Author Biography
Philippe Bornet is senior lecturer at the University of Lausanne, in the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations. He completed a doctorate in the comparative history of religions with a study of rituals of hospitality in Jewish and Indian religious texts. After stays in Tübingen and at the University of Chicago, he is currently addressing interactions between India and Europe and the history of Orientalism in late modernity. He has worked on Swiss missionaries in South India in the early twentieth century and on various topics involving the circulation of epistemic, material and visual cultures in this period. He served as treasurer of the International Association for the History of Religions from 2015 to 2020. Recent publications include, as editor, Translocal Lives and Religion (2021), as coauthor with C. Blaser, M. Burger and P. Schreiner, Interweaving Histories: Itineraries between Switzerland and India (1900–1950) (2023) and as coeditor with N. Cattoni, Significant Others, Significant Encounters (2023).
