Gavin Flood

Gavin Flood
Born 1954
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)

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, the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.[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]

Publications

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.

  • 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.
  • The Importance of Religion: Meaning and Action in Our Strange World. John Wiley & Sons. 2012. ISBN 978-1-4051-8972-9.
  • The Tantric Body: The Secret Tradition of Hindu Religion. I.B.Tauris. 2006. ISBN 978-1-84511-012-3.
  • The Ascetic Self: Subjectivity, Memory and Tradition. Cambridge University Press. 2004. ISBN 978-0-521-60401-7.
  • Beyond Phenomenology: Rethinking the Study of Religion. A&C Black. 1999. ISBN 978-0-304-70570-2.
  • An Introduction to Hinduism. Cambridge University Press. 1996. ISBN 978-0-521-43878-0.
  • The Blackwell Companion to Hinduism. John Wiley & Sons. 2008. ISBN 978-0-470-99868-7. (Editor)
  • "Hinduism". Rites of Passage. A&C Black. 1994. ISBN 978-0-567-31072-9.

See also

References and notes

  1. ↑ Flood, G. (2003). "The Sacred and the Profane: Contemporary Demands On Hermeneutics". Literature and Theology. 17 (4): 478–479. doi:10.1093/litthe/17.4.478. Retrieved 2008-05-15.
  2. ↑ "SpringerLink - Journal Article". www.springerlink.com. Retrieved 2008-05-15.
  3. ↑ "University of Oxford, Faculty of Theology and Religion". theology.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2017-08-16. (A Recognised Independent Centre is an institution that is not part of the University, but works with the University in research and teaching.)
  4. ↑ "British Academy announces 42 new fellows". Times Higher Education. 18 July 2014. Retrieved 18 July 2014.
  5. ↑ "Yale-NUS College Welcomes Two Distinguished Scholars as Named Professors". 11 November 2015. Retrieved 23 January 2016.
  • "University of Oxford, Faculty of Theology and Religion". theology.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2017-08-16.
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