Challenges standard views of the origins of the Daodejing, revealing the work’s roots in a tradition of physical cultivation.

A wide-ranging analysis of the Mokṣopāya, the Indian literary classic that teaches through storytelling how to enjoy an active, successful, worldly life in a spiritually enlightened way.

A reconsideration of Zhu Xi, known as the “great synthesizer” of Confucianism, which establishes him as an important thinker in his own right.

Four Warring States texts discovered during recent decades challenge longstanding understandings of Chinese intellectual history.

Examines a fascinating and important figure in the history of modern Jewish ethics.

Presents new ways of thinking about the human and the humanities through a rethinking of Antigone.

Describes how religious tradition is established as available within a text, free from ritual and observance, in Buddhism and Christianity.

An overview of Daoist texts on passive meditation from the Latter Han through Tang periods.

Provides a metaphysical outlook for religious naturalism.

Explores democracy with religious freedom and its dependence on theism.

Presents multifaceted aspects of Asian Muslim women’s lives and agencies.

Explores whether consciousness-based practices like meditation and prayer can contribute to social change.

An anthology of primary texts on meditation and contemplative prayer from a wide range of religious traditions.

The frank and funny story of a church-geek girl who spent twenty years in the ecclesiastical trenches as a Lutheran pastor, preaching weekly words of hope she wasn’t sure she even believed.

The concluding volume in a trilogy advancing a systematic philosophical theology, this book presents a plausible sacred worldview for religious participation.

Discusses the journey of Buddhist ideas on awareness and personhood from India to China.

Explores the paradoxical symmetry between the divine and demonic in early Jewish mystical texts.

A reconsideration of the Confucian concept li (ritual or ritual propriety), one that references Western philosophers as well as the Chinese context.

Thorough exploration of the distinct culture of the Mappila Muslims of Kerala, India.

Explores facets of North American Buddhism while taking into account the impact of globalization and increasing interconnectivity.

Explores occultism in the writings of four authors who were members of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.

Discusses how William James’s work suggests a world without will, self, or time and how research supports this perspective.

Reveals the triumphs and struggles of contemporary Christian congregations to express female imagery of God in worship.

Explores the resources for contemporary ethics found in the work of the Cheng brothers, canonical neo-Confucian philophers.