Maria Heim is George Lyman Crosby 1896 & Stanley Warfield Crosby Professor in Religion, Amherst College, USA. Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad is a Fellow of the British Academy, and Distinguished Professor of Comparative Religion and Philosophy at Lancaster University, UK. Roy Tzohar is Associate Professor in the Department of East and South Asian Studies at Tel Aviv University, Israel.
This Handbook is a splendid collection of essays by scholars well-established and some still early in their careers. Resisting the habit of fitting Indian understandings of experience into old or new theories imported from the West, the volume's thirteen essays go deep into South Asia's Sanskrit and vernacular traditions to find and make use of fresh vocabulary and concepts apt to that South Asian context but also, by extension, to bringing fresh insight into conversations about experience in the academy globally. After this volume, we will not want to think of experience and experiences in the same way again. This is indeed a research handbook that will adorn the bookshelves of scholars and students for a generation and more. * Francis X. Clooney, SJ, Parkman Professor of Divinity, Harvard University, USA *