Explores the significance of levity and humor in South Asian religious traditions.

A survey of Western esoteric currents since late antiquity, with an emphasis on the last six centuries.

Explores the unacknowledged psychological element in Maimonides’ work, one which prefigures the latter insights of Freud.

A philosophical consideration of key religious issues from a pragmatist’s perspective.

Explores the milieu of Taiwan’s Buddhist nuns, who have the greatest numbers in the Buddhist world and a prominent place in their own country.

Explores a range of Buddhist perspectives in a distinctly American context.

An introduction to the Zohar, the crowning work of medieval Kabbalah. Includes original translations and analysis.

An overview of Korean Buddhism and its major figures in the modern period.

The diary of Mircea Eliade, the seminal thinker on religion, during the period he served as a diplomat in Portugal.

A comprehensive look at the life and work of one of the towering figures of Renaissance mysticism.

A wide-ranging, readable account of the Theravada Buddhist thought and practice in the Southeast Asian societies of Thailand, Myanmar (Burma), Laos, Cambodia, and Sri Lanka.

A history of the Sandemanians, a little-known but ultimately influential Christian sect in colonial America.

Explores Xunzi's thought in relation to the early Chinese philosophical context that relied on the natural world.

Examines the Jewish philosopher’s influence on theology, philosophy, medicine, and law, and his impact on later thinkers.

Reconciles the conflict between these two seemingly diverse traditions.

Brings an ecotheological perspective to postmodern gift theory.

An engagement between Confucianism and the philosophy of Richard Rorty.

Looks at Buddhist influences in American literature and how literature has shaped the reception of Buddhism in North America.

Perspectives on genetically modified foods from world religions and indigenous traditions.

Reveals the sophisticated design of Rumī’s Mathnawī, showing that this seemingly unstructured work both describes and functions as spiritual training.

Translations of two works from Sri Lanka on Yasodharā, the wife of the Buddha—an allusive and intriguing figure in Buddhist lore and literature.

Explores the relationship between material prosperity and spirituality in contemporary Thai Buddhism.

Essays from the singular experience of Buddhist social critic and philosopher David R. Loy on classic and contemporary concerns.

Traces the roots of logos in different cultural milieux.

Looks at perceptions of the miraculous in a variety of contemporary South Asian religious traditions-Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, and Christianity.