v. 1. Religious experience and philosophical analysis. I. Autobiographical. 'Methods in my life' -- II. Religious experience and the logic of religious discourse. 'The comparative logical analysis of religious doctrines' -- 'Empiricism and religions' -- 'Understanding religious experience' -- III. Mystical experience. 'Interpretation and mystical experience' -- 'The purification of consciousness and the negative path' -- 'What would Buddhaghosa have made of The cloud of unknowing?' -- IV. Comparative studies. 'Numen, Nirvana, and the definition of religion' -- 'What is religion?' -- 'Theravāda Buddhism and the definition of religion' -- 'The work of the Buddha and the work of Christ' -- 'The logos doctrine and Eastern beliefs' -- 'The comparative view of the person : East and West' -- 'Buddhism and the death of God' -- 'Types of religious liberation : an implicit critique of modern politics' -- V. Religious studies and religious education : method and theory in the study of religions. 'Religion as a discipline?' -- 'What is comparative religion?' -- 'The structure of the comparative study of religion' -- 'Scientific studies of religion' -- 'Religious studies and the comparative perspective -- 'The study of religion as a multidisciplinary and cross-cultural presence among the human sciences' -- 'Comparative religion clichš : crushing the clichš about comparative religion and then accentuating the positive value of the new religious education' -- 'The political implications of religious studies' -- VI. Religious ethics. 'Gods, bliss and morality' -- 'The ethics of Chinese communism' -- 'Clarity and imagination as Buddhist means to virtue' -- 'Religious values and the university' -- 'Sacred civilities' -- 'A global ethics arising from the epistemology of religious and similar value-systems' -- v. 2. Traditions and the challenges of modernity. I. Individual traditions. Buddhism. 'Mysticism and scripture in Theravāda Buddhism' -- 'Theravāda and processes : Nirvāṇa as a meta-process' -- 'The dramatic effect of the Buddha on Western theories of religion' -- Hinduism. 'Indian arguments about the existence of God' -- 'The analogy of meaning and the tasks of comparative philosophy' -- 'Swami Vivekananda as a philosopher' -- 'Integral knowledge and the four theories of existence' -- Chinese religions/worldviews. 'Reflections on Chinese religious and other worldviews in regard to modernization' -- 'Moaism and religion' -- 'The bounds of religion and the transition from the Tao to Mao' -- Christianity. 'Myth and transcendence' -- Islam. Islamic responses to the West -- Salman Rushdie in a plural world -- Shamanism. 'The twenty-first century and small peoples' -- New religious movements. Distinctively Californian spiritual movements -- II. Worldview analysis : religions in the modern world. 'Religion and polity : reflections on the history of religions and the analysis of politics : a question of definition' -- 'Religion and nationalism in India and Sri Lanka' -- 'Buddhism, Sri Lanka, and the prospects for peace' -- 'The importance of diasporas' -- III. Christian theology of religions and interfaith dialogue. 'Revelation, reason and religions' -- The relation between Christianity and the other great religions' -- 'God's body' -- 'Soft natural theology' -- IV. Plurality of religions : religious interpretations. 'The convergence of religions' -- 'A contemplation of absolutes' -- 'Models for understanding the relations between religions' -- 'Pluralism' -- V. Plurality of religions : ethico-political implications. 'On knowing what is uncertain' -- 'The epistemology of pluralism : the basis of liberal philosophy' -- 'Does a universal standard of value need to be higher-order?' -- 'Worldview-pluralism : an important paradox and its possible solution' -- VI. Conclusion. 'An ultimate vision.'