This work marks the meeting point of four different traditions of the Quranic commentary: philosophical, Sufi, Shi’ite and theological. It also presents Mulla Sadra al-Shirazi’s ...
Continue Reading →In the introduction of the book, al-Tabrisi writes: “What made me to write such a book, was that some Shi’a have desisted from argument and ...
Continue Reading →A direct, pithy, and accessible guide to the entire path of Tibetan Buddhism by one of the most beloved and respected contemporary lamas. Accessible, playful, ...
Continue Reading →If we want to be true atheists, do we have to begin with a religious edifice and undermine it from within? Slavoj Žižek has long ...
Continue Reading →In this broad-ranging inquiry into ritual and its relation to place, Jonathan Z. Smith prepares the way for a new approach to the comparative study ...
Continue Reading →In the Dialoghi, Judah has adopted certain trajectories of medieval cosmology and psychology, combined them with Renaissance notions of beauty, and thereby created a full-blown ...
Continue Reading →The philosophical work of Jean-Luc Marion has opened new ways of speaking about religious convictions and experiences. In this exploration of Marion’s philosophy and theology, ...
Continue Reading →Brilliant, inspired, and gloriously erudite, Literature and the Gods is the culmination of Roberto Calasso’s lifelong study of the gods in the human imagination. By ...
Continue Reading →With this profound final work, completed in the days leading up to his death, Michel Serres presents a vivid picture of his thinking about religion—a ...
Continue Reading →The aesthetic and cultural intersections of Christian and Islamic art The overlap between art and religion represents one of humanity’s most fundamental driving forces: a ...
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