Gavin Flood

Gavin Dennis Flood (born 1954) FBA 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 November 2015, it was announced that Dr. Flood would become the inaugural Yap Kim Hao Professor of Comparative Religious Studies at Yale-NUS College in Singapore; taking up the position from January 2016.^[5]

Flood's publications include; An Introduction to Hinduism, Body and Cosmology in Kashmir Saivism and Beyond Phenomenology: Rethinking the Study of Religion. He is also the editor of The Blackwell Companion to Hinduism.

Publications

• The Truth Within: A History of Inwardness in Christianity, Hinduism, and Buddhism. Oxford University Press, 2013
• The Bhagavad Gita: A New Translation. Norton, 2012
• The Importance Of Religion: Meaning In Our Strange World. Wiley-Blackwell, 2012
• The Tantric Body: The Secret Tradition of Hindu Religion. London: I.B. Tauris, 2006
• The Ascetic Self: Subjectivity, Memory and Tradition. (Cambridge University Press 2006)^[6]
• Beyond Phenomenology: Rethinking the Study of religion. (Cassell 1999)
• Introduction to Hinduism (Cambridge University Press 1996)^[7]
• Editor of The Blackwell Companion to Hinduism (Blackwell 2003).^[8]
• Rites of Passage (1994)^[9]

See also

• Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies

References and notes

External links

• "University of Oxford, Faculty of Theology". resources.theology.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2008-05-15.