| Gene R. Thursby | Gene Thursby has been a contributor to the World Wide Web Virtual Library for more than a decade. He is Associate Professor Emeritus and from time to time Adjunct Professor at the University of Florida. His academic research ranges across three fields: religions of India, new religious movements, and spirituality and health. He has conducted archival and community research in India, in Britain, and in the United States with projects that have been supported by Fulbright-Hays and AIIS-Smithsonian Institution fellowships as well as the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is the author of Hindu-Muslim Relations in British India (1975), The Sikhs (1992), articles in academic 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). Along with Sushil Mittal, he co-edited The Hindu World (2004), Religions of South Asia (2006), and Studying Hinduism: Key Concepts and Methods (2007). In cooperation with Maya Warrier, he co-edits the Indian Traditions section of the peer-reviewed online journal Religion Compass. He is a member of the Advisory Editorial Board of the International Journal of Hindu Studies and of the Board of Editorial Consultants for Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions. He participates in the interdisciplinary Center for Spirituality and Health at the University of Florida and is an advisor to the Mahatma Gandhi Center for Global Nonviolence at James Madison University. His reviews of books appear in CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries for the Association of College and Research Libraries as well as in other publications. Web Sites Currently Maintained Apophatic.Org | Religiousworlds.Com | VL-Site.Org