The Book Company: New Products - Comparative Religion

The Genesis of China's Fifty Nationalities

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 05:57:52 +0000

This book brings together creation stories, ancestral legends, and cosmological traditions from China’ s fifty officially recognized ethnic groups. These diverse and powerful narratives, passed down through generations, offer insights into how communities across China have understood t..

Price: $120.00

The Routledge Handbook of Death and the Afterlife

Thu, 03 Sep 2026 17:38:26 +0000

This handbook traces the history of the changing notion of what it means to die and examines the many constructions of afterlife in literature, text, ritual, and material culture throughout time. The Routledge Handbook of Death and the Afterlife is an outstanding reference source to the ..

Price: $350.00

Defining Magic (A Reader)

Thu, 03 Sep 2026 16:59:14 +0000

Defining Magic is the first volume to assemble key texts that aim at determining the nature of magic, establish its boundaries and key features, and explain its working. The reader brings together seminal writings from antiquity to today.

Price: $233.99

Beyond Theology (The Art of Godmanship)

Tue, 01 Sep 2026 05:50:14 +0000

A radical reinterpretation of Christianity by one of the twentieth century’s leading philosophers

Today, Alan Watts is remembered mainly as an eloquent interpreter of Eastern philosophies such as Taoism and Zen Buddhism. Not everyone knows that Watts was also a formidable s..

Price: $18.95

The Two Hands of God (The Myths of Polarity)

Tue, 01 Sep 2026 05:37:23 +0000

The forgotten book on world mythology by Alan Watts

Alan Watts is today remembered as a trailblazing interpreter of Eastern philosophy, but The Two Hands of God reveals a different side of his multifaceted genius. In this ambitious work, Watts takes readers on a..

Price: $17.95

Enlightenment Town (Finding Spiritual Awakening in a Most Improbable Place)

Tue, 01 Sep 2026 05:28:12 +0000

Why has a tiny old mining town straight out of Gunsmoke or Deadwood — Crestone, Colorado — become home to twenty-five spiritual centers representing nearly all the brand-name faiths of the world? With the keen eye of a storyteller, the insights of a scholar, and the heart of a seeker..

Price: $15.95

The Meaning of Happiness (The Quest for Freedom of the Spirit in Modern Psychology and the Wisdom of the East)

Tue, 01 Sep 2026 05:25:09 +0000

Deep down, most people think that happiness comes from having or doing something. Here, in Alan Watts’s groundbreaking third book (originally published in 1940), he offers a more challenging thesis: authentic happiness comes from embracing life as a whole in all its contradict..

Price: $18.95

The Flight of the Wild Gander (Explorations in the Mythological Dimension - Selected Essays 1944-1968)

Tue, 01 Sep 2026 05:24:45 +0000

In Flight of the Wild Gander, renowned mythologist Joseph Campbell — in his first collection of essays, written between 1944 and 1968 — explores the individual and geographical origins of myth, outlining the full range of mythology from Grimm’s fairy tales to American Indian legends. Origin..

Price: $18.95

Psychotherapy East & West

Tue, 01 Sep 2026 05:18:45 +0000

Before he became a counterculture hero, Alan Watts was known as an incisive scholar of Eastern and Western psychology and philosophy. In this 1961 classic, Watts demonstrates his deep understanding of both Western psychotherapy and the Eastern spiritual philosophies of Buddhism, Taoism, Vedanta, a..

Price: $16.95

Encyclopedia of Goddesses and Heroines

Tue, 01 Sep 2026 05:07:16 +0000

More Than 1,000 Goddesses and Heroines from around the World

Groundbreaking scholar Patricia Monaghan spent her life researching, writing about, and documenting goddesses and heroines from all religions and all corners of the globe. Her work demonstrated that from th..

Price: $34.95