He completed his PhD at Columbia University. His research focuses on early modern devotional (bhakti) and tantric/yogic religiosity in north India and the interrelations of magic, science, and religion in the rise of Indian and Western modernities. He is currently at work on his first book, tentatively entitled Bhakti “Religion” and Tantric “Magic”: Yogis, Poets, Sufis, and Kings in Early Modern North India. Posted in Reviews | Tagged Bodies of Song, hinduism, india, kabir, Linda Hess, patton burchett, poetry, religious studies