Studies in Religion and Culture
Our series of studies in religion and culture sustains its focus on questions of interpreting religious and cultural traditions and the interplay between them. The series includes interdisciplinary and cross-cultural approaches. What unifies the series is a set of shared issues and questions rather than a single religious tradition, academic discipline, or cultural focus. These shared concerns have to do with the meanings of religious and cultural traditions in view of the challenges to them in today’s world.
Titles in this Series

American Koan
Imagining Zen and Self in Autobiographical Literature
Ben Van Overmeire

Meditation and the Martial Arts
Michael L. Raposa

Desire and the Ascetic Ideal
Buddhism and Hinduism in the Works of T. S. Eliot
Edward Upton

Spirit Deep
Recovering the Sacred in Black Women’s Travel
Tisha M. Brooks

In Search of Justice in Thailand’s Deep South
Malay Muslim and Thai Buddhist Women’s Narratives
Edited by John Clifford Holt. Compiled by Soraya Jamjuree and translated by Hara Shintaro

Words Made Flesh
Formations of the Postsecular in British Romanticism
Sean Dempsey

Precarious Balance
Sinhala Buddhism and the Forces of Pluralism
Bardwell L. Smith

A Language of Things
Emanuel Swedenborg and the American Environmental Imagination
Devin P. Zuber

The Pragmatist Turn
Religion, the Enlightenment, and the Formation of American Literature
Giles Gunn

Rethinking Sincerity and Authenticity
The Ethics of Theatricality in Kant, Kierkegaard, and Levinas
Howard Pickett

The Newark Earthworks
Enduring Monuments, Contested Meanings
Edited by Lindsay Jones and Richard D. Shiels

Ideas to Live For
Toward a Global Ethics
Giles Gunn

The Pagan Writes Back
When World Religion Meets World Literature
Zhange Ni

Freud and Augustine in Dialogue
Psychoanalysis, Mysticism, and the Culture of Modern Spirituality
William B. Parsons

Vigilant Faith
Passionate Agnosticism in a Secular World
Daniel Boscaljon

Bewildered Travel
The Sacred Quest for Confusion
Frederick J. Ruf

Doing Justice to Mercy
Religion, Law, and Criminal Justice
Jonathan Rothchild, Matthew Myer Boulton, and Kevin Jung, eds.

Postmodernism and the Revolution in Religious Theory
Toward a Semiotics of the Event
Carl Raschke

Textual Intimacy
Autobiography and Religious Identities
Wesley A. Kort

When the Sun Danced
Myth, Miracles, and Modernity in Early Twentieth-Century Portugal
Jeffrey S. Bennett

Encountering the Secular
Philosophical Endeavors in Religion and Culture
J. Heath Atchley

Religion after Postmodernism
Retheorizing Myth and Literature
Victor E. Taylor

Mourning Religion
Edited by William B. Parsons, Diane Jonte-Pace, and Susan E. Henking

Praise of the Secular
Gabriel Vahanian

Sacred Claims
Repatriation and Living Tradition
Greg Johnson

John Ruskin and the Ethics of Consumption
David M. Craig

Religion and Violence in a Secular World
Toward a New Political Theology
Clayton Crockett, ed.

Pontius Pilate
Roger Caillois. Translated by Charles Lam Markmann, with an introduction by Ivan Strenski

The Value of Solitude
The Ethics and Spirituality of Aloneness in Autobiography
John D. Barbour

Between Faith and Thought
An Essay on the Ontotheological Condition
Jeffrey W. Robbins

Exhibiting Religion
Colonialism and Spectacle at International Expositions, 1851–1893
John P. Burris

Taking Responsibility
Comparative Perspectives
Winston Davis, ed.

Symbolic Loss
The Ambiguity of Mourning and Memory at Century's End
Peter Homans

Boredom and the Religious Imagination
Michael L. Raposa

Creationism on Trial
Evolution and God at Little Rock
Langdon Gilkey

Myth and Method
Laurie L. Patton and Wendy Doniger, eds.

Savage Systems
Colonialism and Comparative Religion in Southern Africa
David Chidester

Captured by Texts
Puritan to Postmodern Images of Indian Captivity
Gary L. Ebersole

Versions of Deconversion
Autobiography and the Loss of Faith
John D. Barbour

Kierkegaard
The Indirect Communication
Roger Poole

Ordinarily Sacred
Lynda Sexson