Gavin Dennis Flood Template:Post-nominals (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
- Rites of Passage{{#if:Flood|, Flood}. A&C Black(1994). ISBN 978-0-567-31072-9
- An Introduction to Hinduism{{#if:Flood|, Flood}. Cambridge University Press(1996). ISBN 978-0-521-43878-0
- The Blackwell Companion to Hinduism{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. John Wiley & Sons(2008). ISBN 978-0-470-99868-7
- Beyond Phenomenology: Rethinking the Study of Religion{{#if:Flood|, Flood}. A&C Black(1999). ISBN 978-0-304-70570-2
- The Ascetic Self: Subjectivity, Memory and Tradition{{#if:Flood|, Flood}. Cambridge University Press(2004). ISBN 978-0-521-60401-7
- The Tantric Body: The Secret Tradition of Hindu Religion{{#if:Flood|, Flood}. I.B.Tauris(2006). ISBN 978-1-84511-012-3
- The Importance of Religion: Meaning and Action in Our Strange World{{#if:Flood|, Flood}. John Wiley & Sons(2012). ISBN 978-1-4051-8972-9
- The Truth Within: A History of Inwardness in Christianity, Hinduism, and Buddhism{{#if:Flood|, Flood}. OUP(2013). ISBN 978-0-19-968456-4
- The Bhagavad Gita: A New Translation{{#if:Flood|, Flood}. W. W. Norton & Company(2013). ISBN 978-0-393-34513-1
- Religion and the Philosophy of Life{{#if:Flood|, Flood}. OUP(2019). ISBN 978-0-19-257314-8
See also
References and notes
- ↑ The Sacred and the Profane: Contemporary Demands On Hermeneutics. Literature and Theology({Template:Year).
- ↑ Review of An Introduction to Hinduism. Indo-Iranian Journal({Template:Date).
- ↑ 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.)
- ↑ British Academy announces 42 new fellows. Times Higher Education(18 July 2014). Retrieved 18 July 2014.
- ↑ Yale-NUS College Welcomes Two Distinguished Scholars as Named Professors(11 November 2015). Retrieved 23 January 2016.
- ↑ Gavin.flood | Campion Hall. Retrieved 2019-03-18.