The Blackwell Companion to Hinduism: An ideal resource for courses on Hinduism or world religions, this accessible volume spans the entire field of Hindu studies. It provides a forum for the best scholars in the world to make their views and research available to a wider audience.
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 	<li>Comprehensively covers the textual traditions of Hinduism</li>
 	<li>Features four coherent sections covering theoretical issues, textual traditions, science and philosophy, and Hindu society and politics</li>
 	<li>Reflects the trend away from essentialist understandings of Hinduism towards tradition and regional-specific studies</li>
 	<li>Includes material on Hindu folk religions and stresses the importance of region in analyzing Hinduism</li>
 	<li>Ideal for use on university courses.</li>
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Gavin Dennis Flood FBA (born 1954) is a British scholar of comparative religion specializing 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 Center for Hindu Studies which is a Recognised Independent Center 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, the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences. 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 Champion Hall, Oxford.

Flood's books include:

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"Hinduism". Rites of Passage.

An Introduction to Hinduism. Cambridge University Press.

The Blackwell Companion to Hinduism. John Wiley & Sons.

Beyond Phenomenology: Rethinking the Study of Religion.

The Ascetic Self: Subjectivity, Memory and Tradition. Cambridge University Press.

The Tantric Body: The Secret Tradition of Hindu Religion. I.B.Tauris.

The Importance of Religion: Meaning and Action in Our Strange World. John Wiley & Sons.

The Truth Within: A History of Inwardness in Christianity, Hinduism, and Buddhism.

The Bhagavad Gita: A New Translation. W. W. Norton & Company. 2013.

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