Isaac Lubelsky studied at the School of History, Tel Aviv University, where he received his Ph.D in 2005. His diverse research and teaching fields cover the history of Theosophy, modern colonialism, the modern encounter between East and West, New Religions, and the study of modern racism and genocide. His recent book, Celestial India (Equinox, 2012) is a comprehensive study of the history of ideas that evolved as the consequence of East/West encounters during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.