e-mail: keith.cantu@uj.edu.pl
www: https://jagiellonian.academia.edu/KeithCant%C3%BA
Keith Edward Cantú currently holds the post of Assistant Professor (Postdoc / Research Associate) at the Jagiellonian University, where he is researching modern Tamil yoga traditions and their connection with patronage. He received his doctoral degree in Religious Studies (South Asian religions) at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2021, and was an AIIS Junior Fellow based in Chennai from 2019–20. From 2014 to 2017 he co-edited 'City of Mirrors: Songs of Lālan Sā̃i', a volume of nineteenth-century Bengali songs that were translated by Carol Salomon. His dissertation, entitled “Sri Sabhapati Swami and the ‘Translocalization’ of Śivarājayoga,” examined the Tamil, pan-Indian, and international reception of Sabhapati’s system of yoga, which spans multiple linguistic and cultural worlds, including several modern esoteric currents that incorporate or appropriate yoga. Keith is also the author of several articles and chapters, including “Islamic Esotericism in the Bengali Bāul Songs of Lālan Fakir,” a translation of the “Eighth Instruction” of a Sanskrit alchemical text called the Rasāyanakhaṇḍa about the alchemical wonders of Śrīśailam, and “Sri Sabhapati Swami: The Forgotten Yogi of Western Esotericism.”
