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  • Dreaming Me

    Black, Baptist, and Buddhist — One Woman's Spiritual Journey

    by Jan Willis ...
    Jan Willis is not Baptist or Buddhist. She is simply both. Dreaming Me is the story of her life, as a child growing up in the Jim Crow South, dealing with racism in an Ivy League college, and becoming involved with the Black Panther Party. But it wasn't until meeting Lama Yeshe, a Tibetan Buddhist monk living in the mountains of Nepal, that she realized who the real Jan Willis was, and how to make ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Dharma Matters

    Women, Race, and Tantra

    by Jan Willis ...
    A powerful collection of essays on race and gender in contemporary Buddhist practice by one of the leading thinkers in the area.Jan Willis was among the first Westerners to encounter exiled Tibetan teachers abroad in the late sixties, instantly finding her spiritual and academic home. TIME Magazine named her one of six “spiritual innovators for the new millennium,” both for her considerable ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Fairhaven

    by Steve Willis, Jan Lee ...
    WINNER OF THE THE GREEN STORIES PRIZE 2023Fairhaven – A Novel of Climate Optimism traces the lives of a group of innovators, engineers, and visionaries as they struggle against the odds to bring climate solutions to Southeast Asia and to the world.Grace Chan, a young Malaysian working at the Fairhaven infrastructure project in Penang, is terrified of what the future might bring. She reluctantly ... Read more

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  • Afrikan Wisdom

    New Voices Talk Black Liberation, Buddhism, and Beyond

    Edited by Valerie Mason-John ...
    A spiritual, political, and interdisciplinary anthology of wisdom stories from Black liberation leaders and teachers.Afrikan Wisdom represents an intersectional, cross-pollinated exploration of Black life--past, present, and future. Award-winning author and editor Valerie Mason-John (Vimalasara)'s collection of 34 essays--written by an eclectic and inspirational group of Black thought leaders and ... Read more

    Was $13.99 USD Now $9.99 USD

  • Awakening Together

    The Spiritual Practice of Inclusivity and Community

    by Larry Yang ...
    “Awakening Together combines the intimately personal, the Buddhist and universal into a loving, courageous, important work that will benefit all who read it. For anyone who longs to collaborate and create a just and inclusive community, Larry provides a brilliant guidebook.”—Jack Kornfield, author of A Path With HeartHow can we connect our personal spiritual journeys with the larger course of our ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Defying Futility

    by Steve Willis, Jan Lee ...
    Is disaster inevitable? Defying Futility offers sixteen stories by the authors of the award-winning climate fiction Fairhaven – A Novel of Climate Optimism that offer a definitive answer to the question, with a range of creative, heartwarming tales that showcase how real disasters in history might have gone differently.Instead of a “Black Mirror” future, the stories are a “Green Mirror” ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Women Who Changed Architecture

    Edited by Jan Cigliano Hartman ...
    A visual and global chronicle of the triumphs, challenges, and impact of over 100 women in architecture, from early practitioners to contemporary leaders.Marion Mahony Griffin passed the architectural licensure exam in 1898 and created exquisite drawings that buoyed the reputation of Frank Lloyd Wright. Her story is one of the many told in The Women Who Changed Architecture, which sets the record ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Dancing in My Dreams

    A Spiritual Biography of Tina Turner

    by Ralph H. Craig ...
    Series series Library of Religious Biography (LRB)
    If you don't know Tina Turner's spirituality, you don't know Tina.When Tina Turner reclaimed her throne as the Queen of Rock 'n' Roll in the 1980s, she attributed her comeback to one thing: the wisdom and power she found in Buddhism. Her spiritual transformation is often overshadowed by the rags-to-riches arc of her life story. But in this groundbreaking biography, Ralph H. Craig III traces Tina's ... Read more

    $26.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Writing as Enlightenment

    Buddhist American Literature into the Twenty-first Century

    Edited by John Whalen-Bridge, Gary Storhoff ...
    Series series SUNY series in Buddhism and American Culture
    Explores the prevalence of Buddhist ideas in American literature since the 1970s.This timely book explores how Buddhist-inflected thought has enriched contemporary American literature. Continuing the work begun in The Emergence of Buddhist American Literature, editors John Whalen-Bridge and Gary Storhoff and the volume's contributors turn to the most recent developments, revealing how mid-1970s ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • A World In Transition: Humankind and Nature

    The Green Book of “Einstein Meets Magritte”

    Edited by Diederik Aerts, Jan Broekaert, Willy Weyns ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    A World in Transition, Humankind and Nature is appropriately entitled after its aim for an intrinsic property of reality: change.Of major concern, in this era of transformation, is the extensive and profound interaction of humankind with nature. The global-scale social and technological project of humankind definitely involves a myriad of changes of the ecosphere. This book develops, from the call ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Freud and Monotheism

    Moses and the Violent Origins of Religion

    by Gilad Sharvit, Jan Assmann, Richard Bernstein, Willi Goetschel, Ronald Hendel, Catherine Malabou, Gabriele Schwab, Yael Segalovitz, Joel Whitebook0 ...
    Series series Berkeley Forum in the Humanities
    Over the last few decades, vibrant debates regarding post-secularism have found inspiration and provocation in the works of Sigmund Freud. A new interest in the interconnection of psychoanalysis, religion and political theory has emerged, allowing Freud’s illuminating examination of the religious and mystical practices in “Obsessive Neurosis and Religious Practices,” and the exegesis of the ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Buddhism and Whiteness

    Critical Reflections

    by Sharon Suh, Laurie Cassidy, Jasmine Syedullah, Joy Brennan, Rima L. Vesely-Flad, Carolyn M. Jones Medine, Carol J. Moeller, Lama Justin von Bujdoss, Hsiao Lan Hu, Charles Johnson0, Ann Gleig Ann Gleig, associate professor of religion and cultural studies, University2, Emily McRae3, Leah Kalmanson5, Bryce Huebner6, Rhonda V. Magee7, Dr Jessica Locke8 ...
    Series series Philosophy of Race
    The motivation behind this important volume is to weave together two distinct, but we think complementary, traditions – the philosophical engagement with race/whiteness and Buddhist philosophy – in order to explore the ways in which these traditions can inform, correct, and improve each other. This exciting and critically informed volume will be the first of its kind to bring together essays that ... Read more

    $40.99 USD