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Keith E. Cantú is a PhD candidate in Religious Studies (South Asian religions with an additional emphasis in European medieval studies) at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). His dissertation research is focused on the nineteenth-century Tamil Śaiva yogī Śrī Sabhāpati Swāmī (b. 1840), specifically the "translocalization" of his system of Rājayoga. He is also researching Śrīśacandra Basu (a.k.a. S.C. Vasu, 1861-1918), a Bengali intellectual living in Lahore who was Sabhāpati Swāmī's initial editor as well as an important nineteenth-century translator of Sanskrit texts on Haṭhayoga. From 2014 to 2017 he co-edited 'City of Mirrors', a volume of songs of Lālan Fakir translated by Carol Salomon and recently published by Oxford University Press. Apart from yet sometimes intersecting with this material, Keith has a keen personal and academic interest in the writings of Aleister Crowley (1875-1947) as well as Thelema, the Theosophical Society, and other alternative religious movements.