Discusses the complexities and paradoxes of love as represented in the history of Western philosophy and Christianity.

Uses cultural representations to investigate how two religious minority communities came to be incorporated into the Mexican nation.

Argues that Jewish writers used depictions of Jews as animals to question prevalent notions of Jewish identity.

Offers a new phenomenological method for biblical interpretation that opens up the possibility of an absolute science of scripture.

Explores the place and meaning of philosophy of religion in our current poststructuralist, postsecular, postcolonialist context.

Complete collection of Schwarzschild’s essays on the neo-Kantian Jewish philosopher Hermann Cohen.

This volume brings social and cultural anthropologists into dialogue with historical sociology and illustrates the continued potential of the concept of civilization for all participants.

Challenges prevailing conceptions of what religious ritual does and how it achieves its ends.

Delineates the knowable from the unknowable in philosophy, science, and theology.

Offers a critical Pentecostal philosophy of God that challenges orthodox Christianity.

Explores a growing number of films and filmmakers that challenge the strict boundaries between belief and unbelief.

Provides a new orientation to philosophy of religion and a new theory of how religion ought to be defined.

Argues that Holocaust representation has ethical implications fundamentally linked to questions of good and evil.

A wide-ranging analysis of heavenly twin imagery in early Jewish extrabiblical texts.

The first comprehensive anthropological description of the Khmer Buddhism practiced by Cambodian refugees in the United States over the past four decades.

Offers a profound vision of the Christian epic as the site of the modern apocalyptic reenactment of the original apocalypse.

Explores the relationship between revelation and reason in medieval Islamic intellectual history.

Explores language and mysticism, Buddhism and Zen, Christianity, comparative religion, psychedelics, and psychology and psychotherapy.

Demonstrates how students and educators can resist narrow, utilitarian views of higher education’s purpose.

First English translations of a novel and two play excerpts based on tales of the goddess Chen Jinggu, an eighth-century shaman and present-day cult deity.

Examines religious communities as advocates of environmental stewardship and sustainable agriculture practices.

Examines key theoretical aspects of the emerging field of second-person contemplative education.

A comprehensive study of Lessing’s religious thought.

First work to address the legacy of Wilfred Cantwell Smith and his influence on the development of religious studies and Islamic studies in the twentieth century.

Offers a novel exploration of the relationship between religion and the state in Israel.