Sherma, Rita D.

Rita D. Sherma, PhD, is Director of the Graduate Theological Union’s Shingal Center for Dharma Studies, Chair of the CDS Sustainable Societies Initiative, Associate Professor and Core Doctoral Faculty at the GTU, Berkeley, CA. She is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Dharma Studies (Springer Publ.); publications include Hermeneutics and Hindu Thought:Toward a Fusion of Horizons • Contemplative Studies & Hinduism: Meditation, Devotion, Prayer, & Worship • Contemplative Studies & Jainism • Ecology & Indian Philosophy (forthcoming).

Purushottama Bilimoria is Distinguished Teaching Fellow and Core Doctoral Faculty at Graduate Theological Union; he is honorary professor at the Deakin University and senior fellow at Melbourne University in Australia. Publications: Indian Ethics Vols. I, & Vol II Gender Justice and Ecology (forthcoming) • Globalization, Transnationalism, Gender and Ecological Engagement • Routledge History of Indian Philosophy.