Spirituality & Religious Experience

An examination of the musical, religious, and political landscape of black New Orleans before and after Hurricane Katrina, this revised edition loo...

There has been much philosophical speculation on the potential failure of language as well as the search for a presentation of the “thing itself” b...

Pursuing special experiences that take them to the brink of permanent madness or death, men and women in every age have "returned" to heal and comf...

Using the Akan in Ghana as a paradigmatic African representative group, African Spirituality: On Becoming Ancestors, Third Edition offers a unique ...

Based on exploration of boundaries between spirituality and religion, this book argues that theological study of spirituality is important for inte...

This is the first book-length study of the thought of Sri Chinmoy (1931-2007), who became well known during his lifetime as the exponent of a dynam...

Unseen presences. Apparitions. Hearing voices. Although some people would find such experiences to be distressing and seek clinical help, others pe...

Every human being is born and has gone through a process of birth. Yet the topic of birth remains deeply underrepresented in the humanities, oversh...

With a focus on the connected spiritual legacy of the black Atlantic, Literary Expressions of African Spirituality leads the way to more comprehens...

There is a divine pronouncement among the Akan that all human beings are children of God (Nana Nyame), none a child of the earth (mother); meaning ...

The foundational work on shamanism now available as a Princeton Classics paperbackShamanism is an essential work on the study of this mysterious an...

Even if all of the elements we know to be significant in the process of reconciliation were present, reconciliation would not necessarily take plac...

Global crises—from pandemics to climate change—demonstrate the vulnerability of the biosphere and each of us as individuals, calling for responses ...

This book makes a compelling case for male-female religious complementarity in many of the world’s religions. It offers an extensive survey of fema...

The Path of Worshippers to the Paradise of the Lord of the Universe is an authoritative book and a guideline on practical Sufism ('irfan-i 'amali)....

The Path of Worshippers to the Paradise of the Lord of the Universe is an authoritative book and a guideline on practical Sufism ('irfan-i 'amali)....

With a focus on the connected spiritual legacy of the black Atlantic, Literary Expressions of African Spirituality leads the way to more comprehens...

Christian Faith, Justice, and a Politics of Mercy: The Benevolent Community assumes that the most profound moral conflict today is between two virt...

In this provocative study of dancing, Sam Gill examines the interpretive styles of a variety of cultural dance traditions in discourse with the phi...

In this provocative study of dancing, Sam Gill examines the interpretive styles of a variety of cultural dance traditions in discourse with the phi...

Recovering the African Feminine Divine in Literature, the Arts, and Practice: Yemonja Awakening provides context to the myriad ways in which the Af...

In Spiritual Integrity, Martin S. Cohen argues that it is possible for a serious commitment to religion—including to ritual, dogma, and prayer—to c...

Religion, Gender, and Wellbeing in Africa argues that, in many African societies, ideas and practices of wellbeing and gender relations continue to...

From Ecclesiastes to Simone Weil: Varieties of Philosophical Spirituality reads major philosophers from the Western philosophical canon and beyond ...