Jeffrey John Kripal

Jeffrey J. Kripal is the J. Newton Rayzor Professor in and chair of the Department of Religious Studies at Rice University. He is the author of "Kali's Child: The Mystical and the Erotic in the Life and Teachings of Ramakrishna" and "Roads of Excess, Palaces of Wisdom: Eroticism and Reflexivity in the Study of Mysticism," both published by the University of Chicago Press.

Jeffrey J. Kripal is the J. Newton Rayzor Professor in and chair of the Department of Religious Studies at Rice University. He is the author of "Kali's Child: The Mystical and the Erotic in the Life and Teachings of Ramakrishna" and "Roads of Excess, Palaces of Wisdom: Eroticism and Reflexivity in the Study of Mysticism," both published by the University of Chicago Press. See less