"This ... volume includes some noteworthy lectures focusing on problems of comparative studies of religions and cultures. Part I is methodological (Huston Smith, Peter Slater, Edith Wyschogrod), Part II scrutinizes specific religious cultures (J. G. Arapura, Robert A. F. Thurman, Robert Lee, Pheme Perkins), and Part III is more autobiographical (Leroy S. Rouner, J. N. Findlay, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Frederick G. Lawrence). Each of these authors knows at least one religious tradition well, and possesses comparative competence and philosophical sophistication." —Sociological Analysis

"Overall: a good volume for those interested in transcendence, especially those weak on its cross-cultural and Eastern aspects." —Horizons

"By presenting us with two clearly defined contemporary approaches to transcendence and the sacred, these two books (of the Boston University Studies in Philosophy and Religion series), each in their respective ways, have significantly contributed to the cross-cultural conversation wich is increasingingly coming to constitute the horizon we share in our late twentieth-century world." —Philosophy East and West

"No one who has studied this book shoud be tempted to suppose that there is only a single problem of transcendence—historically and culturally constant: transcendence is a paradigm case of a concept whose bearings are dependent on the whole metaphysical and linguistic setting in which it appears. There is a an openness (philosophical and religious) about these studies that is commendable." —Scottish Journal of Philosphy

"This is a collection of essays of varying brilliance cirlcing around the idea of transcendence like Plato's charioteers around the sun." —Heythrop Journal

"This is an exciting collection of short cross-cultural studies." —Journal of the American Academy of Religion

Alan M. Olson is a Professor of the Philosophy of Religion at Boston University.