Gavin Dennis Flood (born 1954) is a British scholar ofcomparative religion specialising inShaivism andphenomenology,^[1] but with research interests that span South Asian traditions.^[2]From October 2005 through December 2015, he served in theFaculty of Theology University of Oxford and as the Academic Director of theOxford 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 aFellow of the British Academy.^[4] In 2016, Flood became the inaugural Yap Kim Hao Professor of Comparative Religious Studies atYale-NUS College in Singapore.^[5] He is a senior research fellow atCampion Hall, University of Oxford.^[6]

• "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.

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