Gavin Flood
British scholar of comparative religion (born 1954)
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Gavin Dennis Flood (born 1954) is a British scholar of comparative religion specialising in Shaivism and phenomenology,[1] but with research interests that span South Asian traditions.[2] From October 2005 through December 2015, he served in the Faculty of Theology University of Oxford and as the Academic Director of the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies which is a Recognised Independent Centre of the University of Oxford.[3] In 2008, Flood was granted the title of professor of Hindu studies and comparative religion from the University of Oxford. In 2014, he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.[4] In 2016, Flood became the inaugural Yap Kim Hao Professor of Comparative Religious Studies at Yale-NUS College in Singapore.[5] He is a senior research fellow at Campion Hall, University of Oxford.[6]
Gavin Flood | |
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| Born | 1954 (age 71–72) |
| Academic work | |
| Main interests | Religious studies, tantra, comparative religion, Hinduism |
| Notable works | Introduction to Hinduism (Cambridge University Press 1996), Beyond Phenomenology: Rethinking the Study of religion (Cassell 1999). |
Published works
- "Hinduism". Rites of Passage. A&C Black. 1994. ISBN 978-0-567-31072-9.
- An Introduction to Hinduism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1996. ISBN 978-0-521-43878-0.
- The Blackwell Companion to Hinduism. Oxford: Blackwell. 2003. ISBN 0-631-21535-2.
- Beyond Phenomenology: Rethinking the Study of Religion. A&C Black. 1999. ISBN 978-0-304-70570-2.
- The Ascetic Self: Subjectivity, Memory and Tradition. Cambridge University Press. 2004. ISBN 978-0-521-60401-7.
- The Tantric Body: The Secret Tradition of Hindu Religion. I.B.Tauris. 2006. ISBN 978-1-84511-012-3.
- The Importance of Religion: Meaning and Action in Our Strange World. John Wiley & Sons. 2012. ISBN 978-1-4051-8972-9.
- The Truth Within: A History of Inwardness in Christianity, Hinduism, and Buddhism. Oxford: OUP. 2013. ISBN 978-0-19-968456-4.
- The Bhagavad Gita: A New Translation. W. W. Norton & Company. 2013. ISBN 978-0-393-34513-1.
- Religion and the Philosophy of Life. Oxford: OUP. 2019. ISBN 978-0-19-257314-8.