Religion
The Asymptote of Love
Discusses the complexities and paradoxes of love as represented in the history of Western philosophy and Christianity.
Nine Nights of the Goddess
Explores the contemporary nature and the diverse narratives, rituals, and performances of the Navarātri Festival.
Liminal Sovereignty
Uses cultural representations to investigate how two religious minority communities came to be incorporated into the Mexican nation.
The Manifest and the Revealed
Offers a new phenomenological method for biblical interpretation that opens up the possibility of an absolute science of scripture.
Defining Religion
Provides a new orientation to philosophy of religion and a new theory of how religion ought to be defined.
Mystery 101
Delineates the knowable from the unknowable in philosophy, science, and theology.
The Holocaust and the Nonrepresentable
Argues that Holocaust representation has ethical implications fundamentally linked to questions of good and evil.
Ritual Innovation
Challenges prevailing conceptions of what religious ritual does and how it achieves its ends.
Immanent Frames
Explores a growing number of films and filmmakers that challenge the strict boundaries between belief and unbelief.
Anthropology and Civilizational Analysis
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.
The Split God
Offers a critical Pentecostal philosophy of God that challenges orthodox Christianity.
Reconfigurations of Philosophy of Religion
Explores the place and meaning of philosophy of religion in our current poststructuralist, postsecular, postcolonialist context.
The Tragedy of Optimism
Complete collection of Schwarzschild’s essays on the neo-Kantian Jewish philosopher Hermann Cohen.
The Greatest Mirror
A wide-ranging analysis of heavenly twin imagery in early Jewish extrabiblical texts.
Cambodian Buddhism in the United States
The first comprehensive anthropological description of the Khmer Buddhism practiced by Cambodian refugees in the United States over the past four decades.
The Quest for Purpose
Demonstrates how students and educators can resist narrow, utilitarian views of higher education’s purpose.
Religious Agrarianism and the Return of Place
Examines religious communities as advocates of environmental stewardship and sustainable agriculture practices.
Journey of a Goddess
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.
Alan Watts - In the Academy
Explores language and mysticism, Buddhism and Zen, Christianity, comparative religion, psychedelics, and psychology and psychotherapy.
Walāyah in the Fāṭimid Ismāʿīlī Tradition
Explores the relationship between revelation and reason in medieval Islamic intellectual history.
Satan and Apocalypse
Offers a profound vision of the Christian epic as the site of the modern apocalyptic reenactment of the original apocalypse.
The Intersubjective Turn
Examines key theoretical aspects of the emerging field of second-person contemplative education.
Lessing and the Enlightenment
A comprehensive study of Lessing’s religious thought.
Vernacular Catholicism, Vernacular Saints
A collection of Raj’s groundbreaking ethnographic studies of “vernacular” Catholic traditions in Tamil Nadu, India.
Movies and Midrash
Brings popular cinema and Jewish religious texts into a meaningful dialogue.