Gavin D Flood
Biographic Data
| ID | 1637199 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gavin D Flood |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gavin D |
| FAMILY NAME | Flood |
| SIGNATURE | FLOOD G D |
| AFFILIATIONS | 1Bath College of Higher Education Bath BA 2 9BN |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Phenomenology of Scripture: Patterns of Reception and Discovery Behind Scriptural Reasoning
While there are fundamental problems concerning the scientific or objective aspirations of a descriptive phenomenology of religion, a second level or hermeneutical phenomenology raises theologically and philosophically interesting questions about the nature of scripture across traditions and contributes to a semiotically informed understanding that takes seriously both external, text‐historical scholarship and internal theological concerns. I wis…
The Ascetic Self: Subjectivity, Memory and Tradition
Gavin Flood's *The Ascetic Self: Subjectivity, Memory, and Tradition* explores the concept of asceticism within Christianity, Buddhism, and Hinduism. He argues that ascetic practices can be understood as the internalization of tradition, shaping the narrative of an individual's life in accordance with established narratives. This performance of tradition involves a tension between the desire to eradicate the will or self and the inherent act of w…
Beyond Phenomenology: Rethinking the Study of Religion
The idea of religion reductionism and research strategies phenomenology narrative theory critical theory dialogism reflexivity narrative identity epilogue - towards a critical religious studies
Techniques of body and desire in Kashmir Śaivism
This paper is concerned with the way in which monistic Śaiva ideas about the body relate to religious practices. For the Śaiva monist, the body is both identical with the pure consciousness of Śiva and is a result of the projection of his consciousness as the hierarchical cosmos. This paper examines how these ideas are reflected in Śaiva religious practices focused on the body, which intend to realize the body as divine. In this connection Śaiva …
Shared Realities and Symbolic Forms in Kashmir Saivism
SHARED REALITIES AND SYMBOLIC FORMS IN KASHMIR SAIVISM GAVIN D. FLOOD Inlroduction The expression 'Kashmir Saivism' has come to refer to the vari- ous traditions of non-dualistic Saivism which developed in Kashmir between the 9th and llth centuries C.E.1 By 'non-dualistic' or 'monistic' I mean the Tantric Saiva traditions which revered a scriptural authority other than the orthodox Vedas, namely the Tantras and Agamas, and which propounded a doct…
The Ascetic Self: Subjectivity, Memory and Tradition
Gavin Flood's *The Ascetic Self: Subjectivity, Memory, and Tradition* explores the concept of asceticism within Christianity, Buddhism, and Hinduism. He argues that ascetic practices can be understood as the internalization of tradition, shaping the narrative of an individual's life in accordance with established narratives. This performance of tradition involves a tension between the desire to eradicate the will or self and the inherent act of w…
Techniques of body and desire in Kashmir Śaivism
This paper is concerned with the way in which monistic Śaiva ideas about the body relate to religious practices. For the Śaiva monist, the body is both identical with the pure consciousness of Śiva and is a result of the projection of his consciousness as the hierarchical cosmos. This paper examines how these ideas are reflected in Śaiva religious practices focused on the body, which intend to realize the body as divine. In this connection Śaiva …
Shared Realities and Symbolic Forms in Kashmir Saivism
SHARED REALITIES AND SYMBOLIC FORMS IN KASHMIR SAIVISM GAVIN D. FLOOD Inlroduction The expression 'Kashmir Saivism' has come to refer to the vari- ous traditions of non-dualistic Saivism which developed in Kashmir between the 9th and llth centuries C.E.1 By 'non-dualistic' or 'monistic' I mean the Tantric Saiva traditions which revered a scriptural authority other than the orthodox Vedas, namely the Tantras and Agamas, and which propounded a doct…
Shared Realities and Symbolic Forms in Kashmir Saivism
SHARED REALITIES AND SYMBOLIC FORMS IN KASHMIR SAIVISM GAVIN D. FLOOD Inlroduction The expression 'Kashmir Saivism' has come to refer to the vari- ous traditions of non-dualistic Saivism which developed in Kashmir between the 9th and llth centuries C.E.1 By 'non-dualistic' or 'monistic' I mean the Tantric Saiva traditions which revered a scriptural authority other than the orthodox Vedas, namely the Tantras and Agamas, and which propounded a doct…
Techniques of body and desire in Kashmir Śaivism
This paper is concerned with the way in which monistic Śaiva ideas about the body relate to religious practices. For the Śaiva monist, the body is both identical with the pure consciousness of Śiva and is a result of the projection of his consciousness as the hierarchical cosmos. This paper examines how these ideas are reflected in Śaiva religious practices focused on the body, which intend to realize the body as divine. In this connection Śaiva …
Beyond Phenomenology: Rethinking the Study of Religion
The idea of religion reductionism and research strategies phenomenology narrative theory critical theory dialogism reflexivity narrative identity epilogue - towards a critical religious studies
The Ascetic Self: Subjectivity, Memory and Tradition
Gavin Flood's *The Ascetic Self: Subjectivity, Memory, and Tradition* explores the concept of asceticism within Christianity, Buddhism, and Hinduism. He argues that ascetic practices can be understood as the internalization of tradition, shaping the narrative of an individual's life in accordance with established narratives. This performance of tradition involves a tension between the desire to eradicate the will or self and the inherent act of w…
The Phenomenology of Scripture: Patterns of Reception and Discovery Behind Scriptural Reasoning
While there are fundamental problems concerning the scientific or objective aspirations of a descriptive phenomenology of religion, a second level or hermeneutical phenomenology raises theologically and philosophically interesting questions about the nature of scripture across traditions and contributes to a semiotically informed understanding that takes seriously both external, text‐historical scholarship and internal theological concerns. I wis…
Philosophy (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Theology (3 works) · Hinduism (2 works) · History (2 works) · Indian and Buddhist Studies (2 works) · Indian History and Philosophy (2 works) · Monism (2 works) · Psychoanalysis (2 works) · Psychology (2 works)