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1.         Higher Education

 

1979-1982       BA (Hons) 2.i. Theology. London Bible College (CNAA)

 

1984-1991       PhD: The True Israel: uses of the names Jew, Hebrew and Israel in ancient Jewish Literature. University of Newcastle upon Tyne

 

2.         APPOINTMENTS AND EXPERIENCE

 

2007-present            Reader in Religious Studies, Open University

 

2003-2007                Lecturer in Religious Studies, Open University

 

1996-2003                Reader/Principal Lecturer in Religious Studies, King Alfred’s College, Winchester

 

1995                         Lecturer in Judaism, Dept. of Religious Studies, University of Newcastle upon Tyne. (part-time)

Also Continuing Education tutor, University of Newcastle upon Tyne

 

1995 (Mar-May)        Hartley Institute Visiting Fellowship, Southampton University. “Common Ground between Jews and Christians: a test case in Inter-Faith Dialogue”. (fixed term)

 

1994-1995                Lecturer in Bible and Judaism, Department of Religious Studies, University of Newcastle upon Tyne. (part-time)

Also Continuing Education tutor, University of Newcastle upon Tyne

 

1993-1994                Co-organiser, international conference on the Academic Study of Modern Paganism and Shamanism, Department of Religious Studies, University of Newcastle upon Tyne. (part-time)

 

1993                         Administrator of the Joint International Conference of the British Association for the Study of Religions and the Department of Religious Studies, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, September 1993. (part-time)

 

1990-1991                Trainee Ethnographer, Hancock Museum, Newcastle upon Tyne. Special concerns with North American, Australian and Pacific collections

 

3.         CONTRIBUTIONS TO OPEN UNIVERSITY TEACHING AND STUDENT SUPPORT

 

(a)        Organisational responsibilities

 

A880 MA Religious Studies, Year 1 (90 points)

2007-present            Production course team chair

 

AD317 Religion Today: Tradition, Modernity and Change (60 points)

2006- 2007           Presentation course team chair

2006- 2007            Examination and award board chair

 

A217 Introducing Religions (60 points)

2006-present            Member of Presentation course team

2004 to 2005            Member of Production course team and specifically responsible for Judaism materials

 

AA100 Introduction to the Arts (60 points)

2005-present            Member of Production course team and specifically responsible for Unit 22 “Sacred Space and Landscape”

 

A440 Dissertation in the Arts

2006                         Member of Production course team and specifically responsible for co-ordination of Religious Studies department’s contribution (A448) (Production postponed)

 

A448 The Undergraduate Dissertation in Religious Studies (30 points)

2006                         Co-ordinator of Religious Studies Units. (Production postponed)

 

 

(b)       Contributions to teaching materials and methods

 

A217 Introducing Religions (60 points)

2004 to 2005            Author of Unit 2 (Judaism) and Judaism material for DVD and Audio CD (including interviews). (1.5 units)

 

AA307 Religions in Conflict and Co-operation (60 points)

2005                         Two interviews on Audio CD

 

AA100 Introduction to the Arts (60 points)

2005-present            Co-author of Unit 22 “Sacred Space and Landscape”, for Block 4 “Time, Space and Leisure”

 

 (c)       Contributions to staff and student support and associated activities

 

2005-present            Departmental Research Students Co-ordinator

 

A217 Introducing Religions (60 points)

2006-present            Monitoring and tutor briefing

 

AD317 Religion Today: Tradition, Modernity and Change (60 points)

2006-present            Monitoring

 

(d)       Contributions to teaching outside the Open University

 

1996-2003                King Alfred’s (College) Winchester

Team member developing new undergraduate course in Theology and Religious Studies, specifically responsible for level three modules including Final Year Dissertation. Within the course, devised four new modules and developed four others in presentation (plus a backup bank of additional modules).

Tutor in MA in Contemporary Popular Knowledges (2000-2003)

Tutor in MA Religious Studies (Spirituality) (1996-1999)

 

1994-1995                University of Newcastle upon Tyne: Centre for Continuing Education

Devised modules on Paganism; Ancient Judaism and Modern Judaism

 

1991-1995                University of Newcastle upon Tyne

Developed modules in Religious Studies: Judaism, New Religious Movements

 

4.         CONTRIBUTIONS TO ADMINISTRATION AND MANAGEMENT

 

            Open University

2007-present            Member of University Student Research Project Panel

2006-present            Member of Faculty Promotions Advisory Group’s Scrutiny Group

2006-present            Member of Faculty Research Sub-Committee

2006                         Member of Faculty Level 1 Policy Group

2005-present            Member of Faculty Promotions Advisory Group

 

Contributions at other institutions

2001-2003                King Alfred’s Winchester

Programme Director: MA Religion (Rhetoric and Rituals of Death) by Distance Learning

2000-2003                King Alfred’s Winchester:

Programme Director: MA in Religion: The Rhetoric and Rituals of Death;

1999-2003                Member of College’s Research Committee and the Academic Regulations Committeee; Member of School of Cultural Studies’ Quality Committee and Learning and Teaching Committee.

 

 

5.         RESEARCH AND SCHOLARSHIP

Research interests
Current research interests centre on indigenous religions, including in diaspora and in engagement with “Nature Religions” (e.g. Paganisms), monotheisms and modernity.
 
Research funding
1999 - 2000:     ‘Indigenous Diasporas’. British Academy. £4465. Collaboration with Dr Charles Thompson, University of North Carolina. 
2004    Overseas conference grant (for IAHR congress in Tokyo). British Academy. £700.
2007    Overseas conference grant (for conference in Havana). British Academy. £600

 

6.         POSTGRADUATE STUDENT SUPERVISION

 

Dates of Supervision

Date of Award

Name of Student

Thesis Title

Degree Awarded

1998-2001

2001

Andy Letcher

Bardism among contemporary Pagans.

PhD

King Alfred’s College, Winchester

2001-2004

2005

Brian Walker

Hope within an Abrahamic Dialogue: An investigation into the content of hope emergent from dialogue between contemporary Judaic, Christian and Muslim advocates. AHRB funded.

PhD

University College, Winchester

2001-2005

2005

Christina Welch

The Role of Visual Representation in the Construction of North American Indian and Western Alternative Spiritual Identities. AHRB funded

PhD

University College, Winchester

1999-2006

2006

Olu Taiwo

Interfacing with our own interface – the relationship between digital (clock) and metabolic (organic) temporal space through music and movement in Enlightenment and Indigenous (Yoruba) Cultures

PhD

University of Winchester

2002-2006

2006

Jenny Gaffin

The Politics of Performance of Queer Inter-Religious Dialogue.

PhD

University of Winchester

2003-present

 

Adrian Harris

The Wisdom of the Body: Embodied knowledge in the practice of Nature Religions

 

 

2003-present

 

Ian Jamieson

Ethical perspectives among contemporary Pagans.

 

 

2004-present

 

Helen Purcell

Is Western society really disenchanted? A critical examination of the works of Alan Garner and his reception among contemporary Pagans.

 

 

2004-present   Amy Whitehead Idolatry:  Testing the limits of materiality    
2006-present   Mika Lassander A Community of Individuals: Group Affiliation and Individualism in Contemporary Paganism in Britain, Finland and Ireland    
2006-present   Francesca Howell Environmental Philosophy though an Italian Lens: the influence of traditional Italian witchcraft on ecological perspectives in Italy    
2007-present   Maria Nita Eco-Theism Old and New: Faith Groups at the Heart of the Climate Change Campaign    

   

 

7.         EXTERNAL ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

 

Offices in learned societies and professional bodies

 

2007-present            Trustee of the British Sociological Association

2006-present            Advisor to the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics

2004-present            Member of Research Committee of the Religious Experience Research Centre of the Alister Hardy Trust

2003-present            Honorary Secretary of the British Association for the Study of Religions

2003-present            Member of International committee of the International Association for the History of Religions

 

Memberships in learned societies

 

1996-present            Member of the Society for the Study of Native American Religious Traditions

1993-present            Member of the British Association for the Study of Religions

 

 

External Examining

 

2007-2011                Religion in Context programme, Middlesex University

2002-2010                Theology and Religious Studies programme, University of Greenwich.

2002-2006                Religious Studies programme, Wolverhampton University

 

Contributions to conferences

 

2007                         Convener of two international panels (“Studying Indigenous Religions and indigeneity” and “Researching Paganisms”) for the Fifth International Meeting on Socio-Religious Studies, Havana, Cuba.

2005                         Co-organiser of international conference on Embodiment and Environment held at Oxford Brookes University

2005                         Organiser of conference on Locating the Ancestors, Belief Beyond Boundaries Research Group, held at the Open University

1999                         Co-organiser of international conference on Taking Religious Convictions Seriously: Religion and Law. held at the University of Central Lancashire

1998                         Co-organiser of international conference on Shamanism in Contemporary Society. held at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne

1997                         Co-organiser of international colloquium on Ambivalent Goddesses. held at King Alfred’s College, Winchester

1997                         Co-organiser of international conference on Re-Enchantment: third international conference on Contemporary Paganism. held at the King Alfred’s College, Winchester.

1996                         Co-organiser of “Who wants to live forever?” — a series of three one-day conferences on death, dying and bereavement, held at King Alfred’s College, Winchester

1995                         Co-Organiser of international conference on Possession and Exorcism. held at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne

1994                         Co-organiser of International Conference on Paganism in Contemporary Britain. held at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne

1993                         Organiser of conference on Encounters of Religions, BASR Annual Conference, held at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne

 

Invited lectures

 

2008                         Paganism: negotiating between esotericism and animism”, Kabbalah and Contemporary Spiritual Revival: Historical, Sociological, and Cultural Perspectives, Ben Gurion University in Beer Sheva, Israel.

2007                         Invited lecture ‘Guesthood as method and interpretation in the study of indigenous religions’ at IAHR special conference, ‘New Challenges in the Academic Study of Religion’, Stockholm

2006                         ‘Other animists, other modernists: contesting personhood in the study of indigenous religions’, keynote presentation at the annual conference of the Australian Association for the Study of Religions, Adelaide, Australia

2006                         ‘The material culture of indigenous religions and the life of “‘object persons”’, Objects, Art & Belief: An Introduction to the material culture of religion. Oxford University.

2005                         Key note address: ‘Between Romanticism and Radicalism: Researching and Teaching Religious Environmentalism’, Religions in Conversation with the Environment Conference, Birmingham, funded by The Higher Education Academy Subject Centres for Philosophical and Religious Studies and Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

2004                         Key note address: ‘Recent and Future developments in the Study of Paganisms’, ASANAS conference, University of Wolverhampton

2003                         Invited respondent to New Religious Movements panel, American Academy of Religion

 

8.         OTHER INFORMATION

 

PhD/MPhil examined

 

2001-present            13 PhDs examined – Universities of Massey (New Zealand), Monash (Australia), Winchester, King’s College London, Bristol, Stirling, Southampton, KwaZulu Natal (South Africa), West of England, Edinburgh, Liverpool Hope.

2005-present            MPhils examined: 2: Newcastle upon Tyne, Greenwich

 

Editorships

 

Vitality of Indigenous Religions. Ashgate. Monograph series. Co-editors: Lawrence Martin, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, USA, and Tabona Shoko, University of Zimbabwe. Series commenced 1999

 

Religion, Culture and Society. Ashgate. Monograph series. Co-editors: Peter Edge, Oxford Brookes University, and Lois Lorentzen, University of San Francisco. Series commenced 1999

 

Member of peer-reviewed journal editorial panel of Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture. London: Equinox. From January 2007

http://www.religionandnature.com

(Previously member of peer-reviewed journal editorial panel of Ecotheology, London: Equinox (now replaced by JSRNC)

 

Member of peer-reviewed journal editorial panel of The Pomegranate: The Journal of Pagan Studies. London: Equinox. http://www.equinoxpub.com/journals/main.asp?jref=51

 

Member of peer-reviewed journal editorial panel of Australian Religion Studies Review. London: Equinox. http://www.equinoxpub.com/journals/main.asp?jref=57

 

Member of peer-reviewed journal editorial panel of Fieldwork in Religion. London: Equinox. http://www.equinoxpub.com/journals/main.asp?jref=55

 

Associate Editor with particular responsibilities for Paganisms entries, and taskforce member for European ‘Religions, Nature and Culture’ entries, Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature (general editor: Bron Taylor, University of Florida), London / New York: Continuum, 2006

 

9.         PUBLICATIONS (click here for a version with book covers, publisher's links, some reviews, etc.)

 

Books

 

(a) authored and co-authored

 

Harvey, G., and R. Wallis (2006) Historical Dictionary of Shamanism. Lanham: Scarecrow Press. 308pp. ISBN 0810857987 (50%)

Harvey, G. (2005) Animism. London: C. Hurst & Co.; New York: Columbia University Press; Adelaide: Wakefield Press. 251pp. UK ISBN 1850657580. (100%)

Harvey, G. (1997) (Second edition 2006.) Listening People, Speaking Earth: Contemporary Paganism. London: Hurst & Co.; Adelaide: Wakefield Press; New York: New York University Press (under the title Contemporary Paganism: Listening People, Speaking Earth.). Italian translation: Credenti della nuova èra: I pagani contemporanei, Rome: Editore Feltrinelli, 2000. 250pp. UK ISBN: 1850652724. (100%)

Harvey, G. (1996) The True Israel: uses of the names Jew, Hebrew and Israel in Ancient Jewish and Early Christian Literature. Leiden: E.J. Brill. In the series Arbeiten zur geschichte des antiken Judentums und des Urchristentums. 303pp. ISBN 9004106170. (100%)

 

(b) edited

 

Harvey, G. (ed.) (2005) Ritual and Religious Belief: a Reader. London: Equinox, and New York: Routledge. ISBN 1904768172 (100%)

Harvey, G. and C. Thompson (eds) (2005) Indigenous Diasporas and Dislocations. Aldershot: Ashgate. ISBN 0754639061 (50%)

Blain, J., D. Ezzy and G. Harvey (eds) (2004) Researching Paganisms. New York: Altamira. 273pp. ISBN 0759105235. (33%)

Clifton, C. and G. Harvey. (eds) (2004) The Paganism Reader. London: Routledge. 387pp. ISBN 0415404532. (50%)

Harvey, G. (ed.) (2003) Shamanism: A Reader. London: Routledge. 461pp. ISBN 0415253306. (100%)

Harvey, G. (ed.) (2002) Readings in Indigenous Religions. London: Continuum. 371pp. ISBN 0826451012. (100%)

Ralls MacLeod, K. and G. Harvey (eds) (2001). Indigenous Religious Musics. Aldershot: Ashgate. 225pp plus CD. ISBN 0754602494. (50%)

Edge, P., and G. Harvey (eds) (2000) Law and Religion in Contemporary Society: Communities, Individualism and the State. Aldershot: Ashgate. 205pp. ISBN 0754613062. (50%)

Harvey, G. (ed.) (2000) Indigenous Religions: A Companion. London and New York: Cassell. 302pp. ISBN 0304704482 (100%)

Harvey, G., and C. Hardman.(eds) (1996) Paganism Today: Ancient Earth Traditions for the 21st Century. London: Thorsons. Reprinted as Pagan Pathways: a Guide to the Ancient Earth Traditions, 2000. 249pp. ISBN 0725532334 (50%)

Davies, J., G. Harvey, and W. Watson (eds) (1995) Words Remembered, Texts Renewed: Festschrift for Prof. John F.A. Sawyer. Sheffield Academic Press. 533pp. ISBN 18507554206 (65% of editing)

 

Chapters in books

 

Harvey, G. (2007) ‘Inventing Paganism’ in James Lewis and Olav Hammer (eds) The Invention of Sacred Traditions. Cambridge University Press. pp. 277-90. ISBN 9780521864794

Harvey, G. (2007) ‘Huldah’s Scroll: a pagan Reading’ in Lisa Isherwood (ed.), Patriarchs, Prophets and Other Villains, London: Equinox. Pp.85-100. ISBN 9781845531317

Harvey, G. (2006) ‘Discworld and Otherworld: The popularisation of Pagan fantasy literature’, in Lynne Hume and Kathleen McPhillips (eds), Popular Spiritualities: The Politics of Contemporary Enchantment, Aldershot: Ashgate. pp. 41-51. ISBN 0754639991

Harvey, G. (2005) ‘Becoming Pagan having been Christian’ in Christopher Partridge and Helen Reid (eds), Finding and Losing Faith: Studies in Conversion, Bletchley: Paternoster Press. pp. 56-69. ISBN 1842274104

Harvey, G. (2005) ‘Performing identity and entertaining guests: Maori diaspora in London’ in Graham Harvey and Charlie Thompson, Indigenous Diasporas and Dislocation. Aldershot: Ashgate. pp. 121-134. ISBN 0754639061

Harvey, G. (2005) ‘Performing and Constructing Research as Guesthood’ in Lynne Hume and Jane Mulcock (eds), Anthropologists in the Field. New York: Columbia University Press. pp. 168-82. ISBN 0231130058

Harvey, G. (2004) ‘Pagan Studies or the Study of Paganisms? A case study in the study of religions’ in Jenny Blain, Doug Ezzy and Graham Harvey (eds). Researching Paganisms. New York: Altamira. pp.241-55. ISBN 0759105235

Harvey, G. (2001) ‘Comments on “The Permeability of Boundaries debate: alternative archaeology — has it happened?”’ in R.J. Wallis and K. Lymer (eds) A Permeability of Boundaries? New Approaches to the Archaeology of Art, Religion and Folklore. Oxford, BAR International Series 936. pp. 121-3. ISBN 1841711748

Harvey, G. (2000) ‘Boggarts and Books: towards an appreciation of Pagan Spirituality’ in: Steven Sutcliffe and Marion Bowman (eds). Beyond New Age: Exploring Alternative Spirituality. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. pp.155-68. ISBN 0748609989

Harvey, G. (2000) ‘Introduction’ in Graham Harvey (ed.) Indigenous Religions: a Companion. London / New York: Cassell. pp.1-19. ISBN 0304704482

Harvey, G. (2000) ‘Art Works in Aotearoa’ in Graham Harvey (ed.) Indigenous Religions: a Companion. London / New York: Cassell. pp.155-72. ISBN 0304704482

Harvey, G. (1999) ‘Coming Home and Coming Out Pagan  but not Converting’ in Christopher Lamb and Darrol Bryant (eds) Religious Conversion: Contemporary Practices and Controversies. Issues in Contemporary Religion; London: Cassell. pp. 233-46. ISBN 0304338435

Harvey, G. (1998) ‘Synagogues of the Hebrews: “Good Jews” in the Diaspora’ in Siân Jones and Sarah Pearce (eds). Jewish Local Patriotism and Self-Identification in the Graeco-Roman Period. JSPss 31; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press. pp.132-47. ISBN 1850758328

Harvey, G. (1996) ‘Heathenism: a North European Pagan tradition’, in Harvey, G., Hardman, C. (eds) Paganism Today. London: Thorsons. pp.49-64. ISBN 0722532334

Harvey, G. (1995) ‘Ritual Abuse Allegations, Incitement to Religious Hatred: Pagans and Christians in Court’, in Towler, R. (ed.) New Religions and the New Europe. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press. pp.154-170. ISBN 8772884339

Harvey, G. (1995) ‘The Suffering of Witches and Children: Uses of the Witchcraft Passages in the Bible’, in Davies, J., Harvey, G., Watson, W.G.E. (eds). Words Remembered, Texts Renewed: Festschrift for Prof. John F.A. Sawyer. Sheffield Academic Press. pp.113-34. ISBN18507554206

Harvey, G. (1994) ‘Death and Remembrance in Modern Paganism’, in Davies, J. (ed.) Ritual and Remembrance: Responses to Death in Human Societies. Sheffield Academic Press. pp.103-22. ISBN 1850754691

 

Occasional Papers

 

Harvey, G. (1997) Religious Experience in Contemporary Society, Religious Experience Research Centre Occasional Paper 14 (2nd Series). Oxford: Religious Experience Research Centre. 13 pp. ISBN 0906165229 (100%)

 

Special issues of Journals

 

Harvey, G. (guest editor) (2003) issue of Ecotheology 8.1 ‘Nature Constructing Societies’. ISSN 1363-7320 (90%)

Harvey, G., and M. Bowman (guest editors) (2000) special issue of Diskus, ‘Pagan Identities’. http://www.uni-marburg.de/fb03/religionswissenschaft/journal/diskus/#6 ISSN 0967-8948 (50%)

 

 

Journal articles

 

(a) refereed journals

 

Harvey, G. (2006) ‘Animals, Animists and Academics’, Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science. 41.1: pp.9-19. ISSN 05912385

Harvey, G. (2004) ‘Endo-cannibalism in the making of a recent British Ancestor’, Mortality 9.3: 255-67. ISSN 13576275

Harvey, G. (2003) ‘Environmentalism in the construction of indigeneity’, Ecotheology 8.2: 206-23. ISSN 13637320

Harvey, G. (2003) ‘Guesthood as ethical decolonising research method’, Numen 50.2: 125-46. ISSN 0029-5973

Harvey, G. (2002) ‘Sacred Places in the Construction of Indigenous Environmentalism’, Ecotheology 7.1: 60-73. . ISSN 13637320

Harvey, G. (2000) ‘Fantasy in the Study of Religions: Paganism as observed and enhanced by Terry Pratchett’, Diskus, 6, 2000. http://www.uni-marburg.de/religionswissenschaft/journal/diskus/#6 . ISSN 09678948

Harvey, G. (1998) ‘Shamanism in Britain Today’, Performance Research 3.3: 15-23. ISSN 13528165

Harvey, G. (1996) ‘Paganism and the Environment’, Faiths and the Environment: Conference Papers. Faith in Dialogue 1. Centre for Inter-Faith Dialogue, Middlesex University. pp.71-85. ISSN 13585045

Harvey, G. (1996) ‘The Authority of Intimacy in Paganism and Goddess Spirituality’, Diskus 4.1: 34-48. ISSN 09678948

Harvey, G. (1995) ‘Satanism in Britain Today’, Journal of Contemporary Religion 10. pp.283-96. ISSN 13537903

 

 

(b) non-refereed journals

 

Harvey, G. (2002) ‘Satanism: performing alterity and othering’, in Syzygy: Journal of Alternative Religion and Culture (Special Issue on Satanism, guest edited by Jesper A. Petersen) 11: 53-68. ISSN 10596860

Harvey, G. (2002) ‘Mary Douglas’ Purity and Danger’, Turning Point, in BASR Bulletin No. 96: 31-2

Harvey, G. (2002) ‘Satanismo: realidades e acusações’ (‘Satanism: realities and accusations’), Revita de Estudos da Religião No. 3. (journal at http://www.pucsp.br/rever) (In Portuguese). ISSN 16771222

Harvey, G. (2001) ‘Maori Diaspora Spirituality, global indigeneity and the construction of academia’ at http://www.cesnur.org/2001/london2001/harvey.htm

Harvey, G. (1995) ‘Jewish-Christians: Jesus and now’, Theology 98: 461-66. ISSN 0040571

Harvey, G. (1994) ‘The Roots of Pagan Ecology’, Religion Today, 9.3: 38-41. ISSN 02671700

Harvey, G. (1993) ‘Gods and Hedgehogs in the Greenwood: the Cosmology of Contemporary Paganism’, in Mapping Invisible Worlds, Cosmos 9: 89-94. ISSN 02698773

Harvey, G. (1993) ‘Avalon from the Mists: the contemporary teaching of Goddess Spirituality’, Religion Today 8.2: 10-13. ISSN 02671700

Harvey, G. (1989) ‘Bastille Day, the Bible and Mrs. Thatcher’, New Blackfriars 70: 552-4. ISSN 00284289.

 

Conference papers

 

Apart from invited conference papers (listed at 8e), I have included revised conference papers in their published form under other categories. My list of un-published conference papers currently numbers 50+. In 2005-2007 I presented the following papers (including key note and invited papers):

        

April 2007: Guesthood as method and interpretation in the study of indigenous religions’ at IAHR special conference, ‘New Challenges in the Academic Study of Religion’, Stockholm.

Sept 2006: ‘Minobimaatisiiwin: indigenous approaches to ethical living’, BASR annual conference, Bath Spa University

Sept 2006: ‘Faeries loose their tutus and play games without frontiers: the recovery of a sinister tradition’, annual conference of the European Association for the Study of Religions, Bucharest, Rumania

July 2006: ‘Other animists, other modernists: contesting personhood in the study of indigenous religions’, keynote presentation at the annual conference of the Australian Association for the Study of Religions, Adelaide, Australia

June 2006: ‘Guests and strangers: the vitality of indigenous religious cultures and the life of “object persons’, (Re) contesting Indigenous Knowledges, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Nov 2005: ‘The new animism and the study of indigenous religions’, American Academy of Religion, Philadelphia USA

July 2005: ‘Between Romanticism and Radicalism: Researching and Teaching Religious Environmentalism’, keynote presentation at the Religions in Conversation with the Environment Conference, Birmingham, funded by The Higher Education Academy Subject Centres for Philosophical and Religious Studies and Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

June 2005: ‘Guests and Hosts: transforming academic paradigms in conversation with Maori diaspora communities’, The Indigenous Knowledges Conference - Reconciling Academic Priorities with Indigenous Realities Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand

 

Encyclopedia entries

 

Harvey, G. (2007) ‘Animism’, Shamanism’ and ‘Chief Seattle’s Speech’ in Encyclopedia of Animal-Human Relationships: A Global Exploration of our Connections with Animals. Greenwood Publishing Group. Vol. 2: 449-51, 465-6, 605-7. ISBN 978-0-313-33489-4.

Harvey, G. (2007) ‘Animism’, Microsoft Encarta Reference Library 2007. DVD

Harvey, G. (2006) ‘Satanism’, ‘Church of Satan’, ‘Temple of Set’ and ‘Set’, in Peter Clarke (ed.) Encyclopedia of New Religious Movements, Routledge. ISBN 0415267072

   Harvey, G. (2006) ‘Paganism’, Microsoft Encarta Reference Library 2006. DVD

Harvey, G. (2006) ‘Paganism: an Overview’, ‘Contemporary Animism’, ‘Otherworld’, ‘John Michell’ and ‘Stonehenge’ in Bron Taylor (ed.), Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature, Continuum. ISBN 1843711389

Harvey, G. (2006) ‘Indigenous Religions’ in Chris Partridge (ed.), The World’s Religions: A Lion Handbook, Lion. ISBN 0745951287

Harvey, G. (2005) ‘Cremation in alternative spiritualities’ in Douglas Davies and Lewis Mates (eds), Encyclopedia of Cremation. Aldershot: Ashgate. ISBN 0754637735

 

Publications in press

 

(a) chapters in books:

 

Harvey, G. (2008) ‘Satanism: performing alterity and othering’ in James Lewis and Jesper A. Petersen (eds) Contemporary Religious Satanism, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008.

Harvey, G. (2009) ‘Paganism’ in Linda Woodhead and Chris Partridge (eds) Religions in the Modern World, Blackwell.

 

            (b) articles in encyclopedia

    “Animism” in Encyclopedia of Death and the Human Experience, Sage, 2009.