Gavin Flood

Gavin Flood FBA is Senior Research Fellow in Hindu Studies and Comparative Religion, Campion Hall, Oxford University, the Piramal Dean of Academic Affairs at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, and Professor emeritus, Theology and Religion Faculty, Oxford University. His research interests are in Hindu text and tradition (particularly the religion of Shiva in the medieval period), Phenomenology, and Comparative Religion. Among his books are Religion and the Philosophy of Life (Oxford University Press, 2019) and The Truth Within: A History of Inwardness in Christianity, Hinduism and Buddhism (Oxford University Press, 2014).