Professor Gavin Flood FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2014
- Subjects
- Religion
Summary
Gavin Flood's research interests are in medieval Hindu texts (especially from the traditions of Shiva), comparative religion and phenomenology. Two recent books are The Importance of Religion: Meaning and Action in Our Strange World (Oxford: Blackwell, 2013) and The Truth Within: A History of Inwardness in Christianity, Hinduism and Buddhism (Oxford University Press, 2014). Developing from the comparative interests of these books, he is currently working on a project on religion and the philosophy of life as well as developing closer textual work on a Sanskrit text called the Netra Tantra. He is general series editor of the Oxford History of Hinduism.
Current post
Yale-NUS College, Singapore Yap Kim Hao Professor of Comparative Religious Studies
2016 -
University of Oxford Professor of Hindu Studies and Comparative Religion
2008 -
Campion Hall, University of Oxford Senior Research Fellow
2008 -
Past appointments
Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies Director
2005 - 2015
Publications
The Truth Within: A History of Inwardness in Christianity, Buddhism, and Hinduism
Gavin Flood - Published in 2014 by Oxford University Press
The Importance of Religion: Meaning and Action in Our Strange World
Gavin Flood - Published in 2012 by Wiley-Blackwell
The Ascetic Self: Subjectivity, Memory, and Tradition
Gavin Flood - Published in 2004 by Cambridge University Press
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