Amy Rayner Editor

Purushottama Bilimoria works in the areas of Indian & Cross-Cultural philosophy, Continental Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, Critical Thinking, and Diaspora Studies. A Principal Fellow at University of Melbourne, he is Permanent Fellow of the Oxford Center for Hindu Studies; he was named as Lead Scientist (in 2021-2) of Purushottama Centre for Study of Indian Philosophy and Culture at Peoples' Friendship University of Russia, in Moscow; Co-founder of Australasian Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, also serves as Co-Editor-in-Chief of Sophia and Assoc. Editor Journal of Dharma Studies. His recent publications include Testimony in Indian Philosophy (revised, 2018); History of Indian Philosophy (with Amy Rayner, 2018), Religion and Sustainability (edited with Rita D. Sherma, 2021), Contemplative Studies and Hinduism (edited with Rita D. Sherma, 2021); Contemplative Studies and Jainism (co-edited with R. Sherma and C. Bohenac, 2023), The Routledge Companion to Indian Ethics: Women, Justice, Bioethics and Ecology (with Amy Rayner 2023); Engaging Philosophies of Religion; Thinking Across Boundaries (with Gereon Kopf, 2023), Postcolonial Philosophy of Religion (with Andrew Irvine, 2009; 2024, ) and under 200 articles in professional journals. A scholastic institution in own right, he continues to teach and be a mentor at Cal State University (San Francisco and Long Beach, California), and periodically at University of California and the University of Melbourne.

Amy Rayner is a graduate of the University of Melbourne (Philosophy). Amy has worked alongside Purushottama Bilimoria for 15 years, assisting with editing, research and writing. She was editorial secretary of Sophia and is an editorial assistant for Sophia Studies in Cross-Cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures. She served as Assistant Editor and Project Secretary for publications including Globalization, Transnationalism, Gender and Ecological Engagements (2015), Postcolonial Philosophy of Religion (2009) and Routledge’s acclaimed History of Indian Philosophy (2018). Her experience in Buddhism has ranged from an interest in philosophy and mediation to engagement with social change, education and wellbeing. She qualified as a Buddhist Chaplain and secular spiritual carer in Canberra Australia in 2011, and worked at a Buddhist school and orphanage for children living with HIV in Bihar, India. Inspired by the authors of this book, in 2022 Amy trained and now teaches secular ethics at her local primary school in regional Australia.