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| name = Gavin Flood
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| main_interests = [[Religious studies]], [[tantra]], [[comparative religion]], [[Hinduism]]
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| major_works = ''Introduction to Hinduism'' (Cambridge University Press 1996), ''Beyond Phenomenology: Rethinking the Study of religion'' (Cassell 1999).
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'''Gavin Dennis Flood''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FBA}} (born 1954) is a British scholar of [[comparative religion]] specialising in [[Shaivism]] and [[Phenomenology (religion)|phenomenology]],<ref name=Flood2003>{{cite journal
| last= Flood|first= G.
| year = 2003
| title = The Sacred and the Profane: Contemporary Demands On Hermeneutics
| journal = Literature and Theology
| volume = 17
| issue = 4
| pages = 478–479
| doi = 10.1093/litthe/17.4.478
}}</ref> but with research interests that span South Asian traditions.<ref>
{{cite journal|doi=10.1023/A:1003055919458|journal=Indo-Iranian Journal |volume=41|pages=78–82 |date= 1998
|title=Review of ''An Introduction to Hinduism''
|publisher=Springer
|last=Brockington
|first=John
|s2cid=189767501 }}
</ref>
From October 2005 through December 2015, he served in the [[Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Oxford|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.<ref>
{{cite web
|url=http://www.theology.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-gavin-flood
|title=University of Oxford, Faculty of Theology and Religion
|publisher=theology.ox.ac.uk
|access-date=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.)
</ref> 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 [[British Academy#Fellowship|Fellow of the British Academy]].<ref name="BA Fellow">{{cite web | url=http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/british-academy-announces-42-new-fellows/2014585.article | title=British Academy announces 42 new fellows | publisher=Times Higher Education | date=18 July 2014 | access-date=18 July 2014}}</ref> In 2016, Flood became the inaugural Yap Kim Hao Professor of Comparative Religious Studies at [[Yale-NUS College]] in Singapore.<ref name="Yap Kim Hao Professor">{{cite web | url=https://www.yale-nus.edu.sg/newsroom/yale-nus-college-welcomes-two-distinguished-scholars-as-named-professors/ | title=Yale-NUS College Welcomes Two Distinguished Scholars as Named Professors | date=11 November 2015 | access-date= 23 January 2016}}</ref> He is a senior research fellow at [[Campion Hall, Oxford|Campion Hall, University of Oxford]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.campion.ox.ac.uk/user/50 |title=Gavin.flood | Campion Hall |access-date=2019-03-18 |archive-date=2019-06-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190605003655/http://www.campion.ox.ac.uk/user/50 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Published works==
* {{cite book |last=Flood |first=Gavin |editor1-first=Jean |editor1-last=Holm |editor2-first=John |editor2-last=Bowker |title=Rites of Passage |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-wVMFLEXeksC |year=1994 |publisher=A&C Black |isbn=978-0-567-31072-9 |chapter=Hinduism |display-authors=0 |display-editors=0 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-wVMFLEXeksC&pg=PA66}}
* {{cite book |last=Flood |first=Gavin |display-authors=0 |year=1996 |title=An Introduction to Hinduism |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-43878-0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KpIWhKnYmF0C}}
* {{cite book |editor=Gavin Flood |title=The Blackwell Companion to Hinduism |year=2008 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |isbn=978-0-470-99868-7 |display-editors=0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SKBxa-MNqA8C}}
* {{cite book |last=Flood |first=Gavin |title=Beyond Phenomenology: Rethinking the Study of Religion |year=1999 |publisher=A&C Black |isbn=978-0-304-70570-2 |display-authors=0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4ODTAwAAQBAJ}}
* {{cite book |last=Flood |first=Gavin |year=2004 |title=The Ascetic Self: Subjectivity, Memory and Tradition |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-60401-7 |display-authors=0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fapXqp-JSL0C}}
* {{cite book |last=Flood |first=Gavin |title=The Tantric Body: The Secret Tradition of Hindu Religion |year=2006 |publisher=I.B.Tauris |isbn=978-1-84511-012-3 |display-authors=0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GKBV7QZ7BBQC}}
* {{cite book |last=Flood |first=Gavin |title=The Importance of Religion: Meaning and Action in Our Strange World |year=2012 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |isbn=978-1-4051-8972-9 |display-authors=0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pwrVW--ZfioC}}
* {{cite book |last=Flood |first=Gavin |title=The Truth Within: A History of Inwardness in Christianity, Hinduism, and Buddhism |year=2013 |publisher=OUP |location=Oxford |isbn=978-0-19-968456-4 |display-authors=0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uW5BAQAAQBAJ}}
* {{cite book |last=Flood |first=Gavin |title=The Bhagavad Gita: A New Translation |year=2013 |publisher=W. W. Norton & Company |isbn=978-0-393-34513-1 |display-authors=0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PDYEAwAAQBAJ}}
* {{cite book |last=Flood |first=Gavin |title=Religion and the Philosophy of Life |year=2019 |publisher=OUP |location=Oxford |display-authors=0 |isbn=978-0-19-257314-8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uviFDwAAQBAJ}}

==See also==
* [[Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies]]

==References and notes==
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==External links==
* [http://www.theology.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-gavin-flood Website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170816195545/http://www.theology.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-gavin-flood |date=16 August 2017 }}

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