The Future of Post-Human Geometry
Challenging conventional wisdom, this book reveals a new geometry beyond human conception. Its implications are profound: time travel, hyperspace, and a glimpse into our post-human fate.
The Internal Foe
This book explores how Christian theology has been shaped over two millennia by its interaction with Judaism. It traces a resilient framework of judgment and asks: Must Christian theology remain intrinsically anti-Jewish? The book concludes that it need not.
This collection questions the capacity of Canadian democracy to promote religious pluralism. As efforts push religious belief from the public square, how Canada responds to these challenges will not only influence public policy, but test its commitment to democracy.
The Philosophical Basis of Inter-religious Dialogue
In an age of global tension, can religions remain isolated islands? What is the true role of inter-religious dialogue? This selection of articles uses process philosophy to explore different points of view on these essential questions.
G. I. Gurdjieff
This volume presents a selection of writings on G.I. Gurdjieff, an important 20th-century figure whose influence continues to grow. Articles explore his key ideas and contributions in fields as diverse as psychology, philosophy, music, and education.
Edward Said and Jacques Derrida
By placing Edward Said and Jacques Derrida in each other’s company, these essays by leading scholars reconstellate their work on humanism. This collection opens questions of ethics and politics to reconsider the human subject in the global moment.
The roots of Chechnya lie in shamanism. The rich stories of the Nokhchii people have survived for thousands of years through oral traditions, providing virtually the only remaining evidence of their ancestors. This book contains these tales and commentaries on them.
These essays examine mysticism from Eastern, Western, philosophical, and religious perspectives. Featuring studies of thinkers from Teresa de Avila to Nietzsche and Kant, this collection attests to the power of mysticism to provoke reasoned thought on ultimate matters.
The Quaker Condition
This book sociologically examines the ‘Quaker Condition’ in present-day Britain. A pioneering social science study of a single faith group, it analyses Quakerism as a hyper-liberal religion, prefiguring developments that may overtake conservative groups.
Arians and Vandals of the 4th-6th Centuries
In late sixth-century North Africa, the legacy of the Arians and Vandals fueled bitter schisms within the Catholic Church. This study reveals the religious persecution that forced families to flee their homes in a struggle for faith and survival.
This book reads the parables of Jesus as language-games. Not abstract truths, these stories illustrate God’s kingdom and call readers to participate in its unfolding, making the parables accessible and removing them from the pedestal of obscurity.
Algernon Sidney Crapsey
Algernon Crapsey’s life reflected America’s shift from a religious to a secular culture. Once a leading Episcopal missioner, his liberal thinking led to a heresy trial that captivated the nation and ended in his excommunication.
This pioneering collection applies new theories from Comparative Religion to Celtic mythology and religion. A landmark volume for scholars of Celtic studies and related fields.
The Constant and Changing Faces of the Goddess
Essays trace the multiplicity of Asian goddesses as symbols of wisdom, power, transformation, and creation. This volume draws from Indian, Nepali, Chinese, Japanese, and Vietnamese traditions, a scope seldom found in other works.
Why is there a ‘here’ for us to inhabit? This book’s theme is the conviction that the Universe owes its existence to a divine Creator, as formulated in the three Abrahamic faiths. Jewish, Moslem, and Christian authors reveal their common ground on Creation.
Recounting the tragic partition of Hindustan, this book brings harsh history to bear on love stories as tragic as the peoples ripped apart by their country’s division. It explores love in a world of madness, where love becomes an answer for the future.
This work introduces a new genre: the shamanic story. Based on or inspired by shamanic journeys, these stories are often used for healing. Within this genre exists a sub-genre dealing with divination, analyzed here to identify their shared attributes.
Stories from across cultures deal with shamanic soul loss—the detachment of the psyche from trauma. This book argues for a new genre, the shamanic story, and its sub-genre of soul-loss tales, analysing examples to support this hypothesis.
Seeing with Different Eyes
These cutting-edge essays on divination and astrology feature authors from diverse academic disciplines. They address divination with critical but sympathetic inquiry, seeking to understand the divinatory act on its own terms across widely varying contexts.
For a thousand years, an unlikely cast—from beggars to earls—sought the perfect English Job. This book uncovers their stories and assembles a composite translation from fifty versions, revealing a compelling and paradoxical conversation.