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Gavin Flood
FBA
Gavin Flood FBA
Born	1954 (age 69–70)
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).

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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

"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.

References and notes

^ 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

Website Archived 16 August 2017 at the Wayback Machine

[Flood2003-1] 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.

[2] Brockington, John (1998). "Review of An Introduction to Hinduism". Indo-Iranian Journal. 41. Springer: 78–82. doi:10.1023/A:1003055919458. S2CID 189767501.

[3] "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.)

[BA_Fellow-4] "British Academy announces 42 new fellows". Times Higher Education. 18 July 2014. Retrieved 18 July 2014.

[Yap_Kim_Hao_Professor-5] "Yale-NUS College Welcomes Two Distinguished Scholars as Named Professors". 11 November 2015. Retrieved 23 January 2016.

[6] "Gavin.flood | Campion Hall". Archived from the original on 5 June 2019. Retrieved 18 March 2019.

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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]], the United Kingdom's [[national academy]] for the humanities and social sciences.<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 | accessdate=18 July 2014}}</ref> 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.<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 | accessdate= 23 January 2016}}</ref>
+</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 &#124; 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>
-==Publications==
+==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}}
-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''.
+* {{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}}
-* {{cite book|last=Flood|first=Gavin |title=The Truth Within: A History of Inwardness in Christianity, Hinduism, and Buddhism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uW5BAQAAQBAJ|year=2013|publisher=OUP |location=Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-968456-4|display-authors=0}}
+* {{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}}
-* {{cite book|last=Flood|first=Gavin |title=The Bhagavad Gita: A New Translation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PDYEAwAAQBAJ|year=2013|publisher=W. W. Norton & Company|isbn=978-0-393-34513-1|display-authors=0}}
+* {{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 |title=The Importance of Religion: Meaning and Action in Our Strange World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pwrVW--ZfioC|year=2012|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-1-4051-8972-9|display-authors=0}}
+* {{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|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GKBV7QZ7BBQC|year=2006|publisher=I.B.Tauris|isbn=978-1-84511-012-3|display-authors=0}}
+* {{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= G.D.|display-authors=0| year = 2004 | title = The Ascetic Self: Subjectivity, Memory and Tradition | publisher = Cambridge University Press | isbn =978-0-521-60401-7|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fapXqp-JSL0C}}
+* {{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=Beyond Phenomenology: Rethinking the Study of Religion|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xEVqHPcxjtsC|year=1999|publisher=A&C Black|isbn=978-0-304-70570-2|display-authors=0}}
+* {{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= G.D.|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 |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}}
-* {{cite book|editor=Gavin Flood|title=The Blackwell Companion to Hinduism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SKBxa-MNqA8C|year=2008|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-0-470-99868-7|display-editors=0}} (Editor)
-* {{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&pg=PA66|year=1994|publisher=A&C Black|isbn=978-0-567-31072-9|chapter=Hinduism|display-authors=0|display-editors=0}}
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Modern yoga	Joseph Alter (Yoga in Modern India) Elliott Goldberg (The Path of Modern Yoga) Andrea Jain (Selling Yoga) Elizabeth De Michelis (A History of Modern Yoga) Suzanne Newcombe Yoga in Britain Mark Singleton Gurus of Modern Yoga Yoga Body Norman Sjoman (Yoga Tradition of the Mysore Palace) Sarah Strauss (Positioning Yoga) Theo Wildcroft (Post-lineage Yoga)
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