Isaac Portilla Peláez

Isaac Portilla, PhD (University of St Andrews), Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society, is a philosopher and a scholar of religion and spirituality currently working as a Kone Foundation Grant Researcher in the project Mysticism in Society: Theorizing Mystical Consciousness (MISTIC) at the Faculty of Social Sciences. His work focuses on cross-cultural philosophy and theology applied to peace studies, comparative religion, interfaith mysticism, ethics of the Other, and the future of religion and spirituality. His publications include “Interfaith Dialogue and Mystical Consciousness” (Harvard Theological Review, 2022) and Interfaith Dialogue and Mystical Consciousness in India: Sri Ramana Maharshi, Sri Aurobindo, the Hari-Hara Mystery, and the Hindu-Christian Encounter (Routledge, 2025). He is currently working on a monograph on the Indian philosopher Sri Aurobindo for Routledge Peacemakers dealing with the themes of peace, war, nonviolence, and social transformation.