Robin Rinehart is Professor and Head of the Religious Studies department, and Chair of the Asian Studies program at Lafayette College. Recipient of the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching, she offers courses on world religions, Hinduism, Buddhism, theories of religion, and women and religion, as well as a seminar on atheism and skepticism. Her research has focused on the Hindu, Sikh, and Sufi literatures of the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent. She is the author of One Lifetime, Many Lives: The Experience of Hindu Hagiography (Scholars Press 1999), Debating the Dasam Granth (Oxford 2011), and editor of Contemporary Hinduism: Ritual, Culture, Practice (ABC-CLIO 2004).