Academic interests
- Indian yoga tradition with a special focus on the accounts of the changes which began in the postcolonial period and still continue today („modern yoga”), the history of yoga in Poland - its adaptation and specificity (until 1939; yoga during the Polish People's Republic 1947-1989)
- Polish esoteric traditions until1939;
- vegetarianism in Poland until 1939 – the idea, practice and promotion;
- the transformation of contemporary spirituality, with a particular emphasis on themes of oriental origin;
- the theory of religion, myth and ritual.
Selected publications
- 2024, Ezoteryczny krajobraz zdrowia i uzdrawiania Wisły jako element polskiej duchowości alternatywnej Śląska Cieszyńskiego [The Esoteric Landscape of Health and Healing in Wisła as an Element of Polish Alternative Spirituality in Cieszyn Silesia], [in:] I. Trzcińska, R. Czyż (eds.), Świat od nowa, t. 1: Programy alternatywnej duchowości na Śląsku Cieszyńskim w XX wieku [The World Anew, Vol. 1: Alternative Spirituality Programs in Cieszyn Silesia in the 20th Century], AGH University Press, Kraków, p. 281-314.
- 2024, 'Jasną jest droga przede mną.' Życie i dzieło Wandy Dynowskiej Umadevi [‘Bright is the Path ahead of Me.’ The Life and Work of Wanda Dynowska Umadevi], Libron, Kraków, p. 584 [coauthored with Izabela Trzcińska].
- 2023, W poszukiwaniu duchowej syntezy. Eksperymentalny tekst ezoteryczny z 1921 roku [In Search of Spiritual Synthesis: An Experimental Esoteric Text from 1921], „Teksty Drugie” no 4, p. 343–358, [coauthored with Monika Rzeczycka].
- 2022, 'Free Godlike Soul': The image of William James in the letters of Wincenty Lutosławski. Prolegomenon to the Study of Wincenty Lutosławski’s correspondence with William James, “Cogent Arts & Humanities”, t. 9, nr 1, p. 1-26.
- 2020, Dieta jarska jako podstawa dobrostanu ciała i ducha w ujęciu polskich ezoteryków schyłku XIX i pierwszej połowy XX wieku [Vegetarian Diet as the Foundation of Physical and Spiritual Well-Being According to Polish Esoteric Thinkers of the Late 19th and Early 20th Century], [in:] Polskie Tradycje Ezoteryczne 1890–1939. Tom V. Idee przewodnie [Polskie Tradycje Ezoteryczne 1890–1939. Tom V. Idee przewodnie], M. Dobkowski, T. Cegielski (eds.), Gdańsk University Press, Gdańsk, p. 210-241
- 2019, The Temple Road Towards a Great India. Birla Mandirs as a Strategy for Reconstructing Nation and Tradition, Jagiellonian University Press, Kraków, p. 680 (coauthored with Marta Kudelska, Dorota Kamińska Jones, Agnieszka Staszczyk).
- 2019, Joga w Polsce od końca XIX wieku do 1939 roku: konteksty ezoteryczne i interpretacje [Yoga in Poland from the Late 19th Century to 1939: Esoteric Contexts and Interpretations], Jagiellonian University Press, Kraków, p. 556
- 2019, From Rāmacharaka’s “Standard of the Normal Man” to Lutosławski’s Strategy of National Revival. How Rāmacharaka’s interpretation of Yoga fits with the early stage of Yoga adaptation in Poland, „Anthropos”, 114(2), p. 437–452
- 2019, Inne formacje ezoteryczne : projekty przemiany człowieka, ludzkości, świata [Other Esoteric Formations: Projects for the Transformation of the Human Being, Humanity, the World], [in:] D. Oboleńska (ed.), Polskie tradycje ezoteryczne 1890-1939: źródła i dokumenty [Polskie Tradycje Ezoteryczne 1890–1939: Sources and Documents], Gdańsk Univeristy Press, Gdańsk, p. 235–330.
Research projects
- Ministry of Science and Higher Education „Science for Society” grant “Alternative Spirituality Programs in Cieszyn Silesia from the Late 19th Century to the 1970s” [NdS/529030/2021/2021].
- NPRH research grant “Polish Culture in relations to the Western Esoteric Philosophy in the years 1890-1939” [2bH 15 0186 83].
- NCN research grant “Birla mandirs – the contemporary Hindu temple complexes as an example of modernisation by going back to tradition” [UMO-2013/09/B/HS1/02005].
Other achievements
- Member of Polish Society for the Study of Western Esotericism.
- Editor of the “Bezkresy kultury” [Infinitudes of Culture] publishing series published in cooperation with the Jagiellonian University Press.
