For nearly forty years Gene Thursby served as a faculty member at the University of Florida and contributed to the study of religion in India, new religious movements, and spirituality and health. He conducted archival and community research in India, Britain, and the United States with support from Fulbright-Hays and AIIS-Smithsonian Institution fellowships and with grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities. He wrote Hindu-Muslim Relations in British India (1975), The Sikhs (1992), articles in journals and reference works, and chapters in edited books that include When Prophets Die (1991), America's Alternative Religions (1995), and Handbook of the Humanities and Aging (2000). With Sushil Mittal, he co-edited The Hindu World (2004 and 2007), Religions of South Asia (2006), and Studying Hinduism: Key Concepts and Methods (2008). He was an editor for the Indian Traditions section of the journal Religion Compass, a member of the Advisory Editorial Board of the International Journal of Hindu Studies, and was on the Board of Editorial Consultants for Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions. While at the University of Florida, he was an early faculty participant in its interdisciplinary Center for Spirituality and Health and an advisor to the founding director of James Madison University's Mahatma Gandhi Center for Global Nonviolence. He continues to review books for CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries published by the Association of College and Research Libraries. Currently Maintained Sites Apophatic.Org | Religiousworlds.Com | Southasianist.Info | VL-Site.Org