Christopher Jain Miller, the co-founder and Vice President of Academic Affairs at Arihanta Institute, completed his PhD in the Study of Religion at the University of California, Davis. He is Professor of Jain and Yoga Studies at Arihanta Institute, Visiting Researcher at the University of Zürich's Asien-Orient-Institut, and Visiting Professor at Claremont School of Theology. Christopher's primary fields of research interest are Yoga Studies and Engaged Jain Studies, and he currently serves as the co-chair of the Yoga in Theory and Practice Unit at the American Academy of Religion as well as on the steering committees for the Dharma Academy of North America (DANAM) and the Yoga Darśana Yoga Sādhana conference. Christopher is the author of Embodying Transnational Yoga: Eating, Singing, and Breathing in Transformation (Routledge 2024) and the co-editor of Engaged Jainism: Critical and Constructive Studies of Jain Social Engagement (SUNY 2025) as well as Beacons of Dharma: Spiritual Exemplars for the Modern Age (Lexington 2020).
Publications
BOOKS
EDITED VOLUMES
Miller, Christopher Jain and Cogen Bohanec, editors. Forthcoming. Engaged Jainism.
Rita Sherma and Christopher Jain Miller, editors. Forthcoming. Ecology & Indian Philosophy: Hindu, Jain, and Yoga Perspectives on Climate and Environmental Mitigation. Proposal in process.
BOOK CHAPTERS
Miller, Christopher Jain. Forthcoming. "Puruṣa bound from within / without looking on”: Gurani Anjali's Sāṃkhya-Yoga Musicon Long Island, New York. " In Yogic Traditions and Sacred Sound Practices in the United States,
edited by Brita Renée Heimark. New York: SUNY Press.
Miller, Christopher Jain. Forthcoming. "Jain Veganism in Dialogue with Jain Speciesism: Clarifying Jain Intra-religious Dialogue as a
Basis for Inter-religious Dialogue." In Bloomsbury’s Handbook on Religion and Food, edited by Yudit Greenberg and Ben Zeller.
Miller, Christopher Jain. Forthcoming. "Engaged Jain Yoga: Seven Cakras, the Buddha, and Mahāvīra on the Berlin Wall." In Engaged Jainism:
Critical and Constructive Approaches to the Study of Jain Social Engagement, edited by Christopher Jain Miller and Cogen Bohanec.
Miller, Christopher Jain. Forthcoming. "Conceptualizing ‘Engaged’ Jainism and the Field of ‘Engaged’ Jain Studies." In Engaged Jainism:
Critical and Constructive Approaches to the Study of Jain Social Engagement, edited by Christopher Jain Miller and Cogen Bohanec.
Miller, Christopher Jain. Forthcoming. “Engaged Jain Epistemology: Jain Responses to Climate Change.” In Ecology & Indian Philosophy: Hindu, Jain, and Yoga Perspectives on Climate and Environmental Mitigation,
edited by Rita Sherma and Christopher Jain Miller.
Miller, Christopher Jain. 2023. "Shedding Light on the Humane Hoax through the Deeper Dimensions of Jain Ahiṃsā." In The Humane Hoax Anthology, edited by Hope Bohanec. Lantern: New York.
Miller, Christopher Jain. 2023. “Contemplating Jivas: The Ecological Implications of Jainism's Elemental Meditations.” In Contemplative Studies in Jainism: Prayer, Veneration, Ritual, and Meditation in Jainism, edited by Rita Sherma and Cogen Bohanec. New York: Routledge.
Miller, Christopher Patrick. 2021. "Christian and Hindu Responses to Christian Yoga Practice in North America." In Routledge Handbook of Hindu-Christian Relations, edited by Chad Bauman and Michelle Voss Roberts. New York, Routledge. 280-293.
Miller, Christopher Patrick. 2020. "Paramahansa Yogananda’s World Brotherhood Colonies: Models for Environmentally Sustainable
and Socially Responsible Living." In Beacons of Dharma: Spiritual Exemplars for the Modern Age, edited by Christopher Patrick Miller, Michael Reading, and Jeffery Long. New York: Lexington Books. 163-180.
Miller, Christopher Patrick and Michael Reading. 2020. "Introduction." In Beacons of Dharma: Spiritual Exemplars for the Modern Age, edited by Christopher Patrick Miller, Michael Reading, and Jeffery Long. New York: Lexington Books. ix-xxi.
Miller, Christopher Patrick. 2018. "Yoga Bodies and Bodies of Water: Solutions for Climate Change in India?" In That All May Flourish: Comparative Religious Environmental Ethics, edited by Laura Hartmann. New York: Oxford University Press. 126-155.
Miller, Christopher Patrick and Dianna Bell. 2018. "Harmonizing Bureaucracy and Bio-Spirituality." In That All May Flourish: Comparative Religious Environmental Ethics, edited by Laura Hartmann. New York: Oxford University Press. 173-176.
Miller, Christopher Patrick. 2019. "Jainism, Yoga, and Ecology: A Course in Contemplative Practice for a World in Pain." In "New Directions in Jaina
Studies." Special issue edited by Anne Vallely. Religions. Vol. 10, no. 4: 1-14.
Miller, Christopher Patrick. 2018. "World Brotherhood Colonies: A Preview of Paramahansa Yogananda's Understudied Vision for Communities Founded upon the Principles of Yoga." Yoga-Mīmāṃsā. Vol. 50 no. 1: 3-9.
PEER-REVIEWED ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES
Miller, Christopher. 2020. "Jainism." In Wiley-Blackwell's Encyclopedia of Sociology, Second Edition, edited by George Ritzer & Chris Rojek.
Miller, Christopher. 2018. "Sāṃkhya." In Hinduism and Tribal Religions, Encyclopedia of Indian Religions, edited by Pankaj Jain, et al. New York: Springer.
BOOK REVIEWS
Miller, Christopher Patrick. 2021. Review of Post Lineage Yoga: From Guru to #MeToo by Theodora Wildcroft. Journal of Contemporary Religion, 36:3, 587-589, DOI: 10.1080/13537903.2021.1923191
Miller, Christopher Patrick. 2021. Review of Living Landscapes: Meditations on the Five Elements in Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain Yogas by Christopher Chapple. Journal of Dharma Studies. Vol4,151–154 (2021).
Miller, Christopher Patrick. 2021. Review of Jainism and Environmental Philosophy: Karma and the Web of Life by Aidan Rankin. International Journal of Hindu Studies, 24: 407–443.
Miller, Christopher Patrick. 2020. Review Essay of An Introduction to Jain Philosophy by Parveen Jain. Journal of Dharma Studies, 3: 193–196.
Miller, Christopher Patrick. 2019. Review of Biography of a Yogi: Paramahansa Yogananda & the Origins of Modern Yoga by Anya P. Foxen. International Journal of Hindu Studies, Vol. 23: no. 1: 342-344.
Miller, Christopher Patrick. 2019. Review of Yoga in Britain: Stretching Spirituality and Educating Yogis by Suzanne Newcombe. Religions of South Asia, Vol. 12, no. 3: 413-416.