Gavin Dennis Flood FBA (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]

Published works [ edit ]

• "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 .

See also [ edit ]

• Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies

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External links [ edit ]

• Website Archived 16 August 2017 at the Wayback Machine