Religion and Spirituality
Changing Religious Worlds
Assesses Mircea Eliade's contribution to the contemporary understanding of religion and the academic study of religion.
The Human Condition
Explores the human condition in a range of world religions and discusses the issue and philosophical implications of comparison itself.
Dark Light
Reveals the effects of the cultural unconscious or "world soul" in human experience.
Songs of the Saints from the Adi Granth
An accessible translation of the songs of the saints from the Adi Granth, the Sikh holy book.
Identifying Selfhood
Traces the decentered formulation of self at the heart of Paul Ricoeur's philosophy from his earliest works to his most recent.
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.
Filled with Spirit and Power
Explores the many factors shaping the level of political involvement displayed by urban Protestant clergy.
The Concept of Bodhicitta in Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra
An examination of bodhicitta, a key concept in Mahauyauna Buddhism.
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.
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.
On the Concept of Religion
Explores what is meant by the concept of religion.
The Stilling of the Storm
Explores early Palestinian Judaic traditions.
The Presence of the Word
The thirty-fourth volume published on this foundation.
The Emergence of the Christian Basilica in the Fourth Century
Explores why the Christian basilica emerged.
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.
Religion and Economics
New perspectives on the bond between religion and economics.
Mediterranean Perspectives
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.
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.
Acts of Arguing
Approaches recent innovations in argumentation theory from a primarily rhetorical perspective.
Wisdom's Children
Provides an in-depth introduction to the Christian theosophic tradition that began with Jacob Bo¬hme, bringing us into a startling new world of Christian experiential spirituality that is the Christian equivalent of Sufism and Kabbalism.
One-Sided Arguments
A practical manual for evaluating bias that will be useful to anyone who has to deal with arguments, whether in academic reading or writing, or in everyday conversation.
Awakening to Spirit
Explores the concept of Spirit in the postmodern age.
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.
René Daumal
Demonstrates how Rene Daumal, author of Mount Analogue, (a study of Hindu philosophy and poetics) and the teaching of G. I. Gurdjieff combined with Daumal's early surrealist tendencies in determining the quality of his writing.
The Sūtra of Perfect Enlightenment
A concise guide to the key practice systems of the East Asian Meditational schools Ch'an, Son, and Zen.
She Comes to Take Her Rights
Examines the contemporary workings of property law in India through the lives and thoughts of middle-class and poor women.
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.
Race, Rhetoric, and the Postcolonial
Six internationally renowned intellectuals are brought together in a cross-disciplinary dialogue that addresses rhetoric, writing, race, feminist theory, cultural studies, and postcolonial theory.
An Introduction to the Kabbalah
Provides an introduction to the world of the Kabbalah, focusing on both the Kabbalist as a person and the major teachings of the Kabbalah.
Dialogue Between an Orthodox and a Barlaamite
Explores a fourteenth-century debate over man’s knowledge of God.
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.
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 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.
Purifying the Earthly Body of God
An interdisciplinary exploration of the relationship between religion and environment in Hinduism.
The The Devī Gītā
This translation and commentary on an important Hindu text on the Great Goddess envisions a universe created and protected by a compassionate female deity.
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.
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.
The Cosmic Game
In this, his culminating work, the leading international figure in consciousness research masterfully synthesizes his vast findings, drawing not only upon psychedelic therapy and Holotropic Breathwork, ...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Sinners, Lovers, and Heroes
This intriguing investigation of an historically embedded cultural struggle over the possession of America's "collective memory" has significant implications for how we interpret cultural conflict in past, present, and future America.
New Age Religion and Western Culture
Presents the first systematic analysis of the structure and beliefs of the New Age movement, and the historical emergence of "New Age" as a secularized version of Western esoteric traditions.
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.
Compelling Knowledge
Asks what sorts and sources of knowing we should consider compelling as we seek to live morally responsible lives. Contends that Martin Luther's theology of the cross provides a solid theological and ethical basis for a surprisingly congenial conversation with feminist thought and scholarship on these issues.
Interpreting Amida
Examines the history of Japanese Pure Land Buddhism and how orientalist assumptions have caused the West to ignore this important tradition.
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.
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.).
Analytic Theism, Hartshorne, and the Concept of God
Initiates and continues a dialogue regarding the concept of God in the neoclassical philosophy of Charles Hartshorne and that found in analytic philosophers who adhere to classical theism.
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.
Embracing Illusion
Embracing Illusion is an interdisciplinary study of a classic Korean novel. It argues that a work of narrative fiction can be taken seriously as Buddhist philosophical discourse. The capacity of fiction ...
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.
Living Liberation in Hindu Thought
This book is about the state of embodied perfection often called enlightenment, self-realization, or liberation. It examines the types, degrees, and stages of liberation that are possible, with and without a body.
Holiness in Words
A strategy for reading Heschel's major works, as well as a new route to understanding religious writing in general: a lucid study of modern religious and ethical thought using literary criticism.
Praises to a Formless God
Discusses and translates important compositions by famous Nirguni poets--poets dedicated to the worship of a formless God.
Religious and Social Ritual
Examines particular rituals (social and religious) as a special kind of cultural performance or interaction in a wide variety of traditions and locations.
For God and Fatherland
This analysis of the crises in church-state relations in Argentina over the last 100 years shows that the constitutionally-established Catholic Church was progressively disenfranchised by various governments and responded by struggling to maintain the institution’s historic rights and privileges and to speak as the moral conscience of Argentina
Women Struggling For a New Life
Kim explores the religious impact, particularly that of the Korean Methodist Church, on the lives of Korean immigrant ilse (first generation) in the United States. To most of these women, America is new ...
Intellectual Origins of Islamic Resurgence in the Modern Arab World
A systematic treatment of the religious, intellectual, cultural, and social foundations of the Islamic resurgence in the modern Arab world that is grounded in the larger context of Arab and Islamic intellectual history.
A Rivalry of Genius
Compares Rabbinic midrash and Patristic exegesis in late antiquity and provides an introduction to the various forms of Patristic literature.
The Wiles of Women/The Wiles of Men
Focusing on gender issues, this book compares and contrasts the treatment of the Potiphar's Wife motif--in which a woman makes vain overtures to a man and then accuses him of attempting to force himself upon her--in ancient Near Eastern, Jewish, and Islamic folklore.
The Throne Carrier of God
This book constitutes a comprehensive investigation of the life and teachings of one of the most famous Sufis of the Iranian world. Simnānī spent his early life as a courtier at the Ilkhanid Mongol ...
Initiates of Theosophical Masters
Examines the careers of the most distinguishes disciples of the Theosophical Masters profiled in The Masters Revealed, including George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff, Alexandra David-Neel, Anagarika Dharmapala, and Isabelle Eberhardt.
America's Alternative Religions
This is a source of reliable information on the most important new and alternative religions covering history, theology, impact on the culture, and current status. It includes a chapter on the Branch Davidians.
The Spiritual Writings of Amir 'Abd al-Kader
A selection of writings by a great nineteenth-century Sufi Shaikh in the direct lineage of Ibn 'Arabi.
Religion and Spirituality
Through the skillful use of a great variety of literary genres, this book explores the intimate relation and tension between religion and spirituality, evoking a wide range of responses that may awaken ...
Circle in the Square
This book deals with the issue of gender in Jewish mysticism showing the thematic correlation of eroticism and esotericism that is central to the kabbalah.
The History of al-Ṭabarī Vol. 28
The initial years (126-145) of al-Manṣūr's reign presented several significant challenges to nascent ʿAbbāsid hegemony, and the resulting confrontations constitute the central focus of this section ...
The Brotherhood of the Common Life and Its Influence
This book presents a lost tradition of inner work, the way of the householder, which was believed by the Brotherhood of Common Life to have been the teaching of the Apostles. It focuses on the emergence, ...
Death, Ecstasy, and Other Worldly Journeys
This is a psychological and historical exploration of belief in a spirit world, imperceptible to the senses, as a pervasive and deeply-rooted characteristic of religion.
A Word Fitly Spoken
This book compares New Testament and Rabbinical texts in order to recover the oral tradition accompanying the written Biblical text. Although New Testament Greek is a hellenistic idiom, it reflects a ...
Before Revelation
Studies the development of Muslim jurisprudential and theological thought by analyzing the dispute that raged from the ninth to the nineteenth century over the assessment of acts that took place before the Qur'anic Revelation.
India's Agony Over Religion
Presents the contemporary religious crisis in India, providing historical perspective and focusing on the crises in Punjab, Kashmir, and Ayodhya.
The Spirits are Drunk
This is a comparative treatment of the religious beliefs and practices of Chinese traditional culture.
Hasidism
Approaches Hasidism as an important stage in Jewish mysticism, rather than as a mere reaction to or result of historical and social forces.
The Redemption of Tragedy
Simone Weil's supernaturalist interpretations of tragedy challenge not only the philosophical skepticism but also the religious rationalism characteristic of the modern age.
This book boldly points out ...
Self Realization in Kashmir Shaivism
This book presents the oral teachings of the twentieth century's great Kashmir Shaivite master. The last of his long lineage, Swami Lakshmanjoo preserved, as did his predecessors, the oral knowledge that ...
Emotions in Asian Thought
Treats the nature and ethical significance of emotions from a comparative cultural perspective emphasizing Asian traditions.
Access to Western Esotericism
This is the first systematic treatment of esotericism to appear in English. Here is also a historical survey, beginning with the Alexandrean Period, of the various esoteric currents such as Christian ...