M Bowman
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3553 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | M Bowman |
| NOMBRES | M |
| APELLIDO | Bowman |
| FIRMA | BOWMAN M |
| AFILIACIONES | The Open University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5985-7322 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 42 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 73 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 42 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1989 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Gillian Clayton Bennett (née Lawley), 1939–2023
Vernacular Religion and Contemporary Spiritualities. Tribute to Leonard Norman Primiano (1957-2021)
It is now more than a quarter century since Leonard Primiano’s seminal article “Vernacular Religion and the Search for Method in Religious Folklife” launched the concept of Vernacular Religion to denote the study of “religion as it is lived: as human beings encounter, understand, interpret, and practice it” (Primiano 1995: 44). Vernacular Religion demands that scholars take seriously the minutiae of how people live their religion in particular co…
Leonard Norman Primiano (1957–2021)
Raising the dead
When Diana, Princess of Wales, died on August 31st 1997 there were extraordinary reactions to her death, including expressions of mourning recorded in Books of Condolences. This article revisits the Book of Condolences set up at Wells Cathedral in England, to elicit what this genre of ritualised writing told us then about popular religion, contemporary spirituality and 'de-institutionalised' notions of death and afterlife. Arguably the 'Diana eve…
Rehabilitating” Pilgrimage in Scotland
Caminoization and the heritagization of religion are significant factors in the development of “new” pilgrimage in Scotland this century, helping to produce pragmatic and distinctive reworkings of pilgrimage in what was, traditionally, a predominantly Protestant milieu. Here I review the pre- and post-Reformation context of Scottish pilgrimage, outline significant influences and agents in “new” Scottish pilgrimage ideas and praxis (including the …
Reframing Pilgrimage in Northern Europe
A Cathedral Is Not Just for Christmas
Religion in cathedrals
Much of this thematic issue emerges from work carried out for an AHRC-funded project, Pilgrimage and England’s Cathedrals, Past and Present Cathedrals (PEC). In this introduction, we explore the possibilities of developing a new sub-field oriented around exploring the shaping of belief and praxis in and by cathedrals. After noting the renewed popularity of these institutions in England, we provide a brief history of cathedrals within and beyond E…
Caminoisation and Cathedrals
This article focuses upon a specific aspect of the revival of pilgrimage in Europe, the replication of the Camino de Santiago. The Camino has become regarded increasingly as ‘prototypical’ pilgrimage, particularly by those previously largely unfamiliar with pilgrimage, and copied in contexts far from Spain. This tendency towards the importation, re-conceptualisation and (to varying degrees) replication of the Camino in the pilgrims’ native countr…
Apsa Active and Award Committees
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The contented collector
Collecting vernacular religious paraphernalia is, for me, a constant, highly enjoyable and largely harmless compulsion. It adds a third dimension to the many photographs I take in relation to field
Christianity, Plurality and Vernacular Religion in early Twentieth-Century Glastonbury
This essay focuses upon a significant place, Glastonbury, at an important time during the early twentieth century, in order to shed light on a particular aspect of Christianity which is frequently overlooked: its internal plurality. This is not simply denominational diversity, but the considerable heterogeneity which exists at both institutional and individual level within denominations, and which often escapes articulation, awareness or comment.…
Voices of Play
Book Review| January 01 2015 Voices of Play: Miskitu Children’s Speech and Song on the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua Voices of Play: Miskitu Children’s Speech and Song on the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua. By Amanda Minks. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2013. Pp. 240, figures, notes, references, index.). Melany M. Bowman Melany M. Bowman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2015) 128 (507): 1…
Vernacular Religion, Contemporary Spirituality and Emergent Identities
This article examines lessons which can still be learned from Professor Lauri Honko's research and writings, particularly for those working at the interstices of folklore and religious studies who appreciate the mutually enriching relationship between the two fields which has been the hallmark of modern Finnish and Nordic scholarship. Three broad areas are considered here by way of illustration: the importance of studying belief and the continuin…
Learning from experience
In this article some of the experiences and insights gained from roughly fifteen years of conducting a long term study of Glastonbury are examined. Glastonbury, a small town in the south west of England, has become a multivalent pilgrimage site for a variety of spiritual seekers, and an icon of integrative spirituality (my preferred term for ‘alternative’ or ‘New Age’ spirituality). The concept of vernacular religion is explained, and its appropr…
Jennifer Westwood (1940–2008)
Jennifer (‘Jen’) Westwood, folklorist, author and broadcaster, was remarkable in many ways. Through her books and broadcasts, lectures and letters, exhibitions and emails, she informed and inspired
A Tale of Two Celticities
This article examines examples of Celtic revival in the context of contemporary spirituality in the city of Bath, in the south west of England. Two case studies are featured, one involving the hot springs of Bath and the other Bath’s alleged ‘Druidic’ heritage. In both cases, there have been revivals which look to a Celtic past as a model for the present, and a vision for the future. However, a variety of markers and measures of Celticity emerge …
Towards a Unified Treaty Body for Monitoring Compliance with UN Human Rights Conventions? Legal Mechanisms for Treaty Reform
There has been much discussion in recent years regarding the possibility of creating a unified treaty body for monitoring the implementation by states of the seven major human rights treaties of potentially global application, that is to say, the 1966 International Covenants on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR)1 and on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR);2 the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimin…
Power play
Glastonbury, a small town in the south-west of England, is considered significant by a wide variety of spiritual seekers, including Christians of various denominations, pagans, Druids, Goddess devotees, self-styled ‘New Agers’, Buddhists, Sufis, earth energies researchers, healers and others who feel that they have in some way been ‘called’ or ‘drawn’ to the town. Although, for the most part, groups and individuals of very different religious p…
The Holy Thorn Ceremony
Glastonbury and Holy Ceremony Glastonbury is a small market town (population approximately 9000) that rises up steeply from Somerset Levels, an area of drained marshland, in south west of England. centre of town is dominated by ruins of once magnificent Glastonbury Abbey, one of most significant British pilgrimage destinations of Middle Ages until its dissolution at Reformation in 1539. Despite Abbey's demise, people continued to be drawn to town…
A Pocket Guide to Superstitions of the British Isles; Penguin Guide to the Superstitions of Britain and Ireland
Ancient Avalon, New Jerusalem, Heart Chakra of Planet Earth
Glastonbury, a small town in the south west of England, is the focus for a variety of spiritual seekers and religious practitioners. It therefore provides an interesting and appropriate context in which to explore the relationship between the local and the global in the contemporary spiritual milieu.This article explores the extent to which Glastonbury has claimed a "serial centrality" over the centuries in relation to different religious trends,…
Taking Stories Seriously
Presidential address given to the Folklore society, March 2004[1]
Glastonbury, a small town in the south‐west of England, is considered significant by a variety of religious groups and spiritual seekers. While there is a large degree of peaceful co‐existence between people holding radically different worldviews, the contested nature of Glastonbury as a spiritual centre is occasionally played out by means of public displays of religiosity, the most obvious example of which is the procession. This paper compares …
Vernacular religion and nature
In this paper I shall set out some of the basic ideas and terms underlying my views on the relationship between folkore and the study of religion, and on why I believe this can be such a fruitful partnership. I shall then use the case study of the “Bible of the Folk” tradition in Newfoundland to demonstrate some of these points
Caminoisation and Cathedrals
This article focuses upon a specific aspect of the revival of pilgrimage in Europe, the replication of the Camino de Santiago. The Camino has become regarded increasingly as ‘prototypical’ pilgrimage, particularly by those previously largely unfamiliar with pilgrimage, and copied in contexts far from Spain. This tendency towards the importation, re-conceptualisation and (to varying degrees) replication of the Camino in the pilgrims’ native countr…
The Holy Thorn Ceremony
Glastonbury and Holy Ceremony Glastonbury is a small market town (population approximately 9000) that rises up steeply from Somerset Levels, an area of drained marshland, in south west of England. centre of town is dominated by ruins of once magnificent Glastonbury Abbey, one of most significant British pilgrimage destinations of Middle Ages until its dissolution at Reformation in 1539. Despite Abbey's demise, people continued to be drawn to town…
Religion in cathedrals
Much of this thematic issue emerges from work carried out for an AHRC-funded project, Pilgrimage and England’s Cathedrals, Past and Present Cathedrals (PEC). In this introduction, we explore the possibilities of developing a new sub-field oriented around exploring the shaping of belief and praxis in and by cathedrals. After noting the renewed popularity of these institutions in England, we provide a brief history of cathedrals within and beyond E…
Presidential address given to the Folklore society, March 2004[1]
Glastonbury, a small town in the south‐west of England, is considered significant by a variety of religious groups and spiritual seekers. While there is a large degree of peaceful co‐existence between people holding radically different worldviews, the contested nature of Glastonbury as a spiritual centre is occasionally played out by means of public displays of religiosity, the most obvious example of which is the procession. This paper compares …
Frequency and thoroughness of STD/HIV risk assessment by physicians in a high-risk metropolitan area
The US Preventive Services Task Force recommends that all primary care physicians assess the sexually transmitted disease/human immunodeficiency virus (STD/HIV) risk of all adolescent and adult patients. To determine whether factors amenable to change through continuing medical education are associated with frequent and thorough STD/HIV risk assessment, a telephone survey of primary care physicians in the Washington, DC metropolitan area was cond…
Rehabilitating” Pilgrimage in Scotland
Caminoization and the heritagization of religion are significant factors in the development of “new” pilgrimage in Scotland this century, helping to produce pragmatic and distinctive reworkings of pilgrimage in what was, traditionally, a predominantly Protestant milieu. Here I review the pre- and post-Reformation context of Scottish pilgrimage, outline significant influences and agents in “new” Scottish pilgrimage ideas and praxis (including the …
Reframing Pilgrimage in Northern Europe
Vernacular Religion, Contemporary Spirituality and Emergent Identities
This article examines lessons which can still be learned from Professor Lauri Honko's research and writings, particularly for those working at the interstices of folklore and religious studies who appreciate the mutually enriching relationship between the two fields which has been the hallmark of modern Finnish and Nordic scholarship. Three broad areas are considered here by way of illustration: the importance of studying belief and the continuin…
Vernacular religion and nature
In this paper I shall set out some of the basic ideas and terms underlying my views on the relationship between folkore and the study of religion, and on why I believe this can be such a fruitful partnership. I shall then use the case study of the “Bible of the Folk” tradition in Newfoundland to demonstrate some of these points
Ancient Avalon, New Jerusalem, Heart Chakra of Planet Earth
Glastonbury, a small town in the south west of England, is the focus for a variety of spiritual seekers and religious practitioners. It therefore provides an interesting and appropriate context in which to explore the relationship between the local and the global in the contemporary spiritual milieu.This article explores the extent to which Glastonbury has claimed a "serial centrality" over the centuries in relation to different religious trends,…
The noble savage and the global village
This article examines some of the assumptions underlying cultural evolution and such concepts as the Noble Savage and the Golden Age. Looking briefly at the influence and inference of these ideas in the past, their use and appearance in certain aspects of contemporary Pagan and New Age thought are then explored. The notion of the Noble Savage has recurred in various guises since at least classical times, and people have looked longingly to a lost…
Reinventing the celts
This paper, based largely upon fieldwork in Glastonbury, gives an overview of some of the beliefs and speculations about Celts and Druids which are now circulating in certain New Age circles. In addition to some innovative ideas, elements of this new received wisdom are redolent of the antiquarian speculation of the 18th century. However, ‘Celticity’ is now being regarded by New Agers primarily as a quality rather than a matter of historical or g…
Learning from experience
In this article some of the experiences and insights gained from roughly fifteen years of conducting a long term study of Glastonbury are examined. Glastonbury, a small town in the south west of England, has become a multivalent pilgrimage site for a variety of spiritual seekers, and an icon of integrative spirituality (my preferred term for ‘alternative’ or ‘New Age’ spirituality). The concept of vernacular religion is explained, and its appropr…
Leonard Norman Primiano (1957–2021)
The contented collector
Collecting vernacular religious paraphernalia is, for me, a constant, highly enjoyable and largely harmless compulsion. It adds a third dimension to the many photographs I take in relation to field
Research Note
Presumably, Where were you when you heard the news about Diana? will become a significant question in the future; it will become the catalyst for personal experience narratives, contemporary legends, examples of folk poetry and reminiscences and reflections about what changes (if any) her death set in motion. As a folklorist and scholar of contemporary religion, it seems important to me to put down descriptive markers which can be used as raw dat…
The Folklore Society Annual Report, March 1988–March 1989
The Folklore Society Annual Report, March 1989–March 1990
Frequency and thoroughness of STD/HIV risk assessment by physicians in a high-risk metropolitan area
The US Preventive Services Task Force recommends that all primary care physicians assess the sexually transmitted disease/human immunodeficiency virus (STD/HIV) risk of all adolescent and adult patients. To determine whether factors amenable to change through continuing medical education are associated with frequent and thorough STD/HIV risk assessment, a telephone survey of primary care physicians in the Washington, DC metropolitan area was cond…
The Folklore Society Annual Report, March 1990–March 1991
Letter
The Folklore Society Annual Report, March 1991–March 1992
Drawn to Glastonbury
Here if anywhere resides the religious soul of England. It breathes across the time-washed landscape and invokes its energy through the carefully arranged geomantic monuments of earth and stone. The revolutionary revival of Albion’s true spirit will be the precursor of a New Age and that apocalyptic revival will spring from the eternally universal fountainhead that is Glastonbury. (Anthony Roberts, Glastonbury: Ancient Avalon, New Jerusalem , 197…
Award Recipients
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The Folklore Society Annual Report and Accounts, March 1992–March 1993
Reinventing the celts
This paper, based largely upon fieldwork in Glastonbury, gives an overview of some of the beliefs and speculations about Celts and Druids which are now circulating in certain New Age circles. In addition to some innovative ideas, elements of this new received wisdom are redolent of the antiquarian speculation of the 18th century. However, ‘Celticity’ is now being regarded by New Agers primarily as a quality rather than a matter of historical or g…
The noble savage and the global village
This article examines some of the assumptions underlying cultural evolution and such concepts as the Noble Savage and the Golden Age. Looking briefly at the influence and inference of these ideas in the past, their use and appearance in certain aspects of contemporary Pagan and New Age thought are then explored. The notion of the Noble Savage has recurred in various guises since at least classical times, and people have looked longingly to a lost…
People in Political Science
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Committees of the American Political Science Association
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Response To Steven Sutcliffe
Belief, Legend and Perceptions of the Sacred in Contemporary Bath
For centuries Bath has exercised an attraction as a centre of religion, healing and pilgrimage. As the name implies, Bath contains hot water--to be precise it has three geothermal springs which emerge from the ground at temperatures between 42 and 47 degrees centigrade, at a rate of around 1.2 million litres per day. The unique hot waters of Bath have attracted attention since prehistoric times as the hottest springs in Britain, and their powers …
Research Note
Presumably, Where were you when you heard the news about Diana? will become a significant question in the future; it will become the catalyst for personal experience narratives, contemporary legends, examples of folk poetry and reminiscences and reflections about what changes (if any) her death set in motion. As a folklorist and scholar of contemporary religion, it seems important to me to put down descriptive markers which can be used as raw dat…
Healing in the Spiritual Marketplace
This article explores the ways in which the widely perceived “need for healing” at individual and global level have given rise to a range of new professions within the spiritual marketplace. It examines attitudes to money, the provision of training and the growth of credentialism in this sector of the spiritual service industry, where both clients and practitioners regard healing as important elements in their spiritual quest
Vernacular religion and nature
In this paper I shall set out some of the basic ideas and terms underlying my views on the relationship between folkore and the study of religion, and on why I believe this can be such a fruitful partnership. I shall then use the case study of the “Bible of the Folk” tradition in Newfoundland to demonstrate some of these points
Taking Stories Seriously
Presidential address given to the Folklore society, March 2004[1]
Glastonbury, a small town in the south‐west of England, is considered significant by a variety of religious groups and spiritual seekers. While there is a large degree of peaceful co‐existence between people holding radically different worldviews, the contested nature of Glastonbury as a spiritual centre is occasionally played out by means of public displays of religiosity, the most obvious example of which is the procession. This paper compares …
Ancient Avalon, New Jerusalem, Heart Chakra of Planet Earth
Glastonbury, a small town in the south west of England, is the focus for a variety of spiritual seekers and religious practitioners. It therefore provides an interesting and appropriate context in which to explore the relationship between the local and the global in the contemporary spiritual milieu.This article explores the extent to which Glastonbury has claimed a "serial centrality" over the centuries in relation to different religious trends,…
Power play
Glastonbury, a small town in the south-west of England, is considered significant by a wide variety of spiritual seekers, including Christians of various denominations, pagans, Druids, Goddess devotees, self-styled ‘New Agers’, Buddhists, Sufis, earth energies researchers, healers and others who feel that they have in some way been ‘called’ or ‘drawn’ to the town. Although, for the most part, groups and individuals of very different religious p…
The Holy Thorn Ceremony
Glastonbury and Holy Ceremony Glastonbury is a small market town (population approximately 9000) that rises up steeply from Somerset Levels, an area of drained marshland, in south west of England. centre of town is dominated by ruins of once magnificent Glastonbury Abbey, one of most significant British pilgrimage destinations of Middle Ages until its dissolution at Reformation in 1539. Despite Abbey's demise, people continued to be drawn to town…
A Pocket Guide to Superstitions of the British Isles; Penguin Guide to the Superstitions of Britain and Ireland
A Tale of Two Celticities
This article examines examples of Celtic revival in the context of contemporary spirituality in the city of Bath, in the south west of England. Two case studies are featured, one involving the hot springs of Bath and the other Bath’s alleged ‘Druidic’ heritage. In both cases, there have been revivals which look to a Celtic past as a model for the present, and a vision for the future. However, a variety of markers and measures of Celticity emerge …
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