CONTRIBUTOR:

Ferdinando Sardella

AFFILIATION:

TITLE:

Associate Professor

DEPARTMENT:

Ethnology, History of Religions, and Gender Studies

INSTITUTION:

Stockholm University

BIOGRAPHY:

Ferdinando Sardella is an Associate Professor at the Department of Ethnology, History of Religions, and Gender Studies at Stockholm University. He is the co-director of the project “Bengali Vaishnavism in the Modern Period” at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, where he is a research fellow. He is the author of the book Modern Hindu Personalism: The History, Life, and Thought of Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī, published in 2013 by Oxford University Press. He has also coedited The Sociology of Religion in India: Past, Present and Future (with Ruby Sain; 2013), The Legacy of Vaiṣṇavism in Colonial Bengal (with Lucian Wong; 2020), and Brill’s Handbook of Hinduism in Europe (with Knut A. Jacobsen; 2020).