Gavin Flood is Professor of Hindu Studies and Comparative Religion at Oxford University, UK. He is also the Piramal Dean of the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, and a Senior Research Fellow in Campion Hall, Oxford University, UK.

• The idea of religion; reductionism and research strategies; phenomenology; narrative theory; critical theory; dialogism; reflexivity; narrative identity; epilogue - towards a critical religious studies.

"Those who have appreciated Gavin Flood's work...will not be surprised to learn that this is a thorough and constructive analysis of key ideas within contemporary academic religious studies...two of the book's important contributions are that it finally nails down the myth of phenomenological activity and neutrality, and, that it indicates ways in which particular positions, including faith positions, might legitimately operate within religious studies...an important and stimulating book." --Themelios 26.2 (Spring 2001)

Gavin Flood is Professor of Hindu Studies and Comparative Religion at Oxford University, UK. He is also the Piramal Dean of the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, and a Senior Research Fellow in Campion Hall, Oxford University, UK.

• The idea of religion; reductionism and research strategies; phenomenology; narrative theory; critical theory; dialogism; reflexivity; narrative identity; epilogue - towards a critical religious studies.

"Those who have appreciated Gavin Flood's work...will not be surprised to learn that this is a thorough and constructive analysis of key ideas within contemporary academic religious studies...two of the book's important contributions are that it finally nails down the myth of phenomenological activity and neutrality, and, that it indicates ways in which particular positions, including faith positions, might legitimately operate within religious studies...an important and stimulating book." --Themelios 26.2 (Spring 2001)

Gavin Flood is Professor of Hindu Studies and Comparative Religion at Oxford University, UK. He is also the Piramal Dean of the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, and a Senior Research Fellow in Campion Hall, Oxford University, UK.

• The idea of religion; reductionism and research strategies; phenomenology; narrative theory; critical theory; dialogism; reflexivity; narrative identity; epilogue - towards a critical religious studies.

"Those who have appreciated Gavin Flood's work...will not be surprised to learn that this is a thorough and constructive analysis of key ideas within contemporary academic religious studies...two of the book's important contributions are that it finally nails down the myth of phenomenological activity and neutrality, and, that it indicates ways in which particular positions, including faith positions, might legitimately operate within religious studies...an important and stimulating book." --Themelios 26.2 (Spring 2001)