Dr Jason Birch
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 […]
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Prof. Karl Baier
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
Dr Andrea Acri
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
Dr Christopher Miller
Christopher Jain Miller, the co-founder and Vice President of Academic Affairs at Arihanta Institute, completed his PhD in the study of Religion at the University of California, Davis. He is a Visiting Researcher at the University of Zürich’s Asien-Orient-Institut and Visiting Professor at Claremont School of Theology where he co-developed and co-runs a remotely available Masters Degree Program focusing on Engaged Jain Studies. His current research focuses on Modern Yoga and Engaged Jainism. Christopher is the author of a number of articles and book chapters concerned with Jainism and the practice of modern yoga.
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Dr Philipp André Maas
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.
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Dr Suzanne Newcombe
Suzanne Newcombe is a Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies at the Open University (UK) where she researches modern yoga from a sociological and social historical perspective. She is also the Director of Inform, a registered charity that researches and provides information on new and minority religions and spiritualities.
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