About

Andrea R. Jain, Ph.D. is professor of religious studies at Indiana University, Indianapolis, editor of the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, and author of Selling Yoga: From Counterculture to Pop Culture (Oxford 2014) and Peace Love Yoga: The Politics of Global Spirituality (Oxford, 2020). She received her doctorate degree in religious studies from Rice University in 2010. She writes about capitalism, religion, sex, and society in our contemporary world. 

Jain’s current work, including the book project and documentary film Predation, offers an anti-capitalist critique that centers questions about our current planetary crisis with special attention to the relationships between human and other-than-human animals. She’s a member of the Finite Futures team, which aims to design and implement a new model of generative, public-facing, multidisciplinary engagement at the nexus of religion, technology, and justice in the Anthropocene. Her contributions focus on the capitalocene, that is, the uniquely disastrous changes that are a consequence of the social values and practices of late capitalism. She also works with the Religion & Sexual Abuse Project where her contributions analyze the ways harm toward other-than-human animals and sexual and gendered violence toward humans co-constitute one another in a social context that commodifies both and values them in terms of their productive labor.