Analyzes how White American mainline Protestants used the internal musical controversies of the turn-of-the-millennium Worship Wars to negotiate their shifting position within the nation's diversifying religious and sociopolitical ecosystems.

Argues that the path to the good life does not consist in working toward some abstract concept of the good, but rather by ameliorating the problems of the practices and institutions that make up our practical life.

Explores how concepts of sex in heaven can inform Christian sexual ethics in ways that challenge traditional norms and open new possibilities.

Explores distinctions between the sacred and the secular in a variety of religious traditions, and proposes ways in which their relationship can be mutually beneficial.

An up-to-date examination of the work of one of the most inventive thinkers in the study of religion.

Challenges and reimagines transnational feminism by analyzing the concept of ummah, or community, in Muslim women's writing.

A comprehensive, concise, and easy-to-read introduction intended for undergraduates and general readers interested in the study of mysticism.

Explores the rich diversity of narratives, rituals, and participants connected with one of the most important celebrations for Hindus in South Asia and in the diaspora.

Explores how a folk ballad in southern India transforms the landscape and embeds the deities that are its subject within the social worlds of their devotees.

The first book-length examination of the prominent contemporary philosopher William Desmond's approach to aesthetics, art, and literature.

Develops a creative and provocative new model of God that brings together insights from both process theology and ground-of-being theology.

A cross-case analysis of fifteen faith communities striving to care for the earth and live more sustainably.

Examines representations of religion in Mexican film from the Golden Age to the early twenty-first century.

An in-depth, ethnographic study of the transnational expansion of Santo Daime, a mystical religious tradition organized around sacramental ingestion of the mind-altering ayahuasca beverage.

Building on Jean-Luc Marion’s phenomenology of love this book takes up the “question of the Other” and argues that through the interpretive activities of the amorous imagination lovers come to experience one another as the Beloved.

A close study of one of the most prolific commentary writers in Islamic history.

Evaluates religious naturalists’ attempts to find a middle path between supernaturalism and atheistic secularism, and explores naturalistic, theistic, and panpsychist solutions.

Examines the key role of a hagiographer within a charismatic religious movement.

Draws on philosophy, economics, theology, and psychoanalytic theory to reveal a fundamental dynamic of capitalism.

Explores the interplay of religion and food in Native American cultures.

Shows that pragmatic historicism is a significant intellectual tradition in the history of American religious and philosophical thought.

Explores the relationship between literature and philosophy in classical and contemporary Buddhist texts.

Examines the role that images of Palestine played in the construction of prewar Jewish American identity.

The first in-depth study of the All World Gayatri Pariwar, a modern Indian religious movement.

Broadens the parameters of religious studies by accounting for material acts that help shape religious worlds.