Jacob H. Sherman

Jacob Holsinger Sherman, PhD (University of Cambridge) is University Lecturer in Philosophy of Religion at Cambridge University. He taught previously King’s College London and at the California Institute of Integral Studies, where he continues to hold an appointment as Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion. His writings have appeared in journals such as Religious Studies, Modern Theology, Spiritus and The Heythrop Journal. In addition to co-editing The Participatory Turn: Spirituality, Mysticism, Religious Studies (SUNY Press, 2009), he is the author of Partakers of the Divine: Contemplation and the Practice of Philosophy (Fortress Press, 2014).