Scholar · Author · Public Intellectual 

Thinking Across Traditions

My work focuses on the shifting landscape of meaning in the modern world.

I study how religious and philosophical traditions navigate modernity — what they lose, what they preserve, and what new forms of meaning they create.

I am interested in questions such as:

— how to think spiritually while remaining critical

— how to preserve tradition while staying modern

— how to speak about faith in a way that is intellectually honest.

For more than thirty years, I have taught philosophy and religious studies at American universities. I am the author and contributing editor of sixteen books and over two hundred publications, including the monograph Theory of Religious Cycles (Brill, 2015).