Contemplative PRAXIS and Politics (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781032893471)

James K. Rowe, Canada, University of Victoria. Rowe's interdisciplinary research program is motivated by a desire to understand and strengthen social movements working toward social and ecological justice. His most recent book is Radical Mindfulness: Why Transforming Fear of Death Is Politically Vital (Routledge, 2024). He has published in the journals: The Arrow; BioScience; Mortality; New Political Science; Socialist Studies; Studies in Political Economy; and Theory & Event.

Shannon L. Mariotti, USA, Trinity University. Mariotti's scholarship focuses on democratic theory and practice, in 19th century American Transcendentalism and Romanticism as well as 20th century Critical Social Theory and Modernism. She is the author of Thoreau's Democratic Withdrawal: Alienation, Participation, and Modernity (2010), as well as Adorno and Democracy: The American Years (2016), and, most recently, Contemplative Democracy: Politics, Pedagogy, and Practice (2025). She is also co-editor of A Political Companion to Marilynne Robinson (2016) and The Witch: A Reader in Feminist Political Theory (2026).

Farah Godrej, USA, University of California, Riverside. Godrej's areas of research and teaching include Indian political thought, Gandhi's political thought, comparative political theory, prisons and punishment. She is the author of Cosmopolitan Political Thought: Method, Practice, Discipline (2011); Fred Dallmayr: Cross-Cultural Theory, Post-Secularity, Cosmopolitanism (Routledge, 2017); and Freedom Inside? Yoga and Meditation in the Carceral State (2022).