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From Modernity to Cosmodernity
(March 2014)
Science, Culture, and Spirituality
Basarab Nicolescu - Author
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Offers a new paradigm of reality, based on the interaction between science, culture, spirituality, religion, and society.
The quantum, biological, and information revolutions of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries should have thoroughly changed our view of reality, yet, the old viewpoint based on classical science remains dominant, reinforcing a notion of a rational, mechanistic world that allows for endless progress. In pra...(Read More) |
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Tough Love
(February 2014)
Sexuality, Compassion, and the Christian Right
Cynthia Burack - Author
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The World's Great Wisdom
(January 2014)
Timeless Teachings from Religions and Philosophies
Roger Walsh - Editor
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Surveying spiritual and philosophical traditions, this volume revives the search for wisdom for modern times.
What is wisdom and how is it cultivated? These are among the most important questions we can ask, but questions that have been routinely ignored in modern times. In the twentieth century, the search for wisdom was replaced by a search for knowledge as science and technology promised answers to life’s ills. However, ...(Read More) |
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The Study of Judaism
(December 2013)
Authenticity, Identity, Scholarship
Aaron W. Hughes - Author
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Considers Jewish studies as an academic discipline from its origins to the present.
The relationship between Jewish studies and religious studies is a long and complicated one, full of tensions and possibilities. Whereas the majority of scholars working within Jewish studies contend that the discipline is in a very healthy state, many who work in theory and method in religious studies disagree. For them, Jewish studies represents...(Read More) |
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Ultimates
(December 2013)
Philosophical Theology, Volume One
Robert Cummings Neville - Author
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A new theology of ultimate realities and a new theory of religion to back it up addressed to believers, unbelievers, and scholars of all traditions.
Robert Cummings Neville offers a new theology of the ultimate and a new theory of religion to back it up. The first volume in a trilogy, this book and companion volumes treating existence and religion advance a systematic philosophical theology to address first-order questions found in...(Read More) |
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Auden's O
(November 2013)
The Loss of One's Sovereignty in the Making of Nothing
Andrew W. Hass - Author
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Explores the rise of the idea of nothing in Western modernity and how its figuration is transforming and offering new possibilities.
In this groundbreaking, interdisciplinary history of ideas, Andrew W. Hass explores the ascendency of the concept of nothing into late modernity. He argues that the rise of the reality of nothing in religion, philosophy, and literature has taken place only against the decline of the concept of One: ...(Read More) |
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Conceiving Identities
(November 2013)
Maternity in Medieval Muslim Discourse and Practice
Kathryn M. Kueny - Author
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Explores how medieval Muslim theologians constructed a female gender identity based on an ideal of maternity and how women contested it.
Conceiving Identities explores how medieval Muslim theologians appropriate a woman’s reproductive power to construct a female gender identity in which maternity is a central component. Through a close analysis of seventh- through fourteenth-century exegetical works, medical treati...(Read More) |
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Homegrown Gurus
(November 2013)
From Hinduism in America to American Hinduism
Ann Gleig - Editor
Lola Williamson - Editor
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Exploring homegrown movements and figures, proclaims “American Hinduism” as a distinct religious tradition.
Today, a new stage in the development of Hinduism in America is taking shape. After a century of experimentation during which Americans welcomed Indian gurus who adjusted their teachings to accommodate the New World context, “American Hinduism” can now rightly be called its own tradition rather than ...(Read More) |
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The Hidden Lives of Brahman
(November 2013)
Sankara's Vedanta through His Upanisad Commentaries, in Light of Contemporary Practice
Joël André-Michel Dubois - Author
Christopher Key Chapple - Foreword by
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Uses both textual and ethnographic sources to demonstrate that in Śaṅkara’s vedānta, brahman is an active force as well as a transcendent ultimate.
Śaṅkara’s thought, advaita vedānta or non-dual vedānta, is a tradition focused on brahman, the ultimate reality transcending all particular manifestations, words, and ideas. It is generally considered that the transcendent brahman ca...(Read More) |
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