People

Ann Gleig recently received her Ph.D. in religious studies from Rice University and is currently a teaching fellow at Millsaps College. Her areas of specialization are Asian religions in America as well as religion and psychology. She has published and presented on numerous aspects of her research, and is presently working on a co-edited book collection (with Lola Williamson) titled Homegrown Gurus: From Hinduism in America to American Hinduism. She is an editor for Religious Studies Review for the sections on the “Sociology and Anthropology of Religion” and a subeditor for “Mysticism, Asian Religions, and Psychology.” She is also interested in innovative pedagogies such as feminist, queer and contemplative pedagogy.

Gudrun Bühnemann is Professor of Sanskrit and South Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Vienna in 1980. Her recent work

Jason Birch (DPhil, Oxon) is a historian of South Asian traditions of yoga and medicine. He is a Senior Research Fellow of the ‘Light on Hatha Yoga’ project, hosted at

Karl Baier is Associate Professor Emeritus at the University of Vienna (Institute for the Study of Religions) and has a long standing interest in the history and modernisation of yoga

Andrea Acri is Maître de conférences (tenured Assistant Professor) in Tantric Studies at the Religious Studies Section of the École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE, PSL University, Paris), and contracted researcher at the École française

Philipp André Maas is currently a research associate at the Institute for Indology and Central Asian Studies, University of Leipzig and was previously an assistant professor at the Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies at the University of Vienna, Austria. He received his M.A. (1997) and Dr. phil. (2004) degrees from the University of Bonn, Germany, where he studied Indology, Comparative Religious Studies, Tibetology and Philosophy.