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Research Fellow at the Department of South Asia, Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences
madaio@orient.cas.cz
James Madaio is a research fellow at the Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague and at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies. He is Editor of the Journal of Hindu Studies (Oxford University Press) and Regional Editor (Indic traditions) of Bloomsbury Academic’s Introductions to World Philosophies book series. His monograph, Advaita Vedānta and the Story of Liberation: Vidyāraṇya’s Narrative Philosophy, is under contract with Oxford University Press. He is also an editor of two forthcoming volumes: The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Non-duality in Indian Thought (co-edited with Jonathan Duquette) and Provincializing Pluralism: Difference and Diversity in South Asian Traditions (co-edited with Brian Black). 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). He was previously a lecturer at the University of Maryland, the University of Manchester, and Charles University. He is currently Adjunct Faculty at the Consciousness Studies programme at the National Institute of Advanced Studies in Bangalore and is the recent recipient of a multiyear research grant from the Czech Science Foundation.
Advaita Vedānta; historiography and genealogy of modern advaita-related movements; Indic theories of self, pedagogy, and hermeneutics; Cross-cultural philosophy and dialogue; Transnational South Asian traditions and the Global Occult
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