Explores the use of language in Christian theology.

Reconsiders whether Hinduism can be considered a missionary religion.

A wide-ranging exploration of traditional Chinese views of mortality.

New attention and fresh perspectives on the classic, but neglected, text of Daoism, the Liezi.

Explores the roles of Korean Buddhist nuns and laywomen from the Koryo period to the present.

Argues that morals and politics require on a metaphysical backing and proposes a neoclassical metaphysics.

Revives the concept of Soul, urging an understanding of Soul as expression.

An annotated translation of an essential work of twentieth-century Tibetan Buddhist thought, one that explicates teachings on the Middle Way.

Explores the mutually dependent relationship of faith and reason in human life and human knowledge.

A ground-breaking book on using meditation in education and how it can enhance teaching and learning.

Essays describe Italian philosopher Gianni Vattimo’s unique and radical hermeneutic philosophy.

The development of early Islamic mysticism and metaphysics is presented through the life and work of theologian Abu Bakr al-Wasiti.

A wide-ranging consideration of Confucianism for Western readers.

An exploration of Chinese during a time of monumental change, the period after the fall of the Han dynasty.

Argues that philosophy, as multidisciplinary comparative inquiry, is essential to the contemporary academic study of religion.

A consideration of Confucian ethics as a living ethical tradition with contemporary relevance.

Looks at how ecotheology has created a new vision of the natural world and the place of humans within it.

A multi-faceted portrait of Lakshmi, Hindu goddess of wealth and prosperity. Includes translations of verses used to invoke this goddess.

Analyzes the way in which Austen blends ironic criticism with moral affirmation through her complex and little-understood management of the narrative point of view.

Enlightening encounters with the world's religions from a Hindu perspective.

Challenges readers to reconsider the moral standing of plants.

Explores the concept of the Limit (barzakh), which the great Sufi mystic Ibn al-'Arabi used to address the philosophical controversy regarding God's relationship with the world.

The essential guide on how to teach about dreaming.

Recovers Walt Whitman as a self-conscious religious figure with an ethic based in male comradeship, one at odds with the temper of his times.

An exploration and translation of the work of Hindu poet-saint Kāraikkāl Ammaiyār.