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Graham Harvey (born 25 August 1959) is an English religious studies scholar. He specialises in modern Paganism, indigenous religions and animism.
Professor Graham Harvey | |
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| Born | 25 August 1959 |
| Education | Newcastle University |
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Graham Harvey was born in 1959.[1] He obtained a Ph.D. title at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1991 on a dissertation about group identity in ancient Jewish literature. From 1991 to 1995 he taught religious studies in Newcastle. From 1996 to 2003 he worked as a reader and principal lecturer in religious studies at the King Alfred's College, Winchester.[2] Since 2003 he works at the Open University where he is a professor and was head of the religious studies department from 2013 to 2017.[3]
After being invited to do a presentation about contemporary druids, Harvey began to do fieldwork about modern Paganism which resulted in several books, notably Listening People, Speaking Earth: Contemporary Paganism (1997) and Researching Paganisms (2004).[3] He has written extensively about indigenous religions and animism, producing the monograph Animism: Respecting the Living World (2005) and the edited volume The Handbook of Contemporary Animism (2013).[4][5] In the monograph Food, Sex & Strangers: Understanding Religion as Everyday Life (2013) he seeks to define religion through people's behaviours and everyday practices rather than belief.[6]
Harvey practices modern Paganism with druid orders and as animism with ecological activists. He is married and also participates in Jewish celebrations with his wife.[7]
Monographs
- The True Israel: Uses of the Names Jew, Hebrew and Israel in Ancient Jewish and Early Christian Literature, Brill, 1996
- Listening People, Speaking Earth: Contemporary Paganism, Hurst, 1997
- Animism: Respecting the Living World, Hurst, 2005
- What do Pagans Believe?, Granta, 2007
- Food, Sex and Strangers: Understanding Religion as Everyday Life, Routledge, 2013
Edited volumes
- Words Remembered, Texts Renewed: Festschrift for Prof John F.A. Sawyer, with Jon Davies and Wilfred G. E. Watson, Sheffield Academic Press, 1995
- Paganism Today: Witches, Druids, the Goddess and Ancient Earth Traditions for the Twenty-First Century, with Charlotte Hardman, Thorsons, 1996
- Indigenous Religions: A Companion, Cassell, 2000
- Law and Religion in Contemporary Society: Communities, Individualism and the State, with Peter W. Edge, Ashgate, 2000
- Indigenous religious musics, with Karen Ralls-MacLeod, Ashgate, 2000
- Shamanism: A Reader, Routledge, 2003
- Historical Dictionary of Shamanism, with Robert Wallis, Scarecrow, 2004
- Researching Paganisms, with Jenny Blain and Douglas Ezzy, AltaMira, 2004
- The Paganism Reader, with Chas S. Clifton, Routledge, 2004
- Ritual and Religious Belief: a reader, Equinox, 2005
- Indigenous diasporas and dislocations, with Charles D. Thompson Jr, Ashgate, 2005
- Religions in Focus: New Approaches to Tradition and Contemporary Practices, Equinox, 2009
- Handbook of Contemporary Animism, Acumen, 2013
- Edward Burnett Tylor, Religion and Culture, with Paul-François Tremlett and Liam T. Sutherland, Bloomsbury, 2017
- Sensual Religion: Religion and the Five Senses, with Jessica Hughes, Equinox, 2018
- Indigenizing Movements in Europe, Equinox, 2020
- Reassembling Democracy: Ritual and Cultural Resource, with Michael Houseman, Sarah M. Pike and Jone Salomonsen, Bloomsbury, 2020
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