Amy Whitehead
Biographic Data
| ID | 3590167 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amy Whitehead |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amy |
| FAMILY NAME | Whitehead |
| SIGNATURE | WHITEHEAD A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Liverpool John Moores University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4164-9047 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Men Folk and May Poles: Initial Reflections on a Dark Green Man Religion in Glastonbury, England
Glastonbury, a town in the southwest of England, is home to a diverse concentration of religions and spiritualities, some of which demonstrate dark green religious tendencies. One such homegrown, lesser-known movement is the Greenmen of Glastonbury—a growing multi-faith (but primarily Pagan) community whose members unite through participation in the Glastonbury’s May Day (Beltane) celebrations, May Pole/tree-related, sustainable forest practices,…
Unruly Objects: A Decolonial Critique of the “Factish” Language of Representation in the Study of Religion
This article highlights the significance of Bruno Latour’s On the Modern Cult of the Factish Gods (2010) for critically re- animating the language of the fetish and for proposing a framework aimed at more clearly illuminating the often powerful roles of the non- human object- actors that make up the architecture of European religious worlds. Using case study examples, the article offers a decolonial critique to debates by offering a fresh, non- b…
‘Baby Ban’ and ‘we are not the same’: Creative non-fiction dialogue exploring pregnancy and motherhood for a funded Paralympic and unfunded Olympic athlete
Elite athlete mothers are an under researched population. This is remiss given their increasing prevalence, sporting successes, and importance as role models that challenge dominant and traditional views of pregnancy and women in sport. Indeed, sporting organisations are gradually adopting policies to support elite athlete mothers. That said, elite sport is part of a complex social and economic environment that is likely to shape support availabl…
Thinking again about the use of think aloud and stimulated recall methods in sport coaching
Understanding sport coaches’ thought processes in situ is a developing area within both research and applied practice. Research methods such as the Think Aloud protocol (TA) and Stimulated Recall (SR) interviewing have been used to gain qualitative insights into cognitive and behavioural aspects of coaching practice, offering value in moving beyond popular yet somewhat simplistic, traditionally decontextualised uses of standard interview-based me…
Materiality and the Study of Indigenous Religions
Academic attention to Indigenous religions has grown steadily since the 1990s in parallel with increasing attention to the lived, material dimensions of religions. The global emergence of the subfield of material religion in the late 1990s began to highlight the often taken-for-granted and marginalized material aspects of religions by placing religious “things” front and center within cutting-edge debates. Paying scholarly attention to geographic…
We’ll All Dance each Springtime with Jack-in-the-Green’: The ‘Green Man Complex’ in Contemporary British Culture
The Green Man is a familiar image in British popular culture who is celebrated in a variety of ways, not least in an ever-growing number of festive processions in towns, villages, and cities, particularly around Beltane (May Day). Combining two scholarly voices, this article offers a survey of the Green Man image and related ritual phenomena in what we refer to as the ‘Green Man complex’. Here we address the Green Man’s role in what could be the …
La Virgen de Regla: A Material Approach to Lived Religious Transformation in Latin America
Statues of the Virgin Mary have been embarking on various types of movement and migration for centuries. They are the fixed points around which religious activities are carried out in communities in Spain and Latin America and play significant roles in the personal and social lives of their devotees. Until recently, however, scholarship has largely overlooked the potential richness of what religious material cultures can tell us about religious t…
Thinking Aloud. A qualitative analysis of stressors and coping responses in cricket bowlers during a competitive match
Stressors and coping in cricket bowlers have yet to be explicitly examined. The present study aimed to investigate stressors and coping verbalisations of cricket bowlers during a competitive match using a Think Aloud (TA) method. TA provides access to a participant’s immediate short-term memory and overcomes limitations associated with retrospective methods such as recall bias and memory decay. Six semi-elite club level cricket bowlers were selec…
Stakeholder Values Inform Indigenous Peoples’ Governance and Management of a Former National Park in New Zealand
The global emphasis on stakeholder engagement in protected area management has increased over the last three decades. Here we present key values of statutory and non-statutory stakeholder groups as they relate to their relationship with the former Te Urewera National Park (NP), New Zealand, which is now recognised as “a legal entity” with “all the rights , powers, duties, and liabilities of a legal person.” Non-statutory stakeholders conveyed a c…
A method of ‘things’: A relational theory of objects as persons in lived religious practice
Material expressions of religion are some of the most visible ways in which the lived realities of religions can be examined and understood. Religious materiality not only mediates between a continuum of still productive dualisms that exist between ‘official’ and ‘lived’ religion, but is also capable of inspiring relational methodological approaches. Based on a small-scale study of Marian statue devotion in Spain, the article asserts that ‘person…
‘Net Mums’: A narrative account of participants’ experiences within a netball intervention
Back to Netball (B2N) is a coach-led programme established by England Netball, to encourage inactive individuals to re-engage. B2N engages a typically hard to reach group, with 52% of participants being mums. This study aims to understand how a physical activity intervention (i.e. B2N) influences mums’ identity. There is a distinct lack of qualitative studies that include mums’ own voices and how they negotiate being physically active alongside t…
Devotional Bodies, Working Shrines: The Ritual Dynamics of Devotion in an Andalusian Marian Shrine
This article is focused a shrine of the Virgin Mary in the village of Alcala de los Gazules in the Southern Spanish region of Andalusia, a region known for its Marian devotion. Many villages contain their own shrines dedicated to a local Virgin in which the universal Mary is present in a localized, vernacular statue form. As a powerful instantiation of Mary, the Virgin of Alcala has received attention from outside the immediate area due to her ma…
Transforming, storing and consuming athletic experiences: A coach’s narrative of using a video application
The analysis of sport performance in competitive contexts has become synonymous with the use of a range of software applications and hardware e.g. heart rate monitors and gps systems. With the prevalence of technology in mind, a small but growing corpus of literature has begun to consider this phenomenon and its influence upon the coaching process. This study adds to this literature by detailing the autoethnographic experiences of a case study co…
Estimating the sample size for a pilot randomised trial to minimise the overall trial sample size for the external pilot and main trial for a continuous outcome variable
Sample size justification is an important consideration when planning a clinical trial, not only for the main trial but also for any preliminary pilot trial. When the outcome is a continuous variable, the sample size calculation requires an accurate estimate of the standard deviation of the outcome measure. A pilot trial can be used to get an estimate of the standard deviation, which could then be used to anticipate what may be observed in the ma…
Hair offerings, the gift and giving of devotion
Pagans and Things: Idolatry or Materiality
Although Michael York's work on idolatry is important to the study of Paganism, I see the word itself as problematic and provocative. Instead, I opt for the term "materiality" as being more neutral and pointing toward more expansive possibilities
The Goddess and the Virgin: Materiality in Western Europe
Materiality has had the tendency to cause disruptions in Western discourses and for the most part has been relegated to being representational instead of sensual, embodied or tangible. Relationally situated around two forms of the Divine Feminine, this article forms part of a greater work in progress and discusses two ethnographic accounts that highlight the role materiality plays in contemporary Western Europe. An object based discourse is used …
The Goddess and the Virgin: Materiality in Western Europe
Materiality has had the tendency to cause disruptions in Western discourses and for the most part has been relegated to being representational instead of sensual, embodied or tangible. Relationally situated around two forms of the Divine Feminine, this article forms part of a greater work in progress and discusses two ethnographic accounts that highlight the role materiality plays in contemporary Western Europe. An object based discourse is used …
A method of ‘things’: A relational theory of objects as persons in lived religious practice
Material expressions of religion are some of the most visible ways in which the lived realities of religions can be examined and understood. Religious materiality not only mediates between a continuum of still productive dualisms that exist between ‘official’ and ‘lived’ religion, but is also capable of inspiring relational methodological approaches. Based on a small-scale study of Marian statue devotion in Spain, the article asserts that ‘person…
Transforming, storing and consuming athletic experiences: A coach’s narrative of using a video application
The analysis of sport performance in competitive contexts has become synonymous with the use of a range of software applications and hardware e.g. heart rate monitors and gps systems. With the prevalence of technology in mind, a small but growing corpus of literature has begun to consider this phenomenon and its influence upon the coaching process. This study adds to this literature by detailing the autoethnographic experiences of a case study co…
The Goddess and the Virgin: Materiality in Western Europe
Materiality has had the tendency to cause disruptions in Western discourses and for the most part has been relegated to being representational instead of sensual, embodied or tangible. Relationally situated around two forms of the Divine Feminine, this article forms part of a greater work in progress and discusses two ethnographic accounts that highlight the role materiality plays in contemporary Western Europe. An object based discourse is used …
Pagans and Things: Idolatry or Materiality
Although Michael York's work on idolatry is important to the study of Paganism, I see the word itself as problematic and provocative. Instead, I opt for the term "materiality" as being more neutral and pointing toward more expansive possibilities
Hair offerings, the gift and giving of devotion
Estimating the sample size for a pilot randomised trial to minimise the overall trial sample size for the external pilot and main trial for a continuous outcome variable
Sample size justification is an important consideration when planning a clinical trial, not only for the main trial but also for any preliminary pilot trial. When the outcome is a continuous variable, the sample size calculation requires an accurate estimate of the standard deviation of the outcome measure. A pilot trial can be used to get an estimate of the standard deviation, which could then be used to anticipate what may be observed in the ma…
Transforming, storing and consuming athletic experiences: A coach’s narrative of using a video application
The analysis of sport performance in competitive contexts has become synonymous with the use of a range of software applications and hardware e.g. heart rate monitors and gps systems. With the prevalence of technology in mind, a small but growing corpus of literature has begun to consider this phenomenon and its influence upon the coaching process. This study adds to this literature by detailing the autoethnographic experiences of a case study co…
‘Net Mums’: A narrative account of participants’ experiences within a netball intervention
Back to Netball (B2N) is a coach-led programme established by England Netball, to encourage inactive individuals to re-engage. B2N engages a typically hard to reach group, with 52% of participants being mums. This study aims to understand how a physical activity intervention (i.e. B2N) influences mums’ identity. There is a distinct lack of qualitative studies that include mums’ own voices and how they negotiate being physically active alongside t…
Devotional Bodies, Working Shrines: The Ritual Dynamics of Devotion in an Andalusian Marian Shrine
This article is focused a shrine of the Virgin Mary in the village of Alcala de los Gazules in the Southern Spanish region of Andalusia, a region known for its Marian devotion. Many villages contain their own shrines dedicated to a local Virgin in which the universal Mary is present in a localized, vernacular statue form. As a powerful instantiation of Mary, the Virgin of Alcala has received attention from outside the immediate area due to her ma…
Stakeholder Values Inform Indigenous Peoples’ Governance and Management of a Former National Park in New Zealand
The global emphasis on stakeholder engagement in protected area management has increased over the last three decades. Here we present key values of statutory and non-statutory stakeholder groups as they relate to their relationship with the former Te Urewera National Park (NP), New Zealand, which is now recognised as “a legal entity” with “all the rights , powers, duties, and liabilities of a legal person.” Non-statutory stakeholders conveyed a c…
A method of ‘things’: A relational theory of objects as persons in lived religious practice
Material expressions of religion are some of the most visible ways in which the lived realities of religions can be examined and understood. Religious materiality not only mediates between a continuum of still productive dualisms that exist between ‘official’ and ‘lived’ religion, but is also capable of inspiring relational methodological approaches. Based on a small-scale study of Marian statue devotion in Spain, the article asserts that ‘person…
Thinking Aloud. A qualitative analysis of stressors and coping responses in cricket bowlers during a competitive match
Stressors and coping in cricket bowlers have yet to be explicitly examined. The present study aimed to investigate stressors and coping verbalisations of cricket bowlers during a competitive match using a Think Aloud (TA) method. TA provides access to a participant’s immediate short-term memory and overcomes limitations associated with retrospective methods such as recall bias and memory decay. Six semi-elite club level cricket bowlers were selec…
La Virgen de Regla: A Material Approach to Lived Religious Transformation in Latin America
Statues of the Virgin Mary have been embarking on various types of movement and migration for centuries. They are the fixed points around which religious activities are carried out in communities in Spain and Latin America and play significant roles in the personal and social lives of their devotees. Until recently, however, scholarship has largely overlooked the potential richness of what religious material cultures can tell us about religious t…
Materiality and the Study of Indigenous Religions
Academic attention to Indigenous religions has grown steadily since the 1990s in parallel with increasing attention to the lived, material dimensions of religions. The global emergence of the subfield of material religion in the late 1990s began to highlight the often taken-for-granted and marginalized material aspects of religions by placing religious “things” front and center within cutting-edge debates. Paying scholarly attention to geographic…
We’ll All Dance each Springtime with Jack-in-the-Green’: The ‘Green Man Complex’ in Contemporary British Culture
The Green Man is a familiar image in British popular culture who is celebrated in a variety of ways, not least in an ever-growing number of festive processions in towns, villages, and cities, particularly around Beltane (May Day). Combining two scholarly voices, this article offers a survey of the Green Man image and related ritual phenomena in what we refer to as the ‘Green Man complex’. Here we address the Green Man’s role in what could be the …
‘Baby Ban’ and ‘we are not the same’: Creative non-fiction dialogue exploring pregnancy and motherhood for a funded Paralympic and unfunded Olympic athlete
Elite athlete mothers are an under researched population. This is remiss given their increasing prevalence, sporting successes, and importance as role models that challenge dominant and traditional views of pregnancy and women in sport. Indeed, sporting organisations are gradually adopting policies to support elite athlete mothers. That said, elite sport is part of a complex social and economic environment that is likely to shape support availabl…
Thinking again about the use of think aloud and stimulated recall methods in sport coaching
Understanding sport coaches’ thought processes in situ is a developing area within both research and applied practice. Research methods such as the Think Aloud protocol (TA) and Stimulated Recall (SR) interviewing have been used to gain qualitative insights into cognitive and behavioural aspects of coaching practice, offering value in moving beyond popular yet somewhat simplistic, traditionally decontextualised uses of standard interview-based me…
Unruly Objects: A Decolonial Critique of the “Factish” Language of Representation in the Study of Religion
This article highlights the significance of Bruno Latour’s On the Modern Cult of the Factish Gods (2010) for critically re- animating the language of the fetish and for proposing a framework aimed at more clearly illuminating the often powerful roles of the non- human object- actors that make up the architecture of European religious worlds. Using case study examples, the article offers a decolonial critique to debates by offering a fresh, non- b…
Men Folk and May Poles: Initial Reflections on a Dark Green Man Religion in Glastonbury, England
Glastonbury, a town in the southwest of England, is home to a diverse concentration of religions and spiritualities, some of which demonstrate dark green religious tendencies. One such homegrown, lesser-known movement is the Greenmen of Glastonbury—a growing multi-faith (but primarily Pagan) community whose members unite through participation in the Glastonbury’s May Day (Beltane) celebrations, May Pole/tree-related, sustainable forest practices,…
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