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 FloodFBA (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]
^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.
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Brockington, John (1998). "Review of An Introduction to Hinduism". Indo-Iranian Journal. 41. Springer: 78–82. doi:10.1023/A:1003055919458. S2CID 189767501.
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"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.
Gavin Dennis Flood FBA (born 1954) is a British scholar of comparative religion specialising in Shaivism and phenomenology, but with research interests...
seal has been interpreted by these scholars as a prototype of Shiva. GavinFlood characterizes these views as "speculative", saying that it is not clear...
of what is already acquired, and the increase of what is protected. GavinFlood explains artha as "worldly success" without violating dharma (moral responsibility)...
horns. Scholars such as GavinFlood, John Keay and Doris Meth Srinivasan have expressed doubts about this suggestion. GavinFlood states that it is not...
conceptualize Brahman as the Cosmic Principles underlying all that exists. GavinFlood states that the Vedic era witnessed a process of abstraction, where the...
ISBN 978-1-59030-893-6. Flood, Gavin D. (1996). An Introduction to Hinduism. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-43878-0. Flood, Gavin (2006). The Tantric...
Journal of Comparative Law, Vol. 23, No. 3 (Summer, 1975), pp. 490–512. GavinFlood (1994), Hinduism, in Jean Holm, John Bowker (Editors) – Rites of Passages...
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enjoyment of life, affection, or love, with or without sexual connotations. GavinFlood explains kāma as "love" without violating dharma (moral responsibility)...
"Vedas and Upaniṣads", in The Blackwell Companion to Hinduism (Editor: GavinFlood), Blackwell, ISBN 0-631215352, page 68 Michael Witzel. "Early Sanskritization...
English Dictionary with Etymology, Oxford University Press, page 1201 Flood, Gavin. An introduction to Hinduism. (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge...
(life energy) along with nadi (energy carrying arteries). According to GavinFlood, the ancient texts do not present chakra and kundalini-style yoga theories...
descriptions of kama, for example in the law codes of smriti by Manu. GavinFlood describes kama as experiencing the positive emotional state of love whilst...
State University of New York Press. p. 148. ISBN 978-1-4384-0513-1. Flood, Gavin D. (1996), An Introduction to Hinduism, Cambridge University Press Gananath...
pre-Vedic period and was refined during the Vedic period. According to Gavin D. Flood, the Upanishads differ fundamentally from the Vedic ritual tradition...
Gavin R. Ortlund (born 1983) is a writer, theologian, and Christian apologist. Ortlund is the author of eight books and multiple academic articles. He...
ISBN 978-1-4020-2320-0 Flood, Gavin (1996), An Introduction to Hinduism, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-43878-0 Flood, Gavin, ed. (2003), The Blackwell...
religion and rooted itself in devotion as the only path for salvation. GavinFlood mentions five most important contemporary Vaishnava orders. Nimbarka...
Francis Clooney (2005), in The Blackwell Companion to Hinduism (Ed: GavinFlood), Wiley-Blackwell, ISBN 0631215352, pages 454-455; John Bowker (1975)...
28–45. ISBN 978-81-7041-859-7. Pechilis Prentiss (2014), pp. 17–18. Flood, Gavin (1996). An Introduction to Hinduism. Cambridge University Press. p. 131...
"Vedas and Upaniṣads", in The Blackwell Companion to Hinduism (Editor: GavinFlood), Blackwell, ISBN 0-631215352, pages 68-70 Bruno Nettl, Ruth M. Stone...
pp. 59–65 Cybelle T. Shattuck 1999, pp. 51, 124. Jessica Frazier & GavinFlood 2011, p. 255. Monier Monier Williams (2008 updated, Harvard University)...
(1989), ISBN 0-8245-0755-X, Crossroads Publishing New York, pp. 64–85 GavinFlood, Brill's Encyclopedia of Hinduism, Editor: Knut Jacobsen (2010), Volume...
Hinduism, though in diminished capacity (p. 4).; (b) Flood, Gavin (2020), "Introduction", in GavinFlood (ed.), The Oxford History of Hinduism: Hindu Practice:...
Volume 1. The Rosen Publishing Group. p. 349. ISBN 978-0-8239-3179-8. GavinFlood (2008). The Blackwell Companion to Hinduism. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 212–213...
(2003), The Dharmaśāstas, in The Blackwell Companion to Hinduism (Editor: GavinFlood), Blackwell Publishing Oxford, ISBN 0-631-21535-2, page 102-104 Stella...
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