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"The Matter of Wonder: Abhinavagupta's Panentheism and New Materialism is a cross-cultural and multi-disciplinary work that draws from a broad palette, including medieval Indian philosophy, contemporary analytic philosophy, neuroscience, physics, and information theory...The book shows how useful it can be to work across traditions and disciplines to reveal new insights about consciousness. * Anand Jayprakash Vaidya, International Journal for Philosophy of Religion * The Matter of Wonder interrogates our notions of human-nonhuman relations, agency, will, and sentience, raising questions about what is ""living"" and ""alive,"" and thereby raises questions on the nature of consciousness itself. The book is an important contribution to understanding panentheism through the lens of Indic philosophy. Abhinavgupta's theory can enrich western accounts of new materialism, as it discusses the awareness of the innate and pervasive subjectivity of materiality. * Amee Parikh, Reading Religion *"

The Matter of Wonder: Abhinavagupta's Panentheism and New Materialism is a cross-cultural and multi-disciplinary work that draws from a broad palette, including medieval Indian philosophy, contemporary analytic philosophy, neuroscience, physics, and information theory...The book shows how useful it can be to work across traditions and disciplines to reveal new insights about consciousness. * Anand Jayprakash Vaidya, International Journal for Philosophy of Religion *

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Loriliai Biernacki is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Her research interests include Hinduism, gender, New Materialism, and the interface between religion and science. Her first book, Renowned Goddess of Desire: Women, Sex and Speech in Tantra (2007) won the Kayden Award in 2008. She is co-editor of God's Body: Panentheism across the World's Religious Traditions (2013).

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