Editors

Vineet Chander, JD

Coordinator for Hindu Life and Hindu Chaplain at Princeton University, Religious Life Leader at the Lawrenceville School, and Veera and Sam S. Jain Scholar of Vedanta Studies, New York University, where he a doctoral student in higher education. He is co-author of Hindu Chaplaincy (2017).

LUCINDA MOSHER, Th.D

Faculty Associate in Interfaith Studies at Hartford Seminary (Connecticut; former director of its Multifaith Chaplaincy Program. The author of various books and articles pertaining to spiritual care in multireligious contexts and other interreligious concerns, she is based in northeast Florida, where she presides over NeighborFaith Consultancy.

Contributors

Murali Balaji, PhD

Principal, Maruthi Educational Consulting
Lecturer, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania

Raja Gopal Bhattar

Consultant and Author
formerly, Assistant Vice Provost and Executive Director of the Center for Identity + Inclusion, University of Chicago

Joseph Ghanashyam Caruso

Hindu Palliative Care Chaplain, New York Presbyterian Hospital
Co-founder of InSpirit—an end-of-life care initiative providing support,education, and
spiritual care to the dying and those caring for them

Vaishali Gupta Chandrashekar

Creative Cooking Coach; Health and Wellness Coach
formerly, Hindu Chaplain at Wellesley College, Brandeis University, and Babson College

Christopher Key Chapple, PhD

Doshi Professor of Indic and Comparative Theology; Director,
Master of Arts in Yoga Studies Program, Loyola Marymount University
Author, Karma and Creativity (1986); Nonviolence to Animals, Earth, and Self in Asian Traditions (1993)

Gopal K. Gupta, DPhil

Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of Evansville
Author, Maya in the Bhagavata Purana: Human Suffering and Divine Play (forthcoming, 2020)

Varun Khanna, PhD

Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics (Sanskrit), Swarthmore College

Ramdas Lamb, PhD

Professor of Religion, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
formerly, State of Hawai’i prison system spiritual caregiver
Author, Rapt in the Name: The Ramnamis, Ramnam, and Untouchable Religion in Central India (2002)

Jeffery D. Long, PhD

Professor of Religion and Asian Studies, Elizabethtown College
Author, A Vision for Hinduism: Beyond Hindu Nationalism (2007); The Historical Dictionary of Hinduism (2011)

Rachel Fell McDermott, MDiv; PhD

Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures, Barnard College
Author, Singing to the Goddess: Poems to Kālī and Umā from Bengal (2001)

Shama Mehta, MA in Patoral Ministry, BCC

Board-Certified Chaplain, Beaumont Health, Michigan

Ramakrishnan Parameshwaran, MD,

MDiv, ACPE-Clinical Chaplain
PhD Candidate, Graduate Theological Union, University of California (Berkeley)
Chaplain Fellow, Stanford Health Care

Gopal D. Patel

Director, The Bhumi Project—a global Hindu response to climate change Advisor,
United Nations Task Force on Religion and Development
formerly, Students’ Chaplain, Imperial College, London

Viraj Patel, MA

PhD Student, The University of Chicago Divinity School

Anantanand Rambachan, PhD

Professor of Religion, St. Olaf College
Author, Essays in Hindu Theology (2019); The Advaita Worldview: God, World, and Humanity (2006)

Rasanath Das, MBA

Co-founder, Upbuild—an educational social enterprise aimed at maximizing the human potential by creating environments that inspire genuine purpose and authentic connection

Shaunaka Rishi Das

Director, Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies Hindu Chaplain, University of Oxford
Co-author, Hindu Chaplaincy (2017)

Pulin Sanghvi, MBA

Motivational speaker; member, National Board of Directors for PositiveCoaching Alliance
formerly, inaugural Executive Director of Career Services, Princeton University

formerly, Assistant Dean and Director of the Career Management Center, Stanford Graduate School of Business

Swami Sarvaananda, PhD, BCC

Dean, School of Divinity, Hindu University of America

Bramachari V. Sharan, PhD

Director for Dharmic Life and Hindu Spiritual Advisor
Adjunct Professor of Linguistics, Asian Studies, Theology and Religious Studies, Georgetown University

Madhu Vedak Sharma, MSW

Hindu Chaplain, Duke University
Hindu Campus Minister, University of North Carolina
Author, Dharmic Advisor: A Modern Way (2016)

Tahil Sharma

Volunteer Hindu Religious Director, University of Southern California
Hindu-Sikh Interfaith Minister-in-Residence, Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles
Faith Outreach Manager, Brave New Films

Rita Sherma, PhD

Director and Associate Professor of Dharma Studies, Mira and Ajay Shingal Center for Dharma Studies;
Core Doctoral Faculty, Graduate Theological Union (Berkeley, California)

Author, Hinduism and the Divine: Foundations of Hindu Theology (2019)
Author, Vivekananda: His Life, Legacy, & Liberative Ethics (2019)

Asha Shipman, PhD

Director of Hindu Life and Hindu Chaplain, Yale University

Shrestha Singh, MDiv

Spiritual Director in private practice (Chicago), http://shresthasingh.com
formerly, Chaplain to Students of Dharmic Traditions, Brandeis University;
School Minister, Brooks School (Andover, Massachusetts);
Hindu Chaplain, Wellesley College

Amrutur V. Srinivasan, PhD

Lecturer on Hinduism
Officiant for Hindu Weddings and other ceremonies
Author, The Vedic Wedding: Origins, Tradition and Practice (2007); Hinduism for Dummies (2011)