Advisor

Rita D. Sherma, PhD

Professor Rita D. Sherma, PhD, is founding Director and Associate Professor at Graduate Theological Union’s (GTU)Shingal Center for Dharma Studies | Core Doctoral Faculty | Department Chair of Theology & Ethics | and Co-Chair of Sustainability 360 Initiative at GTU, Berkeley, CA.

Formerly, she was the Swami Vivekananda Visiting Professor in Hindu Studies at USC, Los Angeles. She holds an MA in Women’s Studies in Religion, and a PhD in Theology & Ethics from Claremont Graduate University, CA. Dr. Sherma has published widely with over fifty articles, book chapters, and published scholarly essays. She has authored/edited eight books, including (amongst others):

• Radical Immanence: An Ecological, Emancipatory, Theology of the Divine Feminine (forthcoming)  
• Contemplative Studies & Hinduism: Meditation, Devotion, Prayer, & Worship
• Swami Vivekananda: His Life, Legacy, & Liberative Ethics
• Hermeneutics & Hindu Thought: Toward a Fusion of Horizons
• Woman & Goddess in Hinduism: Reinterpretations & Re-evisionings

She is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Dharma Studies (Springer), and an Associate Editor for Springer’s Encyclopedia of Indian Religions (A. Sharma, General Editor). She serves on the Editorial Board of “Reading Religion” Journal (an AAR publication); serves as Advisor to the Parliament of the World’s Religions Climate Action-sponsored Faith for the Earth online & print publishing project;  and serves on the Advisory Board of the Yale Forum for Religion & Ecology. Dr. Sherma is a member of the Advisory Board of the Yale Forum for Religion and Ecology. Her most recent volume (co-edited with P. Bilimoria) is Religion & Sustainability ~Interreligious Resources, Interdisciplinary Responses: Intersection of Sustainability Studies and Religion, Theology, Philosophy, published through Springer Nature’s United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Series (UNEP SDGs), a project of the UNEP Publisher’s Compact.