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Captured by Texts

Puritan to Postmodern Images of Indian Captivity
Ebersole, Gary L.

How has the American Indian captivity narrative been used to explain the human condition? How does it serve to interpret the meaning of pain and suffering, gender, and the...

The Otherness of God

Summerell, Orrin F.

This volume offers essays on the nature of God and the fundamental tasks of philosophy and theology written by internationally recognized thinkers in the distinct fields of...

The Way of the Stars

Journeys on the Camino de Santiago
Sibley, Robert C.

Since medieval times, pilgrimages have been a popular religious or spiritual undertaking. Even today, between seventy and one hundred million people a year make pilgrimages, if...

Creationism on Trial

Evolution and God at Little Rock
Gilkey, Langdon

Creationism on Trial is Gilkey's blow-by-blow account of his experiences as a witness for the ACLU at the 1981 creationist trial in Little Rock, AR.

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Reading the Hindu and Christian Classics

Why and How Deep Learning Still Matters
Clooney, Francis X.

We live in an era of unprecedented growth in knowledge. Never before has there been so great an availability of and access to information in both print and online. Yet as...

John Ruskin and the Ethics of Consumption

Craig, David M.

The first book on the Victorian critic and public intellectual John Ruskin by a scholar of religion and ethics, this work recovers both Ruskin's engaged critique of economic...

Conversion and Text

The Cases of Augustine of Hippo, Herman-Judah, and Constantine Tsatsos
Morrison, Karl F.

Interpreting three conversion accounts, Morrison accents the categorical difference between the experience of conversion and written narratives about it. He explains why...

The Book of Common Prayer, 1559

The Elizabethan Prayer Book
Booty, John E.

John E. Booty’s edition of The Book of Common Prayer, 1559, first published by the University Press of Virginia for the Folger Shakespeare Library in 1976 and long out...

Hope without Optimism

Eagleton, Terry

In his latest book, Terry Eagleton, one of the most celebrated intellects of our time, considers the least regarded of the virtues. His compelling meditation on hope begins...

The Reason of the Gift

Marion, Jean-Luc

This book represents a continuation of Jean-Luc Marion’s work on givenness as a foundational concept. A former student of Jacques Derrida, Marion is known for his work in...

Buddha in the Marketplace

The Commodification of Buddhist Objects in Tibet
Catanese, Alex John

Classical Tibetan Buddhist scriptures forbid the selling of Buddhist objects, and yet there is today a thriving market for Buddhist statues, paintings, and texts. In Buddha...

The Conversation of Humanity
Mulhall, Stephen
Based on the author’s Page-Barbour lectures, delivered at the University of Virginia in 2005, The Conversation of Humanity critically examines the idea that the nature...

Nietzsche on Gender
Beyond Man and Woman
Oppel, Frances Nesbitt
Although Nietzsche has been considered by some critics to be a misogynist for his treatment of woman, women, and the feminine, Frances Nesbitt Oppel offers a radical...

Religion after Postmodernism
Retheorizing Myth and Literature
Taylor, Victor E.
In this critical examination of the role of the imagination in the modern and postmodern periods, Victor E. Taylor looks at the 'fable' as a narrative form that addresses the...

The Way of the 88 Temples
Journeys on the Shikoku Pilgrimage
Sibley, Robert C.
Compelled to seek something more than what modern society has to offer, Robert Sibley turned to an ancient setting for help in recovering what has been lost. The Henro Michi is...

Ordinarily Sacred
Sexson, Lynda
Lynda Sexson offers a theology of everyday experience in this enchanting book that shows how the religious traditions of the world lie slightly concealed in the details and...

Boredom and the Religious Imagination
Raposa, Michael L.
Boredom matters, writes Michael Raposa, because it represents a threat to spiritual life. Boredom can undermine prayer and meditation and signal the failure of religious...