Gavin Flood

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Gavin Flood is affiliated with the following schools: University of Oxford, Lancaster University, University of Stirling

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#36

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#117

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Comparative Religion

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PhD Comparative Religion Lancaster University
Masters Religious Studies Lancaster University
Bachelors Theology Lancaster University

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According to Wikipedia, Gavin Dennis Flood is a British scholar of comparative religion specialising in Shaivism and phenomenology, but with research interests that span South Asian traditions. 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. 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. In 2016, Flood became the inaugural Yap Kim Hao Professor of Comparative Religious Studies at Yale-NUS College in Singapore. He is a senior research fellow at Campion Hall, University of Oxford.

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Gavin Flood's Published Works

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Published Works

An Introduction to Hinduism (1996) (394)
Beyond Phenomenology: Rethinking the Study of Religion (1999) (200)
The Blackwell Companion To Hinduism (2008) (100)
The Tantric Body: The Secret Tradition of Hindu Religion (2005) (65)
The Ascetic Self: Subjectivity, Memory and Tradition (2004) (65)
Reflections on Tradition and Inquiry in the Study of Religions (2006) (27)
The Importance of Religion: Meaning and Action in our Strange World (2011) (20)
The Tantric body (2006) (18)
Conceptions of the Afterlife in Early Civilizations: Universalism, Constructivism and Near-Death Experience (2009) (18)
The Truth Within: A History of Inwardness in Christianity, Hinduism, and Buddhism (2013) (16)
The Continuum companion to Hindu studies (2011) (14)
Religion and the Specter of the West: Sikhism, India, Postcoloniality, and the Politics of Translation (2011) (14)
Body and cosmology in Kashmir Śaivism (1993) (12)
Introduction: Establishing the Boundaries (2007) (10)
Mimesis, narrative and subjectivity in the work of Girard and Ricoeur (2000) (8)
The Bhagavad Gita : a new translation (2012) (8)
An Enquiry into the Nature of Liberation: Bhaṭṭa Rāmakaṇṭha’s Paramokṣanirāsakārikāvṛtti, a commentary on Sadyojotiḥ’s refutation of twenty conceptions of the liberated state (mokṣa) . By Alex Watson, Dominic Goodall, and S.L.P. Sarma. (2016) (7)
The Śaiva Traditions (2007) (6)
The Ascetic Self: Contents (2004) (6)
The Purification of the Body in Tantric Ritual Representation (2002) (5)
Text and Tradition (2003) (5)
Sacrifice as Refusal (2013) (5)
The Bloomsbury Companion to Hindu Studies (2014) (5)
Mapping Invisible Worlds (1994) (5)
Religion and the Philosophy of Life (2019) (4)
The political sacred and the holiness of life itself (2017) (3)
Hinduism Reader (2008) (3)
Body, Breath and Representation in Śaiva Tantrism (2009) (2)
The Bhagavad Gita : a new translation, contexts, criticism (2015) (2)
Fields of Faith: The study of religion as corrective reading (2005) (2)
Implicit Anthropologies in Pre-philosophical Śaivism with Particular Reference to the Netra-tantra (2020) (2)
ASCETICISM AND THE HOPEFUL SELF: Subjectivity, Reductionism, and Modernity (2008) (2)
Techniques of body and desire in Kashmir Śaivism (1992) (2)
Shared Realities and Symbolic Forms in Kashmir Saivism (1989) (2)
The Sacred and the Profane: Contemporary Demands On Hermeneutics (2003) (2)
Self and text : Towards a comparative theology of the self (2006) (2)
The Ascetic Self: Setting the parameters (2004) (1)
Duty, Language and Exegesis in Prābhākara Mīmāṃsā: Including an Edition and Translation of Rāmānujācārya’s Tantrarahasya, Śāstraprameyapariccheda. By Elisa Freschi. (2015) (1)
The Concept of Mind in Hindu Tantrism (2021) (1)
Politics, Experience, and the Languages of Holiness (2020) (1)
29. The Purification of the Body (2000) (1)
Miracles in Hinduism (2011) (1)
Response to William Schweiker (2006) (1)
THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF SCRIPTURE: PATTERNS OF RECEPTION AND DISCOVERY BEHIND SCRIPTURAL REASONING (2006) (1)
Hindus: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices . By Julius Lipner. London and New York: Routledge, 1998. xiii, 375 pp. $27.95 (paper). (2002) (1)
Philosophies of Life (2019) (1)
The Ascetic Self: The asceticism of the middle way (2004) (0)
The Philosophy of Life as the Field of Immanence (2019) (0)
Epilogue (2019) (0)
Tantra, Philosophical Aspects of (2021) (0)
The Emergence of Religion (2019) (0)
The Phenomenology of Life (2019) (0)
Conflict Resolution in Paul Claudel (2005) (0)
Epilogue: Modernity and the Life of Holiness (2019) (0)
Models of the Human in Tantric Hinduism (2019) (0)
The body of God in word, world and sacrament: (2014) (0)
Bare Life and the Resurrection of the Body (2019) (0)
Book reviews (2006) (0)
Bhatta Rāmakantha's commentary on the Kiranatantra , vol. 1: chapters 1–6, critical edition and translation. By Dominic Goodall. pp. cxxiv, 487. Pondichéry, Institut Français de Pondichéry École Française D'Extreme-Orient, 1998. (2000) (0)
Introduction: The Mountains of the Mind (2013) (0)
Book reviews (2000) (0)
The Ascetic Self: The asceticism of work: Simone Weil (2004) (0)
Reply to Nancy Levene (2006) (0)
Sacrifice (2019) (0)
The Phenomenology of Inwardness (2013) (0)
Hinduism and Meditation (2019) (0)
Response to Schweiker (2006) (0)
Religion and the Bio-Sociology of Transformation (2019) (0)
Maṇḍana Miśra (2021) (0)
The Ascetic Self: Bibliography (2004) (0)
Free Will, Agency, and Selfhood in Indian Philosophy . Edited by Matthew R. Dasti and Edwin F. Bryant. (2016) (0)
The Ascetic Self: The ascetic self and modernity (2004) (0)
Introduction (2020) (0)
The asceticism of the desert (2004) (0)
Inwardness and Visual Contemplation in Hinduism (2013) (0)
Chakrabarti, Kisor Kumar, Classical Indian Philosophy of Mind. The Nyāaya Dualist Tradition (2002) (0)
Inwardness Without Self (2013) (0)
Dwelling on the Borders: Self. Text and World (2008) (0)
The Ascetic Self: The ritual formation of the ascetic self (2004) (0)
A Storm of Songs: India and the Idea of the Bhakti Movement . By John Stratton Hawley. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2015. xiv, 438 pp. ISBN 9780674187467 (cloth). (2016) (0)
The Ascetic Self: The asceticism of action: tantra (2004) (0)
The Ascetic Self: The asceticism of love and wisdom (2004) (0)
The Roman festival of the Lupercalia : history, myth, ritual and its Indo-European heritage (2015) (0)
Transforming Life (2019) (0)
Becoming Invisible and the Formal Indication of the Religious Life (2020) (0)
Dravid, Raja Ram, The Problem of Universals in Indian Philosophy (2002) (0)
Bühnemann, Gudrun, The Iconography of Hindu Tantric Deities (2002) (0)
Alston, A.J., The Śankara Source Book (2008) (0)
Eastern philosophy and idealism (2021) (0)
Book reviews and notices (1992) (0)
SINGING THE BODY OF GOD (Book) (2002) (0)
Introduction to the Journal of Hindu Studies (2008) (0)
Śiva’s Demon Devotee: Kāraikkāl Ammaiyār. By Elaine Craddock. London: SUNY Press, 2010. Xii + 193 p. ISBN-10: 1438430884 (hb.). (2012) (0)
Tantric Studies: Fruits of a Franco-German Project on Early Tantra (2018) (0)
CATHERINE A. ROBINSON: Tradition and liberation: the Hindu tradition in the Indian women's movement. (Curzon Studies in Asian Religions.) x, 230 pp. Richmond: Curzon Press, 1999. £40. (2002) (0)
The Historical Self and Comparative Religion (2013) (0)
IF ONLY THEY COULD THINK (1996) (0)
Book Reviews : Encyclopaedia of Hinduism (1999) (0)
Revelation in Hindu Religion (2021) (0)
Reply to Levene (2006) (0)
Books Received (1998) (0)
The Sacrificial Imaginary (2019) (0)
Introduction (2019) (0)
South Asia (1999) (0)
Enchantment as Cosmological Meaning (2019) (0)
The Teachings of the Odd-Eyed One: A Study and Translation of the Vīrūpakṣapañcāśikā with the Commentary of Vidyācakravartin (review) (2011) (0)
Reflections on the Academic Study of Religions (2013) (0)
Inwardness as Mystical Ascent (2013) (0)
The Phenomenology of Religion as Philosophical Anthropology (2023) (0)
CAN WE ATTAIN WISDOM? A NON‐DUALIST PROBLEM IN ŚAIVA PHILOSOPHY (2006) (0)
A Hindu Philosophy of Inwardness (2013) (0)
A Theory of Religious Inwardness (2013) (0)
Davis, Richard H., Worshipping Śiva in Medieval India. Ritual in an Oscillating Universe. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass 2000, pp. xvi, 200. ISBN 81-208-1747-8. Rs 295, -. (2005) (0)
Prayer and Vision in the Middle Ages (2013) (0)
The Ascetic Self: The asceticism of action: the Bhagavad-gītā and Yoga-sūtras (2004) (0)
Response to editorial (2000) (0)
Book reviews and notices (1989) (0)
The Theory and Philosophy of Life (2019) (0)
Practice in the Tantric Religion of Śiva (2020) (0)
Earth under Heaven (2019) (0)
Arius: Heresy and Tradition (2003) (0)

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