Religious and Spiritual Practices in India: A Positive Psychological Perspective

Kamlesh Singh is currently Professor (Psychology) at the Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, IIT Delhi. She has published two (co-authored) books--"Measures of Positive Psychology: Development & Validation" (2016) with Springer and "Translational Research and Applied Psychology in India" (2019) with Sage publishers. She is also Author of the award-winning book "Bhartiya Sandarbh me Vyavaharik Sakaratmak manovigyan" (2018). It was awarded the Rajbhasha Gaurav Award by the Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt. of India. She has published over 100 research papers in peer-reviewed national and international journals and 17 book chapters. In 2019, she was Recipient of the prestigious "Shane J. Lopez" for professional contributions to the field of Positive Psychology by the Section on Positive Psychology, American Psychological Association.

Gaurav Saxena is a Research Scholar at the School of Psychological Science, University of Bristol, United Kingdom. After completing his master's in Experimental Psychology from the University of Bristol, United Kingdom, he worked as a Researcher at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India and the Department of Psychology, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom. He has a track record of publications in reputed and high-impact journals. He has worked on numerous international and cross-disciplinary projects, which have been funded by government national and international bodies, such as Rajya Anand Sansthan, Government of Madhya Pradesh, and the European Research Council. His research interests cover a wide range of topics, including positive psychology, well-being, mental health literacy, and decolonizing psychology education and research.

Kamlesh Singh目前是德里印度理工學院人文與社會科學系的心理學教授。她出版了兩本（共同作者）書籍——《正向心理學的測量：發展與驗證》（2016年，與Springer合作）和《印度的轉化研究與應用心理學》（2019年，與Sage出版社合作）。她還是獲獎書籍《在印度背景下的實用正向心理學》（2018年）的作者。該書獲得了印度內政部頒發的Rajbhasha Gaurav獎。她在同行評審的國內外期刊上發表了超過100篇研究論文和17個書章。2019年，她因在正向心理學領域的專業貢獻而獲得美國心理學會正向心理學分會頒發的著名“Shane J. Lopez”獎。

Gaurav Saxena是英國布里斯托大學心理科學學院的研究學者。在布里斯托大學完成實驗心理學碩士學位後，他曾在印度德里印度理工學院人文與社會科學系和英國利物浦大學心理學系擔任研究員。他在知名且高影響力的期刊上有多篇出版紀錄。他參與了多個國際和跨學科的項目，這些項目獲得了國內外政府機構的資助，如中央邦政府的Rajya Anand Sansthan和歐洲研究委員會。他的研究興趣涵蓋廣泛的主題，包括正向心理學、幸福感、心理健康素養以及去殖民化心理學教育和研究。