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Eliot Deutsch
A compact philosophical reconstruction of Advaita Vedanta’s accounts of reality, the self, ignorance, knowledge, and liberation.
Anantanand Rambachan
Rambachan explains Advaita Vedanta through its teachings about brahman, the world, human identity, liberation, and ethical life.
BookJohn S. Mbiti
A landmark African scholar’s synthesis that challenged Western dismissal of African religious worlds and philosophies.
BookDavid Albert Jones
A compact history of angels across Jewish, Christian, Islamic, philosophical, artistic, and popular-cultural settings.
Podcast EpisodeRotating scholar hosts
Contemporary Afghan Sufi authority, gender and civil society appear through ethnography rather than generic mystical universalism. This exact object earns inclusion because hearing the exchange performs work the 574-book shelf cannot supply as directly.
BookMichael Sells
Michael Sells introduces selected early revelations of the Qur’an through new translations, brief commentary, and recordings of Arabic recitation. He pays close attention to sound, rhythm, imagery, and the movement between warning, mercy, creation, and human response. The book helps English-speaking readers encounter why the Qur’an is heard and recited as well as read.
Nicholas Campion
Historian Nicholas Campion studies modern Western astrology as a form of popular religion and lived cosmology. Rather than asking only whether predictions are accurate, he examines how astrologers understand an enchanted or purposeful cosmos, negotiate fate and free will, relate astrology to science and psychology, and locate the practice within New Age culture.
Peter Whitfield
Peter Whitfield follows astrology across more than two millennia, from ancient celestial interpretation through Greek and Roman thought, its contested relationship with Christianity, medieval and Renaissance revivals, and its later separation from modern astronomy. Richly illustrated and relatively brief, the book helps readers see astrology as a changing intellectual and religious tradition rather than a timeless set of personality labels.
BookParamahansa Yogananda
Yogananda’s spiritual autobiography moves from his Bengali childhood and search for a guru through discipleship under Sri Yukteswar, encounters with saints and yogis, and his work establishing Kriya Yoga in the United States. Memoir, spiritual instruction, interreligious interpretation, and hagiographic wonder stories combine to present yoga as a path toward direct realization of God rather than primarily physical exercise.
BookEknath Easwaran
The Gita places a warrior's moral crisis inside a teaching on dharma, disciplined action, devotion, knowledge, and the nature of the self. Easwaran's edition offers substantial orientation while preserving the scriptural dialogue.
BookBlack Elk; as told through John G. Neihardt
An influential mediated narrative of Black Elk’s visions, Lakota history, colonial violence, and communal loss.
BookDaniel C. Dennett
A philosopher’s proposal to study religion as a natural human phenomenon shaped by cultural evolution.
BookStephen Batchelor
Stephen Batchelor presents Buddhism as an agnostic way of life organized around awakening, ethical response, attention, and the four tasks rather than assent to rebirth, cosmology, or institutional authority. Drawing on his formation as a monk and later departure from orthodoxy, he reframes dharma for modern secular and religiously uncertain readers.
BookSwami Tapasyananda
A complete Gita translation with extensive commentary from the Ramakrishna-Vedanta tradition, deepening beyond the accessible Easwaran edition.
BookFarid ud-Din Attar; translated by Dick Davis and Afkham Darbandi
A Persian Sufi allegory in which birds journey through spiritual valleys toward the Simorgh and discover what their seeking requires.
Podcast EpisodeScott Mitchell; David McMahan
Adds the historical depth needed to distinguish inherited Buddhist traditions from the meditation-centered, science-compatible forms many Christian-origin travelers first meet.
BookEknath Easwaran
Easwaran translates and introduces a widely read collection of verses on mind, conduct, attention, and liberation attributed to the Buddha.
BookJalal al-Din Rumi; Coleman Barks
Coleman Barks presents free English renderings of Rumi’s mystical poetry about love, longing, bewilderment, and union.
BookRanya Idliby, Suzanne Oliver & Priscilla Warner
Ranya Idliby, Suzanne Oliver, and Priscilla Warner recount an interfaith friendship among a Muslim, Christian, and Jew formed after September 11. Their conversations move through God, Scripture, prayer, Jesus, Muhammad, Israel and Palestine, antisemitism, Islamophobia, stereotypes, family, holidays, and the pressures of representing traditions while maintaining affection through real disagreement.
BookLesley Hazleton
Lesley Hazleton tells the life of Muhammad in the world of seventh-century Arabia, following his early vulnerability, call to prophecy, opposition in Mecca, migration to Medina, community leadership, conflict, and death. She writes for general readers and tries to make the human drama understandable without reducing Muhammad to either a flawless icon or a hostile stereotype.
Podcast EpisodeRaghunath Cappo; Kaustubha Das
Kabir’s poem and a community death let Bhakti devotion, grief and ordinary sangha life be heard from inside. This exact object earns inclusion because hearing the exchange performs work the 574-book shelf cannot supply as directly.
BookRupert Gethin
A university-level introduction to Buddhist history, doctrine, cosmology, meditation, ethics, and traditions.
BookAbraham Joshua Heschel
Heschel develops wonder, revelation, mitzvah, prophecy, and the claim that religion begins with God’s search for humanity.
BookJay Michaelson
Jay Michaelson brings Jewish texts and mystical ideas into conversation with mindfulness and embodied practice, exploring eating, sexuality, movement, breath, and physical awareness as possible sites of spiritual life. The book resists treating the body as an obstacle to holiness.
BookStephen Prothero
Stephen Prothero introduces eight religious traditions by emphasizing the different human problems they diagnose, the goals they seek, and the practices or paths they commend. His central argument is that treating religions as different routes up one mountain erases consequential differences in doctrine, ritual, history, and aspiration.
BookVine Deloria Jr.
Standing Rock Sioux scholar Vine Deloria Jr. contrasts Indigenous land-based religious worlds with Western Christianity's emphasis on universal history, mission, and doctrinal authority. He examines colonialism, sacred place, revelation, time, ecological relation, and the political consequences of a religion that claimed the right to displace peoples and overwrite their worlds.
BookSeyyed Hossein Nasr
Seyyed Hossein Nasr presents Islam from within its sacred, intellectual, legal, ethical, and spiritual traditions. Addressing revelation, the Qur'an, Muhammad, divine law, human responsibility, beauty, pluralism, jihad, peace, and relations with the West, he argues that Islam's enduring center is surrender to God and a civilization ordered toward the sacred rather than the political images that dominate public debate.
BookThich Nhat Hanh
Thích Nhất Hạnh presents central Buddhist teachings—including the Four Noble Truths, the Noble Eightfold Path, the Three Dharma Seals, the Three Doors of Liberation, and the Seven Factors of Awakening—as interlocking ways of understanding suffering and cultivating compassion, joy, and freedom. Written from his Vietnamese Thiền and Plum Village lineage, the book connects doctrine to mindfulness practice and ordinary life.
Podcast EpisodeVaradaraja V. Raman with Krista Tippett
Physicist Varadaraja V. Raman offers a Hindu view of knowledge, wonder, ritual, and the different questions that science and religion can ask.
BookSarah Hurwitz
Sarah Hurwitz combines memoir with an inviting exploration of Jewish theology, ethics, prayer, holidays, texts, community, and approaches to God. Beginning from her own surprise at discovering a Judaism more intellectually and spiritually expansive than the version she had absorbed growing up, she introduces classical sources and contemporary practices as material for adult questioning rather than a list of ethnic customs.
BookShashi Tharoor
Shashi Tharoor introduces Hinduism through its stories, sacred texts, philosophies, deities, practices, and long tradition of debate. He emphasizes that Hindu life cannot be reduced to one founder, creed, or required way of believing. He also reflects on pluralism and on the modern political struggle over who gets to define Hindu identity in India.
BookKim Knott
A concise academic introduction to Hindu histories, texts, deities, practices, social forms, and modern identities.
BookBarbara Brown Taylor
Episcopal priest Barbara Brown Taylor reflects on teaching world religions and bringing students into mosques, synagogues, temples, and other sacred spaces. Through encounters, classroom stories, and memoir, she describes ‘holy envy’: recognizing beauty or wisdom in another tradition without pretending differences disappear or that appreciation makes the other tradition one's own.
BookSwami Sri Yukteswar Giri
Sri Yukteswar compares Hindu and Christian scriptures while presenting a unified spiritual cosmology, stages of consciousness, and practical principles of life.
BookBhikkhu Bodhi
A thematic anthology of discourses from the Pali Canon with introductions by a major Theravada translator.
Community / DestinationInterfaith America
Interfaith America offers courses, cohorts, campus initiatives, and civic programs for learning and working across religious difference.
Podcast ShowAmbereen Khan; Maureen Fiedler (founder)
Guy Newland
Newland uses contemporary examples to explain emptiness as taught through Tsongkhapa’s Tibetan Gelug interpretation of Madhyamaka Buddhism.
BookJeffery D. Long
A scholarly introduction to Jain history, nonviolence, karma, liberation, communities, and contemporary life.
BookJoseph Telushkin
Telushkin offers a wide-ranging reference to Jewish texts, history, beliefs, practices, ethics, communities, and modern questions.
BookAdele Berlin and Marc Zvi Brettler, editors
The Tanakh presented with Jewish scholarly notes and essays that orient readers to Hebrew, history, interpretation, and Jewish reception.
BookLao Tzu; translated by Ursula K. Le Guin
Le Guin’s spare interpretive version foregrounds humility, noncoercion, usefulness, and the ordinary mystery of the Tao.
BookThich Nhat Hanh
Vietnamese Zen teacher Thich Nhat Hanh brings mindfulness, compassion, community, the Holy Spirit, Eucharist, and the living Christ into conversation from a Buddhist standpoint shaped by friendship with Christians. Rather than constructing a systematic synthesis, he reflects on practices and symbols that can help traditions recognize life and peace in one another.
BookAbraham Joshua Heschel
Heschel develops a Jewish religious philosophy of wonder, the ineffable, divine concern, and humanity’s response to God.
BookEmma Cohen
Combines ethnography in an Afro-Brazilian religious community with cognitive-science proposals about how spirit concepts, possession, and healing practices become compelling and transmissible.
BookEdward Benton-Banai
An illustrated account of Ojibwe history, migration, clan life, ceremonies, values, and Seven Fires teachings by an Anishinaabe elder.
BookDevdutt Pattanaik
Devdutt Pattanaik reorganizes themes from the Bhagavad Gita into an illustrated contemporary interpretation concerned with identity, desire, action, exchange, the self, and the other. He explicitly presents the work as ‘my’ Gita rather than a translation, using comparisons and diagrams to make one reading accessible to modern audiences.
Podcast ShowScholarly rotating hosts
Podcast ShowScholarly rotating hosts
Scholar interviews provide tradition-aware context for Hindu, Vedānta and South Asian religious worlds often flattened by generic nonduality media.
Podcast ShowRotating scholar hosts
BookReza Aslan
Reza Aslan narrates the origins and development of Islam from Muhammad and the early Muslim community through debates over authority, law, sectarian difference, colonialism, reform, and modern political struggle. He writes as a Muslim scholar of religions and advances an accessible, reform-oriented interpretation in which Islamic history is dynamic, internally plural, and repeatedly shaped by human contests over power and meaning.
Community / DestinationOne Spirit Learning Alliance
A nine-month online interspiritual cohort with monthly class weekends, study groups, electives, service, and a required in-person intensive.
Community / DestinationSecular Buddhist Network
An online hub for secular Buddhist teaching, practice, and discussion.
BookRobert Wolff
Robert Wolff recounts periods living among Sng’oi people in Malaysia and presents what he understood as their direct, intuitive way of knowing, relationship with the forest, communal life, dream attention, and sensitivity beyond ordinary Western categories. The memoir contrasts this ‘original wisdom’ with modern habits of abstraction, control, accumulation, and separation, inviting readers to recover capacities he believes industrial culture suppresses.
Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche; translated and arranged by Lama Shenpen Hookham
A Tibetan Buddhist teacher presents several understandings of emptiness as progressive contemplative views to be studied and tested in meditation.
BookAbraham Joshua Heschel
A monumental Jewish study of prophetic consciousness, divine pathos, justice, and the moral life of biblical speech.
Community / DestinationInterfaith Community Sanctuary
A Seattle-based interfaith congregation offering public sanctuary gatherings, livestreams, and community participation.
BookM. A. S. Abdel Haleem
M. A. S. Abdel Haleem translates the Qur'an into contemporary English with attention to textual flow, context, and the connections among passages. The volume includes an introduction, explanatory notes, and a thematic index, offering English-language readers access to Islam's scripture as sustained proclamation about God, guidance, mercy, judgment, prophetic history, worship, ethics, and community.
Podcast EpisodeThich Nhat Hanh with Krista Tippett
Thich Nhat Hanh speaks simply about mindfulness, compassion, war, anger, and bringing spiritual practice into the conflicts of ordinary life.
BookShawn Wilson
An Indigenous scholar presents research as relational accountability, ceremony, and a distinct way of knowing.
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