Senior lecturer, Department of Comparative Religion, Åbo Akademi University
Biography:
Dr Måns Broo is a senior lecturer at the Department of Comparative Religion, Åbo Akademi University, Finland. He was awarded the 2017 Donner Research Prize for his book The Rādhā Tantra: A critical edition and annotated translation (Routledge, 2017). Dr Broo is also editor of the award-winning Finnish yoga magazine Ananda.
Research Area/s:
Aspects of intentionality, agency and identity formation in contemporary Finnish popular culture, Hindu Studies and Yoga.
Research Interests:
Yoga – both its history and contemporary forms –, the intersections between Vaiṣṇavism and Tantrism in pre-modern Bengal, Caitanya Vaishnava ritual practices, modern middle-class Hinduism, and issues of agency and identity within modern yoga practices.
Selected Publications:
The Rādhā Tantra: A critical edition and annotated translation (Routledge, 2017).
Spiritual Guidance Across Religions: A Sourcebook for Spiritual Directors and Other Professionals Providing Counsel to People of Differing Faith Traditions (SkyLight Paths, 2014).
As Good as God. The Guru in Gaudiya Vaisnavism (Abo Akademi University Press, 2003).
Chapters and Articles
“Diversification, Mainstreaming, Commercialization and Domestication – New Religious Movements and Trends in Finland”, in: James R. Lewis & Inga Bårdsen Tøllefsen eds., Handbook of Nordic New Religions, Brill, Leiden, 2015.