Chinese Commentator

A systematic study of Wang Bi's (226-249) commentary on the Laozi, this book provides the first systematic study of a Chinese commentator's scholarly craft and introduces a highly sophisticated Chinese way of reading the Taoist classic, one that differs greatly from Western interpretations.

Formative Judaism

Examines the history, philosophy and hermeneutics, and law and literature of formative Judaism.

The Stilling of the Storm

Explores early Palestinian Judaic traditions.

Jesus' Teaching on Repentance

Based on a close reading of New Testament passages, Choi counters the theses on repentance and restitution proposed by New Testament scholar E. P. Sanders.

Religion and Economics

New perspectives on the bond between religion and economics.

Insediamenti Francescani in Abruzzo nel Duecento e Sviluppo nel '300 e 400 con la Riforma Osservante

Analyzes the early presence of Franciscan monastic houses in Abruzzo in the thirteenth century.

Mediterranean Perspectives

Edited by Robert M. Berchman
Subjects: Philosophy

Characterize several lines of intellectual development by which some of the fundamental features of ancient, medieval, and modern pictures of God, Nature, Beauty, the State, and the Self came to be accepted as common knowledge in the Mediterranean world today.

On the Concept of Religion

Edited by Ernst Feil
Translated by Brian McNeil
Subjects: Religion And Spirituality

Explores what is meant by the concept of religion.

The Presence of the Word

The thirty-fourth volume published on this foundation.

Everybody's Story

This exhilarating tale of natural history illuminates the evolution of matter, life, and consciousness. In Everybody’s Story, Loyal Rue finds the means for global solidarity and cooperation in the shared story of humanity.

Biblical Parables and Their Modern Re-creations

Offers a penetrating cross-cultural analysis of the enduring genre of parables, revealing a dramatic social, cultural, and political shift in the way we view the divine.

Acts of Arguing

Approaches recent innovations in argumentation theory from a primarily rhetorical perspective.

Reading Emptiness

Concludes that the closest thing in Western culture to the Middle Way of Buddhism is not any sort of theory or philosophy, but the practice of literature.

Reinventing the Wheel

Suggests that certain Buddhist notions may act as an antidote to the adverse effects of high-tech media.

Awakening to Spirit

Explores the concept of Spirit in the postmodern age.

Imagining Boundaries

Explores the shifting terrain of Confucianism in Chinese history.

Reclaiming the Spiritual in Art

Examines the role of the sacred in art and makes a compelling case for its continued contemporary relevance.

Rediscovering God with Transcendental Argument

Provides a comparative philosophical study of the thought of the two principle theorists of monistic Kashmiri Shaivism, Utpaladeva and Abhinavagupta, and also formulates a conception of the nature of philosophy as a means of intercultural and interreligious dialogue.

Paradise and Paradigm

Comparing paradise imagery in two Persian religions, early Syriac Christianity and the Baha'i Faith, this work contributes to religious studies methodology by introducing "symbolic paradigm analysis. "

Buddhist Women Across Cultures

Illuminates the lives and thought of women in Buddhist cultures, integrating them more fully into the feminist conversation.

Re Visioning Composition Textbooks

Explores the cultures, ideologies, traditions, and the material and political conditions that influence the writing and publishing of textbooks.

The Place of the Psalms in the Intellectual Culture of the Middle Ages

Surveys the influence of the Psalms in the Middle Ages, giving a unique window into the intellectual, spiritual, and emotional culture of the period.

Mystical Moments and Unitive Thinking

Provides an alternative to the traditional psychoanalytic explanation of mystical experience by viewing unitive thinking as a line of cognitive development and mystical moments as creative inspirations on unitive ideas.

Ibn al-ʿArabi in the Later Islamic Tradition

Examines the fierce controversy over the legacy of Ibn 'Arabi, the great Islamic mystic.

Dialogue Between an Orthodox and a Barlaamite

Explores a fourteenth-century debate over man’s knowledge of God.

Feminism and World Religions

CHOICE 1999 Outstanding Academic Books

Addressing religion and feminism on a global scale, this unprecedented book contains a nuanced and fine-tuned treatment of seven of the world's religions from a feminist ...

The Integrity of the Yoga Darśana

Maintains that the Yoga-Sutras do not advocate abandonment of the world, but rather support a stance that enables one to live more fully in the world without being enslaved by worldly identification.

Ecological Education in Action

Celebrates the work of educators who explore ecological issues in school and non-school settings. Gives examples of ways to impact the thinking of children and adults in order to affirm the values of sufficiency, mutual support, and community.

Trithemius and Magical Theology

An examination of Trithemius's "magical theology," which argued for the compatibility of magic and Christian doctrines, and its influence during the Renaissance and Reformation.

Three Faces of God

A fresh interpretation of the work of Emile Durkheim, which argues that in addition to being a pioneer in sociological theory and research, Durkheim was also a major social philosopher concerned with religion, metaphysics, and knowledge.

The Last Conceptual Revolution

A critique of Rorty's own provocative political philosophy, as well as an in-depth look at both the issues concerning the relationship between the public and the private, and arguments on the role of reason in liberal political discourse generally.

The Religious Spiritual, and the Secular

An account of the city of Auroville, the vision of founder and well-known guru Sri Aurobindo. Auroville's eventual takeover and the promotion of its goals by the Indian government leads to a thought-provoking discussion of the meaning of "secularism" in India.

Community, Violence, and Peace

Replaces communal altruism with communal egoism as a way of solving problems of too much violence and too little peace in the twenty-first century.

Purifying the Earthly Body of God

An interdisciplinary exploration of the relationship between religion and environment in Hinduism.

Jīvanmukti in Transformation

Examines the Hindu concept of liberation while living from the perspective of the Advaita Vedanta school from the Upanisads to modern times.

Solidarity and Suffering

Developing a concept of justice as solidarity, this work addresses a range of urgent social issues--from the meaning of human rights and the character of corporate governance to the resolution of social conflict and the moral status of the environment.

Traditional and Modern Approaches to the Environment on the Pacific Rim

Edited by Harold Coward
Foreword by Maurice Strong
Subjects: Religion And Spirituality

An interdisciplinary exploration of the tension between traditional and modern approaches to the environment in Pacific Rim countries.

Buddhist Fundamentalism and Minority Identities in Sri Lanka

This examination of Sri Lanka's ethnic and religious minorities links the past with the present through a treatment of Sinhala-Buddhist fundamentalist development in the late nineteenth century and its hegemony in the late twentieth.

The Construction of Orthodoxy and Heresy

Presents the first systematic and cross-cultural examination of ideas of orthodoxy and heresy in a group of major religious traditions.

Lao-tzu and the Tao-te-ching

Examines the traditional and modern Western interpretations of the Tao-te-ching, and its author, Lao-tzu.

A Comparative History of World Philosophy

Breaks through the cultural barriers between Western, Indian, and Chinese philosophy and demonstrates that despite considerable differences between these three great philosophical traditions, there are fundamental resemblances in their abstract principles.

Pragmatic Theology

Argues that while contemporary American philosophies and philosophers of religion are proclaiming the end of theology, a neopragmatism has arrived to fill the void in meaning and moral fulfillment to which theology once supplied answers.

The History of al-Ṭabarī Vol. 39

This is biographical material that al-T'abari appended to his History, bringing together biographies of Companions and successors of the Prophet. Many chapters are devoted to women who played a role in the transmission of knowledge.

Ethics for a Small Planet

A radical new look at the religious, economic, and political roots of terracide and how things can change for the better.

Women Mystics Confront the Modern World

Situates the female mystical tradition within the context of the epistemological shift which occurred at the dawn of the modern world.

Fidelity with Plausibility

The task of interpreting the religious significance of Jesus Christ takes shape in this book with the tension determined by two goals: fidelity to the classical Christological tradition, which draws our ...

The Self-Disclosure of God

Explicates the cosmology of Ibn al-'Arabi, the greatest mystical thinker of Islamic civilization.

Guide to the Bible

An accessible introduction to the Bible.

Shailer Mathews's Lives of Jesus

Reappraises the work of Shailer Mathews, a leading but long-neglected theologian of the social gospel movement whose work prefigures contemporary liberation theologies.

The Artful Universe

Provides an accessible introduction to the Vedic religious world by focusing on the role of divine and human imagination in sacred texts.

Gnosis and Hermeticism from Antiquity to Modern Times

Traces the historical development of Western Esotericism--religious traditions which emphasize the importance of inner enlightenment or gnosis.

Pulpit Politics

Discusses the manner in which nationalistic expression forged a new religious relevance to the American experience and the extent to which these diverse styles of religious nationalism created and reflected tension in twentieth-century America.

Exploring Unseen Worlds

Demonstrates convincingly the extent to which James's psychological and philosophical perspectives also continue to be a rich resource for those specifically interested in the study of mysticism. A critically-sophisticated, yet gripping, immersion into the inner worlds of one of America's foremost thinkers.

The Contemporary Jesus

Integrates a contemporary understanding of Jesus with the most powerful, imaginative visions of Jesus in philosophy, literature, and religion.

The Only Tradition

Examines the first principles of the perennial philosophy or ancient wisdom tradition as expressed in the writings of its great exponents, Rene Guenon and Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, and offers a critique of the West from the standpoint of traditional principles.

Recognizing Reality

Examines the central ideas of Dharmakirti, one of the most important Indian Buddhist philosophers and their reception by Tibetan thinkers.

Textual Bodies

Illustrates changing definitions of bodily limits, integrity, transgression, sexuality, and violation in the history of the Western canon.

Reflection on Whitehead's Philosophical Theology

Explores the philosophical theology of Alfred North Whitehead.

Thomas Aquinas's Earliest Treatment of the Divine Essence

Thomas Aquinas’s earliest major treatment of God’s simplicity.

Florence Nightingale in Egypt and Greece

A remarkable spiritual testimony, this complete transcription of Florence Nightingale's hitherto-unpublished diary (recorded during visits to Egypt and Greece in 1850) reveals the troubled period during which she finally realized that the answer to her call from God lay in service to humanity.

Negation, Subjectivity, and The History of Rhetoric

Examines the principles of historiography that are generally applied to writing what we call "The History of Rhetoric." Focusing on the Sophists Gorgias and Isocrates, and on how each has been received and refigured by historians, the book moves beyond these approaches to postmodernist ones.

The Pheasant Cap Master (He guan zi)

This first book-length study in English explores the long neglected ancient Chinese treatise: the Pheasant Cap Master or He guan zi (3rd century B.C.).

Holy Men and Holy Women

This is a collection of essays on the literature of "saints' lives" in Anglo-Saxon literature.

Critical Reflections on the Paranormal

Collection of essays that clarifies and evaluates the various aspects of paranormal phenomena, including telepathy, psychokinesis, trance-mediumship, near-death experiences and past-life memories.

The Johannine World

Argues that the Fourth Gospel has “political dimensions” which offer both meaning and challenge to contemporary Christians.

Because It Gives Me Peace of Mind

Explores the history and nature of vrats (ritual fasts) in text and practice, and the roles these rites play in the lives of Hindu women in North India.

Liberating Intimacy

Liberating Intimacy dramatically reevaluates the teachings and practice of Ch'an Buddhism. Considering Buddha's insight that everything is empty or absent of a permanent and independent "self nature," ...

Applying the Canon in Islam

Argues how the notion of "canon" is used to authorize and maintain certain types of interpretive reasoning and the social institutions that employ them.