- Gavin Flood
Gavin Flood a prominent scholar of Hinduism with specialization in
Shaivism ,phenomenology ,comparative religion and theories of the text.cite journal
author = Flood, G.
year = 2003
title = The Sacred and the Profane: Contemporary Demands On Hermeneutics
journal = Literature and Theology
volume = 17
issue = 4
pages = 478-479
url = http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/oup/litthe/2003/00000017/00000004/art00478
accessdate = 2008-05-15] From October 2005 he is an Academic Director ofOCHS [http://www.ocvhs.com/friends/documents/OCHS%20case%20for%20support.pdf] which is a Recognised Independent Centre of the University of Oxford. [cite web
url=http://resources.theology.ox.ac.uk/staff.phtml?lecturer_code=gflood
title=University of Oxford, Faculty of Theology
publisher=resources.theology.ox.ac.uk
accessdate=2008-05-15
last=
first=(A Recognised Independent Centre is an institution that is not part of the University, but works with the University in research and teaching.)] and is currently the senior lecturer in Religious Studies at theUniversity of Stirling , Scotland. [cite web
url=http://www.blackwell-compass.com/subject/religion/profile?person=FloodGavin
title=Gavin Flood : Religion Compass
publisher=www.blackwell-compass.com
accessdate=2008-05-15
last=
first=]With research interests that span South Asian traditions, [cite web
url=http://www.springerlink.com/content/pu1k418355q60617/
title=SpringerLink - Journal Article
publisher=www.springerlink.com
accessdate=2008-05-15
last=
first=] Prof. Flood 's history of research and publication is notable. His publications include " [http://assets.cambridge.org/97805214/33044/frontmatter/9780521433044_frontmatter.pdf 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".Prof.Flood remarked: "I have always had a general interest in Hinduism,even as a boy when I remember reading an article in the Encyclopedia Britannica that was utterly compelling and utterly incomprehensible for me at the time!" Hindu studies, he says, should be devoted to "the deepening of knowledge about Hindu traditions, the development of reflection on the arts and literature (particularly in the vernacular) of Indian culture, and the development of Hindu theological reasoning from within those traditions,in ways that meet modern criteria of rigour.cite journal
author = Flood, G.
year = 1998
title = 10. Rites of passage
journal = Themes and Issues in Hinduism
url = http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&id=_bjmiUSDRkAC&oi=fnd&pg=PA254&dq=Gavin+Flood+biography&ots=ALUt0E90Yj&sig=OTRUdcQkRgsMxS6IgaP_693oec8
accessdate = 2008-05-15] We might add that theOxford Centre for Hindu Studies has a further pedagogical responsibility to disseminate information and knowledge about Hindu traditions to both 'insiders' and 'outsiders'." [cite web
url=http://www.ochs.org.uk/news/10082005.html
title=The Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies
publisher=www.ochs.org.uk
accessdate=2008-05-15
last=
first=] cite journal
author = Flood, G.
year = 1999
title = Hinduism Reconsidered
journal = Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
volume = 62
issue = 2
pages = 373-374
url = http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0041-977X(1999)62%3A2%3C373%3AHR%3E2.0.CO%3B2-J
accessdate = 2008-05-15]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)cite book
author = Flood, G.D.
year = 2004
title = The Ascetic Self: Subjectivity, Memory and Tradition
publisher = Cambridge University Press
isbn = ]* "Beyond Phenomenology: Rethinking the Study of religion." (Cassell 1999)
* "Introduction to Hinduism" (Cambridge University Press 1996)cite book
author = Flood, G.D.
year = 1996
title = An Introduction to Hinduism
publisher = Cambridge University Press
isbn = ]* Editor of "The Blacwell Companion to Hinduism" (Blackwell 2003).cite book
author = Fenn, R.K.
year = 2001
title = The Blackwell Companion to Sociology of Religion
publisher = Blackwell Publishers
isbn = ]
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