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Henriette Hanky is a doctoral candidate in the Study of Religions at the University of Bergen, Norway. She works on a research project on contemporary forms of the Osho/Sannyas movement in Europe and India. She has published articles on Osho-related meditation retreats, new religious movements and mediatization as well as on religion and embodiment.

Knut A. Jacobsen is Professor in the Study of Religions at the University of Bergen. His most recent publications include the Routledge Handbook of South Asian Religions (2021), Handbook of Hinduism in Europe (2020) and Yoga in Modern Hinduism (2018). He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the six-volumed Brill’s Encyclopedia of Hinduism (Brill, 2009–2015).

István Keul is Professor in the Study of Religions at the University of Bergen, Norway. His areas of research include various aspects of the history and sociology of South Asian religions. He is the author of a monograph on the Hindu deity Hanumān and has edited volumes on tantra, yoginīs, Banaras and consecration rituals, and recently Spaces of Religion in Urban South Asia (2021, Routledge)