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

Explores the contemporary nature and the diverse narratives, rituals, and performances of the Navarātri Festival.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

A comprehensive study of Lessing’s religious thought.

A collection of Raj’s groundbreaking ethnographic studies of “vernacular” Catholic traditions in Tamil Nadu, India.

Brings popular cinema and Jewish religious texts into a meaningful dialogue.