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Gavin Flood is a scholar of comparative religion with specialization in Shaivism and phenomenology with research interests that span South Asian traditions.

Since October 2005 he has been the Academic Director of the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies [1] 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.

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.

Publications

• The Tantric Body: The Secret Tradition of Hindu Religion. London: I.B. Tauris, 2006
• The Ascetic Self: Subjectivity, Memory and Tradition. (Cambridge University Press 2006)
• Beyond Phenomenology: Rethinking the Study of religion. (Cassell 1999)
• Introduction to Hinduism (Cambridge University Press 1996)
• Editor of The Blackwell Companion to Hinduism (Blackwell 2003).
• Rites of Passage (1994)

References and notes

External links

• "University of Oxford, Faculty of Theology". resources.theology.ox.ac.uk. http://resources.theology.ox.ac.uk/staff.phtml?lecturer_code=gflood. Retrieved 2008-05-15. 

See also

• Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies
• Krishnology