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'''Gavin Flood''' a prominent scholar of Hinduism with specialization in [[Shaivism]], [[phenomenology]], [[comparative religion]] and theories of the text.<ref name=Flood2003>{{cite journal |
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{{Short description|British scholar of comparative religion (born 1954)}} |
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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 |
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}}</ref> From October 2005 he is an Academic Director of [[OCHS]][http://www.ocvhs.com/friends/documents/OCHS%20case%20for%20support.pdf] which is a Recognised Independent Centre of the University of Oxford. |
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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> |
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</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> |
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</ref> and is currently the senior lecturer in Religious Studies at the [[University of Stirling]], Scotland. |
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==Published works== |
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With research interests that span South Asian traditions,<ref> |
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* {{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}} |
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* {{cite book |last=Flood |first=Gavin |display-authors=0 |year=1996 |title=An Introduction to Hinduism |place=Cambridge |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-43878-0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KpIWhKnYmF0C}} |
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* {{cite book |editor=Gavin Flood |title=The Blackwell Companion to Hinduism |year=2003 |place=Oxford |publisher=[[Blackwell Publishing|Blackwell]] |isbn=0-631-21535-2 |display-editors=0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SKBxa-MNqA8C}} |
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* {{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}} |
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* {{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}} |
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* {{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}} |
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* {{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}} |
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* {{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}} |
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* {{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}} |
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</ref> Prof. Flood 's history of research and publication is notable. His publications include ''[http://assets.cambridge.org/97805214/33044/frontmatter/9780521433044_frontmatter.pdf 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''. |
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* {{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}} |
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==See also== |
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Prof.Flood remarked: "I have always had a general interest in Hinduism,even as a boy when I remember reading an article in the Encyclopedia Britannica that was utterly compelling and utterly incomprehensible for me at the time!" Hindu studies, he says, should be devoted to "the deepening of knowledge about Hindu traditions, the development of reflection on the arts and literature (particularly in the vernacular) of Indian culture, and the development of Hindu theological reasoning from within those traditions,in ways that meet modern criteria of rigour.<ref name=Flood1998>{{cite journal |
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* [[Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies]] |
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| journal = Themes and Issues in Hinduism |
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}}</ref> We might add that the [[Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies]] has a further pedagogical responsibility to disseminate information and knowledge about Hindu traditions to both 'insiders' and 'outsiders'."<ref> |
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}}</ref><ref name=Flood1999>{{cite journal |
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| year = 1999 |
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| title = Hinduism Reconsidered |
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| journal = Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London |
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| volume = 62 |
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==Publications== |
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* The Tantric Body: The Secret Tradition of Hindu Religion.'' London: I.B. Tauris,2006 |
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* ''The Ascetic Self: Subjectivity, Memory and Tradition.'' (Cambridge University Press 2006)<ref name=Flood2004>{{cite book |
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* ''Beyond Phenomenology: Rethinking the Study of religion.'' (Cassell 1999) |
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* ''Introduction to Hinduism'' (Cambridge University Press 1996)<ref name=Flood1996>{{cite book |
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* Editor of ''The Blacwell Companion to Hinduism'' (Blackwell 2003).<ref name=Fenn2001>{{cite book |
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| title = The Blackwell Companion to Sociology of Religion |
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* Rites of passage (1994)<ref name=Holm1994>{{cite book |
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| coauthors = Bowker, J.W. |
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| year = 1994 |
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| title = Rites of Passage |
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==References and notes== |
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==See also== |
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* [[Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies]] |
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* [[Krishnology]] |
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Gavin Flood | |
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| Born | 1954 (age 69–70) |
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| 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 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.
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[edit]References and notes
[edit]- ^ 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.
- ^ Brockington, John (1998). "Review of An Introduction to Hinduism". Indo-Iranian Journal. 41. Springer: 78–82. doi:10.1023/A:1003055919458. S2CID 189767501.
- ^ "University of Oxford, Faculty of Theology and Religion". theology.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 16 August 2017. (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". Archived from the original on 5 June 2019. Retrieved 18 March 2019.
External links
[edit]- Website Archived 16 August 2017 at the Wayback Machine
