Dr James Madaio

Dr at the Department of South Asia, the Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences

madaio@orient.cas.cz

Biography

James Madaio is a research fellow at the Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague. He is associate editor of The Journal of Hindu Studies and regional editor (Indic traditions) for Bloomsbury’s Introductions to World Philosophies book series. He received his PhD from the University of Manchester, and was a postdoctoral fellow at New Europe College (Bucharest) and an affiliated researcher at the Kuppuswami Sastri Research Institute (Chennai). Dr. Madaio was previously a lecturer at the University of Maryland (USA), University of Manchester (UK), and Charles University (Czech Republic). He currently serves on the Curriculum Development Board for the Continuing Education Department at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies. He is the recent recipient of a multiyear research grant from the Czech Science Foundation.

Research Interests

Advaita Vedānta; historiography and genealogy of modern advaita-related movements; Indic theories of self, pedagogy, and hermeneutics; Cross-cultural philosophy and dialogue.

Selected Publications

Chapters and Articles

“Transparent smoke in the pure sky of consciousness: emotions and liberation-while-living in the Jīvanmuktiviveka”, in: Maria Heim, Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, Roy Tzohar eds., The Bloomsbury Handbook of Classical Indian Emotions, Bloomsbury, London (2021).
“Neglected Advaitas: The Genealogy of Swami Vivekananda’s Cosmopolitan Theology”, in: Rita Sherma ed., Vivekananda: His Life, Legacy and Relevance, Lexington Books, Lanham (2021).
“Vernacular Hinduisms: Texts, Traditions, and Transformation” (co-authored with James S. Bradbury), The Journal of Hindu Studies 13:2 (2020).
“Transformative dialogue in the Yogavāsiṣṭha”, in: Brian Black & Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad eds., In Dialogue with Classical Indian Traditions: Encounter Transformation, and Interpretation, Routledge, London (2019).
“Liberation and Hindu Studies”, The Journal of Hindu Studies 12/1, 1–11 (2019).
“The Instability of Non-dual Knowing: Post-gnosis sādhana in Vidyāraṇya’s Advaita Vedānta”, Journal of Dharma Studies 1/1, 11-30 (2018).
“Rethinking Neo-Vedānta: Swami Vivekananda and the Selective Historiography of Advaita Vedānta”, Religions 8/6 (2017).
“The Shinto Religion”, in: Suheil Bushrui, et al., The Spiritual Heritage of the Human Race: An Introduction to the World’s Religions, Oneworld Publications, Oxford (2010).
“The Religious Traditions of Ancient Greece”, in: Suheil Bushrui, et al., The Spiritual Heritage of the Human Race: An Introduction to the World’s Religions, Oneworld Publications, Oxford (2010).

Dr James Madaio

Biography

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