-
A none's story
The rising population known as "nones" for its members' lack of religious affiliation is changing American society, politics, and culture. Many nones believe in God and even visit places of worship, but they do not identify with a specific faith or belong to a spiritual community. Corinna Nicolao...
Read MoreRegular price $25.00Sale price $25.00 Regular price $25.00Unit price per -
A partial enlightenment
Avram Alpert combines personal experience and readings of modern novels to offer another way to understand modern Buddhism. He argues that it represents a rich resource not for attaining perfection but rather for finding meaning and purpose in a chaotic world.
Regular price $35.00Sale price $35.00 Regular price $35.00Unit price per -
Action in waiting
A message to stir the embers of a dying faith.Given the number of people who’ve been “saved,” you’d think the world was becoming a brighter place. It could be, too, if more people would grasp the joy of losing themselves in service to God and each other. People like Christoph Blumhardt, who, in h...
Read MoreRegular price $12.00Sale price $12.00 Regular price $12.00Unit price per -
Altered states
In the 1960s, Americans combined psychedelics with Buddhist meditation to achieve direct experience through altered states of consciousness. As some practitioners became more committed to Buddhism, they abandoned the use of psychedelics in favor of stricter mental discipline, but others carried o...
Read MoreRegular price $25.00Sale price $25.00 Regular price $25.00Unit price per -
An enchanted world
Uncovering the vibrant spiritual life of Late AntiquityIn Late Antiquity (ca. 200–600 CE), the world was alive with unseen forces—divine agents who influenced every aspect of daily life. For most ordinary people, religion was not found in temples, synagogues, and churches, but in lived experience...
Read MoreRegular price $35.00Sale price $35.00 Regular price $35.00Unit price per -
Animism
How have human cultures engaged with and thought about animals, plants, rocks, clouds, and other elements in their natural surroundings? Do animals and other natural objects have a spirit or soul? What is their relationship to humans? In this new study, Graham Harvey explores current and past ani...
Read MoreRegular price $38.00Sale price $38.00 Regular price $38.00Unit price per -
Black gods of the asphalt
A former streetball player who became an all-star Ivy Leaguer brings the sights and sounds, hopes and dreams of street basketball to life. Through interviews with and observations of urban basketball players, he composes a rare portrait of a passionate, committed, and resilient group of athletes ...
Read MoreRegular price $23.00Sale price $23.00 Regular price $23.00Unit price per -
Contemplation
This book offers a philosophical introduction to the theory and practice of contemplation. Kevin Hart examines a variety of religious, aesthetic, and philosophical notions, shedding light on the singular qualities of contemplation.
Regular price $20.00Sale price $20.00 Regular price $20.00Unit price per -
Conversations in the spirit
The collectors edition of Lex Hixon's interviews with prominent spiritual teachers Ram Dass, Alan Watts, Kalu Rinpoche, Swami Muktandananda, and more.
Regular price $20.00Sale price $20.00 Regular price $20.00Unit price per -
Day of the dead
The Day of the Dead is the most important annual celebration in Oaxaca, Mexico. Skillfully combining textual information and photographic imagery, this book begins with a discussion of the people of Oaxaca, their way of life, and their way of looking at the world. It then takes the reader throu...
Read MoreRegular price $59.95Sale price $59.95 Regular price $59.95Unit price per -
Esotericism, mysticism, and the politics of transcendence in modern asia
In this seminal edited collection, scholars from different fields critically examine histories of esotericism, mysticism and occultism in modern Asia, understood here as the period roughly stretching from the late nineteenth through the twentieth century, paving eventually the way for the so-call...
Read MoreRegular price $110.00Sale price $110.00 Regular price $110.00Unit price per -
Face to face
In this extraordinary 1959 interview, Carl Gustav Jung speaks with disarming lucidity about death, God, dreams, and the psyche’s hidden depths.
Regular price $8.00Sale price $8.00 Regular price $8.00Unit price per -
From fragmentation to wholeness
From Fragmentation to Wholeness challenges conventional, mechanistic approaches to sustainability and argues that fragmented human consciousness and linear policy models are insufficient to address today’s systemic crises.
Regular price $120.00Sale price $120.00 Regular price $120.00Unit price per -
God of love
Champions the underlying unity of peace and justice teachings in Judaism, Christianity and Islam
Regular price $18.99Sale price $18.99 Regular price $18.99Unit price per -
Grassroots zen
Rooted in a spiritual partnership model based on power-sharing,” Grassroots Zen emphasizes gender equality and is oriented to social engagement.
Regular price $15.95Sale price $15.95 Regular price $15.95Unit price per -
Hip hop's hostile gospel
Hip Hop’s Hostile Gospel is a wide-ranging and highly enjoyable attempt to unearth the theology of Hip Hop
Regular price $30.00Sale price $30.00 Regular price $30.00Unit price per -
Holy daring
This fresh, upbeat, and deftly profound book joyfully reconnects the fullness of our daily lives with the depths of prayer.
Regular price $16.95Sale price $16.95 Regular price $16.95Unit price per -
How god becomes real
The hard work required to make God real, how it changes the people who do it, and why it helps explain the enduring power of faithHow do gods and spirits come to feel vividly real to people—as if they were standing right next to them? Humans tend to see supernatural agents everywhere, as the cogn...
Read MoreRegular price $18.95Sale price $18.95 Regular price $18.95Unit price per -
Learning to live in the dark
In these hard-hitting and deeply personal essays, Nation writer and veteran activist Wen Stephenson traces his search for resolve in the face of our converging climate and political catastrophes. After three decades of failed international efforts to avoid catastrophic climate change, progressiv...
Read MoreRegular price $19.95Sale price $19.95 Regular price $19.95Unit price per -
Liquid light
The Santo Daime is a syncretic religion whose spiritual practice is based around the sacramental use of ayahuasca. G. William Barnard—an initiate of the religion and a scholar of religious studies—considers the religious practice and transformative inner experiences of the Santo Daime community.
Regular price $35.00Sale price $35.00 Regular price $35.00Unit price per -
Living revision
“Revision is the spiritual practice of transformation—of seeing text, and therefore the world, with new eyes. Done well, revision returns us to our original love.” In Living Revision, award-winning author and teacher Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew guides writers through the writing and revision proces...
Read MoreRegular price $18.00Sale price $18.00 Regular price $18.00Unit price per -
Local gods
Leah Kalmanson offers a new approach to understanding the world’s varied religious traditions, foregrounding the numinous, subtle, and supernormal factors that pervade many aspects of everyday life but slip through the cracks of philosophical discourse.
Regular price $28.00Sale price $28.00 Regular price $28.00Unit price per -
Making peace with the universe
In Making Peace with the Universe, Michael Scott Alexander reads diverse classic religious accounts as masterpieces of therapeutic insight. He recasts spiritual confessions as case histories of therapy, showing how they remain radical and deeply meaningful even in an age of scientific psychology.
Regular price $30.00Sale price $30.00 Regular price $30.00Unit price per -
Mushrooms, myth and mithras
A fascinating tour of the mushroom-centered mystery religions which have profoundly influenced Western civilization.
Regular price $25.00Sale price $25.00 Regular price $25.00Unit price per -
Neurotheology
Andrew Newberg explores the latest findings of neurotheology, the multidisciplinary field linking neuroscience with religious and spiritual phenomena. He investigates some of the most controversial—and potentially transformative—implications of a neurotheological approach.
Regular price $30.00Sale price $30.00 Regular price $30.00Unit price per -
Philosophies of happiness
Philosophies of Happiness provides a global, cross-cultural, and interdisciplinary perspective on how to create a fulfilling life. Diana Lobel brings together a broad range of philosophical traditions—Eastern and Western, ancient and contemporary—to show that certain themes resonate across texts,...
Read MoreRegular price $40.00Sale price $40.00 Regular price $40.00Unit price per -
Pure act
A biography of experimental poet and spiritual seeker Robert Lax, who inspired Thomas Merton, Jack Kerouac and many others. Using information and stories drawn from journal entries, letters, interviews and the author’s personal recollections, the book chronicles the development of Lax’s distinct...
Read MoreRegular price $24.95Sale price $24.95 Regular price $24.95Unit price per -
Radical romanticism
Interweaving canonical nineteenth-century authors with Black and Indigenous thinkers who transformed their work, this book is a bold new account of Romanticism for today’s deeply entrenched crises.
Regular price $37.00Sale price $37.00 Regular price $37.00Unit price per -
Sacred knowledge
Sacred Knowledge is the first well-documented, sophisticated account of the effect of psychedelics on biological processes, human consciousness, and revelatory religious experiences. Richards argues that, if used responsibly and legally, psychedelics have incredible potential to assuage human suf...
Read MoreRegular price $25.00Sale price $25.00 Regular price $25.00Unit price per -
Shamanism
The foundational work on shamanism from an influential historian of religionShamanism is an essential account of this mysterious and fascinating phenomenon. The founder of the modern study of the history of religion, Mircea Eliade surveys the shamanic tradition through two and a half millennia of...
Read MoreRegular price $38.00Sale price $38.00 Regular price $38.00Unit price per -
Shattered grief
Shattered Grief is an intimate portrait of how COVID-19 changed the ways Americans approach, understand, and mourn death.
Regular price $28.00Sale price $28.00 Regular price $28.00Unit price per -
Sonorous desert
Enduring lessons from the desert soundscapes that shaped the Christian monastic traditionFor the hermits and communal monks of antiquity, the desert was a place to flee the cacophony of ordinary life in order to hear and contemplate the voice of God. But these monks discovered something surprisin...
Read MoreRegular price $29.95Sale price $29.95 Regular price $29.95Unit price per -
Spiritual transmission
Interviews with leading spiritual teachers and their students probe the promise and perils of the teacher-student relationship.
Regular price $16.95Sale price $16.95 Regular price $16.95Unit price per -
Spirituality management in the workplace
The experts here provide conceptual frameworks and guidance by examining the subject in the light of current developments at multiple levels of analysis: individual, organizational, cultural, and in leadership. Spirituality in the workplace considers employees as a whole, in spirit, body, and mind.
Regular price $115.00Sale price $115.00 Regular price $115.00Unit price per -
The blessing of sorrow
An empathetic look at the grieving process providing a path to acceptance and peace for those who must continue their life journey after a loved one dies.
Regular price $17.95Sale price $17.95 Regular price $17.95Unit price per -
The future of wisdom
Communicates the depth and power of the Christian wisdom tradition’, and the promise of its dramatic rebirth in our time
Regular price $22.00Sale price $22.00 Regular price $22.00Unit price per -
The glorians
NATIONAL BESTSELLER“I go to Terry Tempest Williams for the reasons I go to Whitman and Thoreau: to recover a capacious spirit and to rejoin the urgent living world. She gives me something bigger than hope.”―Richard Powers, author of The OverstoryFrom the visionary New York Times bestselling autho...
Read MoreRegular price $28.00Sale price $28.00 Regular price $28.00Unit price per -
The oneness hypothesis
The idea that the self is inextricably intertwined with the rest of the world—the “oneness hypothesis”—can be found in many of the world’s philosophical and religious traditions. This anthology explores the oneness hypothesis through East Asian and Western thought as well as sociology, evolutiona...
Read MoreRegular price $42.00Sale price $42.00 Regular price $42.00Unit price per -
The shape of spirituality
The Shape of Spirituality brings together leading sociologists to challenge common notions that spirituality is individualistic, privatized, and apolitical—and to make the definitive case for its social and political significance.
Regular price $35.00Sale price $35.00 Regular price $35.00Unit price per -
The work of art
Art making as a way of mediating between inner and outer realities.
Regular price $42.00Sale price $42.00 Regular price $42.00Unit price per -
Thoreau's axe
How nineteenth-century “disciplines of attention” anticipated the contemporary concern with mindfulness and being “spiritual but not religious”Today, we’re driven to distraction, our attention overwhelmed by the many demands upon it—most of which emanate from our beeping and blinking digital devi...
Read MoreRegular price $32.00Sale price $32.00 Regular price $32.00Unit price per -
Why we dance
Offers a visionary definition of dance that illuminates its constitutive work in the ongoing evolution of human persons.
Regular price $32.00Sale price $32.00 Regular price $32.00Unit price per -
With dogs at the edge of life
In this original and provocative book, Colin Dayan tackles head-on the inexhaustible world, at once tender and fierce, of dogs and humans. We follow the tracks of dogs in the bayous of Louisiana, the streets of Istanbul, and the humane societies of the United States, and in the memories and myths...
Read MoreRegular price $23.00Sale price $23.00 Regular price $23.00Unit price per -
Work pray code
How tech giants are reshaping spirituality to serve their religion of peak productivitySilicon Valley is known for its lavish perks, intense work culture, and spiritual gurus. Work Pray Code explores how tech companies are bringing religion into the workplace in ways that are replacing traditiona...
Read MoreRegular price $27.95Sale price $27.95 Regular price $27.95Unit price per
Something went wrong
Please try again
