He was formerly an Assistant Professor of Religion at Mississippi State University in the Department of Philosophy and Religion, and a Shackouls Honors College Faculty Fellow. Edelmann was a 2009-2011 Luce Summer Fellow with the American Academy of Religion, and a winner of a 2011 John Templeton Prize for Theological Promise. He is the author of Hindu Theology and Biology: The Bhāgavata Purāṇa and Contemporary Theory (2012) with Oxford University Press, a book that attempts to lay the groundwork for discussion between Hinduism and the natural sciences. Has written for Zygon, the Journal of Vaishnava Studies, the Journal of Consciousness Studies, and the Journal of the American Academy of Religion. Edelmann has been a student of Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavism for nearly twenty years.