Finnian Moore Gerety is Senior Research Fellow in the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Oxford and co-Principal Investigator of the research project, MANTRAMS – “Mantras in Religion, Media and Society in Global Southern Asia,” funded by a Synergy Grant from the European Research Council. He combines the study of Sanskrit texts and the history of religion to investigate how ritual, mantras, yoga, and meditation have shaped Hindu traditions of India from the late Bronze Age up through today. He is the author of This Whole World is OM: Mantra, Yoga, and the the Sacred Syllable in Early India (Oxford University Press, forthcoming), the first-ever monograph on OM, the preeminent sacred syllable of Indian religions. Finn received his PhD in South Asian Studies from Harvard; he has also been a postdoctoral fellow at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music and Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Brown.