Graham Harvey
Biographic Data
| ID | 91527 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Graham Harvey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Graham |
| FAMILY NAME | Harvey |
| SIGNATURE | HARVEY G |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Open University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1917-533X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 46 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Cosmologies
This chapter establishes the foundational centrality of land and kinship for understanding Indigeneity and Indigenous religions. It defines “cosmology” as ways in which people relate to place – from specific locales to the wider cosmos. “Indigenous” and its synonyms (“Native”, “Aboriginal” as well as Indigenous terms such as the Māori tangata whenua) emphasise belonging more strongly than has become typical in the eras of empire and globalisation…
The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in the Study of Indigenous Religions
Exciting developments in research among, with and by Indigenous scholars and communities are enriching a wide range of disciplines, methodologies and trans-disciplinary conversations. The growing field offers important insights and provocations about methods and approaches. Key issues such as relationality, decolonisation, research ethics, pedagogy and collaboration necessarily require improvements both in scholarly description and scholarly prac…
We have always been animists . . .
We have always been animists . . .
Rethinking Indigenous Religious Traditions with Jace Weaver: A Discussion
This roundtable revolves around Jace Weaver’s article ‘“Either the Ball is Green, or the Ball is Not Green”’. Arguing that the field of Indigenous religious traditions has been both under-analyzed and under-theorized, Weaver rejects the facile statement that such traditions are those practiced by Indigenous groups or peoples. He sets forth seven definitional characteristics that create a rubric with which to test religious traditions. He then tes…
Earthly Things: Immanence, New Materialisms, and Planetary Thinking
Globalization and climate weirding are two of the leading phenomena that challenge and change the way we need to think and act within the planetary community. Modern Western understandings of human beings, animals, and the rest of the natural world and the subsequent technologies built on those understandings have thrown us into an array of social and ecological crises with planetary implications. Earthly Things: Immanence, New Materialisms, and…
Book and Film Reviews
ALTNURME, Riho, ed., Old Religion, New Spirituality: Implications of Secularisation and Individualisation in Estonia. xii, 185 pp., 6 tables, 1 map, references, index. Leiden: Brill, 2023. Paperback, $54. ISBN: 978-90-04-52446-0. CHAMEL, Jean, and Yael DANSAC, eds., Relating with More-than-Humans: Interbeing Rituality in a Living World. xvi, 254 pp., 25 b/w ills., index London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. Hardback, $129. ISBN: 978-3-031-10293-6. CH…
Indigeneity in African Religions: Ọza Worldviews, Cosmologies and Religious Cultures, written by Adogame, Afe
Until recently, Indigenous religious traditions have been marginalised, both in the growing international field of Indigenous studies and, curiously, in the study of religions.Despite the foundational contribution of African and other Indigeneities to ethnographic, sociological, and political thinking across the globe, there is a poverty in much of the scholarship that pretends to engage them.For example, many introductions to religions and cultu…
Afterword: What staffs and paths do – a new animist contribution to studying pilgrimage
Interest in material culture has already enriched the study of pilgrimage. It has encouraged attention to more than beliefs, intentions, and meaning-making. More recently, especially with the popularisation of walking for health and wellbeing, scholars have widened their view to consider interactions with the larger-than-human world. This afterword proposes that new animism and related scholarly ‘turns’ might provide new perspectives on the relat…
Belonging to (Not "in") Land as Performed at Indigenous Cultural Events
Drawing on research at two Indigenous festivals - Riddu Riđđu and the ORIGINS Festival of First Nations - this article considers ways in which Indigenous performers present their belonging to (not in) places. They are globally mobile but affirm reciprocal responsibilities with homelands. These two festivals bring together participants from across the world and provide an opportunity to consider further the dynamics of trans-Indigenous creativity.…
Field Research and Participant Observation
Scholars seeking to understand and advance discussion of lived or vernacular religion commonly work with methods called fieldwork or participant observation. Presence among religious people and various forms of participation in religious lives and events provoke and test theorizing about issues current in academia. This chapter considers the foundations of fieldwork approaches, sets out typical practices (such as gaining rapport, building empathy…
Indigenous Religion(s): Local Grounds, Global Networks, written by Siv Ellen Kraft, Bjørn Ola Tafjord, Arkotong Longkumer, Gregory D. Alles, Greg Johnson
Reassembling Democracy: Ritual as Cultural Resource
Diverse processes of democratic participation– and exclusion – are closely bound by ritual acts and complexes. This collection is the result of collaborations and conversations between international researchers who have focused on the use of those cultural resources identifiable as “ritual” as they reassemble democracy. The main question integrating the collection concerns the ways in which the performative qualities of ritual resources achieve t…
Senses of Remembered Places
Contemporary Religions in China
Folk and popular religion is a very significant part of Chinese religious life, especially in rural areas. Contemporary Religions in China focuses on the religious activities of the lay people of contemporary China and their ideas of what it means to be "religious" and to practice "religion". Throughout, the discussion is illustrated with case studies, textboxes, images, thought questions, and further reading, which help to capture what religion …
Children of Lucifer: The Origins of Modern Religious Satanism
Children of Lucifer: The Origins of Modern Religious Satanism." Journal of Contemporary Religion, 33(3), pp. 612–614
If Not all Stones Are Alive: Radical Relationality in Animism Studies
Irving Hallowell’s conversation with an Anishinaabe (Ojibwa) elder in the early twentieth century has gained increasing attention in recent decades. It has been cited by many involved in the multi-disciplinary “turns” to ontology, materiality and relationality. In particular, it has inspired many researchers involved in the “new (approach to) animism”. This article considers efforts to rethink what “person” or “relation” might mean – in the light…
Rethinking Relations and Animism: Personhood and Materiality
Contemporary Japan is often described in utopian terms as a place where humans and nonhumans live and work together in harmony. This acceptance of nonhuman others is explained by some anthropologists as stemming from an “animist unconscious” (Allison 2006) that allows people to attribute “life” to robots and other artefacts, a notion that is explicitly linked to the “Shinto universe” of “native animist beliefs” (Robertson 2010). Contrary to the d…
Ritual and Religious Belief: A Reader
Indigenous Diasporas and Dislocations
Indigenous religions are now present not only in their places of origin but globally. They are significant parts of the pluralism and diversity of the contemporary world, especially when their performance enriches and/or challenges host populations. Indigenous Diasporas and Dislocations engages with examples of communities with different experiences, expectations and evaluations of diaspora life. It contributes significantly to debates about indi…
Pesquisa de Campo
Versão portuguesa do capítulo do The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in the Study of Religion, organizado por Michael Stausberg e Steven Engler. Tradução gentilmente autorizada por Taylor & Francis, proprietária dos direitos autorais da obra
If ‘Spiritual But Not Religious’ People Are Not Religious What Difference Do They Make
Modernity's project of secularisation may be challenged by the resurgence of religion in the public sphere (indicated most dramatically by religiously motivated conflicts but also in more everyday contexts). The rising profile of spirituality in healthcare and business training programmes may offer other challenges. Classically, spirituality has been differentiated from religion along seemingly Cartesian lines: the former being the fully interior…
Playing Croquet with Hedgehogs: (Still) Becoming a Scholar of Paganism and Animism
A reflection on the development of a career partly concerned with the study of Paganisms. After indicating some ways of using a quotation from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, the article considers the question of the subject matter of Pagan Studies. It connects contemporary Paganisms and other cultural phenomena (e.g. indigenous religions and animisms) and indicates the importance of respecting the hosts of our research. The second half of the …
Indigenising in a Globalised World
Being Indigenous seems, by definition, to be about belonging to a place. Sometimes it is even defined as belonging in specific places. Near synonyms like “native” and “aboriginal” can be used to locate people in relation to ancestral, pre-invasion / pre-colonial places. However, Indigenous peoples are no more enclosed by geography than other-than-indigenous peoples. Complex and extensive trade routes and migration patterns are important features …
Whose society, whose experience? A fundamental question for rethinking religion
In “Fundamental Social Motives and the Varieties of Religious Experience” Johnson, Li, and Cohen aim to “initiate a discussion about the ways in which religious beliefs, ritual practices, religious
Animals, Animists, and Academics
Animism is the label given to worldviews in which the world is understood to be a community of living persons, only some of whom are human. (An older use of the term to label a putative “belief in spirits” is less useful.) Animists inculcate locally meaningful means of communicating with other‐than‐human persons, especially in order to express respect. Ethnographic accounts of particular animist ways of engaging with animal persons are noted. I a…
If Not all Stones Are Alive: Radical Relationality in Animism Studies
Irving Hallowell’s conversation with an Anishinaabe (Ojibwa) elder in the early twentieth century has gained increasing attention in recent decades. It has been cited by many involved in the multi-disciplinary “turns” to ontology, materiality and relationality. In particular, it has inspired many researchers involved in the “new (approach to) animism”. This article considers efforts to rethink what “person” or “relation” might mean – in the light…
Rethinking Relations and Animism: Personhood and Materiality
Contemporary Japan is often described in utopian terms as a place where humans and nonhumans live and work together in harmony. This acceptance of nonhuman others is explained by some anthropologists as stemming from an “animist unconscious” (Allison 2006) that allows people to attribute “life” to robots and other artefacts, a notion that is explicitly linked to the “Shinto universe” of “native animist beliefs” (Robertson 2010). Contrary to the d…
Guesthood as Ethical Decolonising Research Method
Debates about research methods have often been concerned with the situation of the researcher in relation to those they research among, about or "on." Reiterating the dualisms embedded in Western culture, many of these have privileged allegedly objective distance between researcher and researched, and worried about researchers "going native." This paper argues that researchers are always more than these dualities suggest, and that an acceptance a…
Belonging to (Not "in") Land as Performed at Indigenous Cultural Events
Drawing on research at two Indigenous festivals - Riddu Riđđu and the ORIGINS Festival of First Nations - this article considers ways in which Indigenous performers present their belonging to (not in) places. They are globally mobile but affirm reciprocal responsibilities with homelands. These two festivals bring together participants from across the world and provide an opportunity to consider further the dynamics of trans-Indigenous creativity.…
Reassembling Democracy: Ritual as Cultural Resource
Diverse processes of democratic participation– and exclusion – are closely bound by ritual acts and complexes. This collection is the result of collaborations and conversations between international researchers who have focused on the use of those cultural resources identifiable as “ritual” as they reassemble democracy. The main question integrating the collection concerns the ways in which the performative qualities of ritual resources achieve t…
Indigenising in a Globalised World
Being Indigenous seems, by definition, to be about belonging to a place. Sometimes it is even defined as belonging in specific places. Near synonyms like “native” and “aboriginal” can be used to locate people in relation to ancestral, pre-invasion / pre-colonial places. However, Indigenous peoples are no more enclosed by geography than other-than-indigenous peoples. Complex and extensive trade routes and migration patterns are important features …
Endo-cannibalism in the making of a recent British ancestor
Following his death in 1975, the ashes of Wally Hope, founder of Stonehenge People's Free Festival, were scattered in the centre of Stonehenge. When a child tasted the ashes the rest of the group followed this lead. In the following decades, as the festival increasingly became the site of contest about British heritage and culture, the story of Wally's ashes was told at significant times. His name continues to be invoked at gatherings today. This…
Religião e Comida, religião como regras para alimentação
Comida e tudo o que ela implica (de produção ao seu consumo) está ganhando uma crescente atenção nos estudos em religião. Isso nos permite alcançar um melhor entendimento das relações fluídicas entre a vida cotidiana e as formas rituais, regras e hierarquias. Este artigo busca demonstrar que há muito mais em jogo na pesquisa sobre religião e comida. Considerando-se a alimentação, nós não apenas adicionamos temperos em nosso trabalho. Teorização s…
Satanism in Britain today
It has been alleged that 10 per cent of the population of Britain are Satanists who conspire (perhaps influenced by a real Devil) to corrupt and blaspheme against everything godly, good or socially valued. This paper discusses the views and activities of self‐identified Satanists in Britain, especially the Temple of Set, the Church of Satan, the Order of the Nine Angles and Dark Lily. It also comments on ad hoc, adolescent and multi‐generational …
Current research on paganism and witchcraft in Britain
(1995). Current research on paganism and witchcraft in Britain. Journal of Contemporary Religion: Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 185-192
Satanism in Britain today
It has been alleged that 10 per cent of the population of Britain are Satanists who conspire (perhaps influenced by a real Devil) to corrupt and blaspheme against everything godly, good or socially valued. This paper discusses the views and activities of self‐identified Satanists in Britain, especially the Temple of Set, the Church of Satan, the Order of the Nine Angles and Dark Lily. It also comments on ad hoc, adolescent and multi‐generational …
Current research on paganism and witchcraft in Britain
(1995). Current research on paganism and witchcraft in Britain. Journal of Contemporary Religion: Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 185-192
Jesus the Only Teacher: Didactic Authority and Transmission in Ancient Israel, Ancient Judaism and the Matthean CommunityByrskogS. Jesus the Only Teacher: Didactic Authority and Transmission in Ancien…
Jewish Christians, Jesus and Now
Approaches to the Bible: The Best of Bible Review. Volume 1 : Composition, Transmission and Language. Volume 2 : A Multitude of Perspectives; Feminist Approaches to the BibleMinkoffH. Approaches to th…
Book notes
First Nations Faith and Ecology. Freda Rajotte, 1998 London: Cassell x +117 pp., £8.99 (pb) ISBN 0–304–70312–5 Religious Pluralism in the West. David George Mullan, ed., 1998 Oxford: Blackwell 350 pp., £50.00/US$64.95 (hb), £15.99/US$29.95 (pb) ISBN 0–631–20669–8 (hb), ISBN 0–631–20670–1 (pb) Hinduism: A Very Short Introduction. Kim Knott, 1998 Oxford: Oxford University Press 139 pp., £5.99 ISBN 0–19–285341–4 Psychoanalytic Studies of Religion: A…
Sacred Places in the Construction of Indigenous Environmentalism
Indigenous people have often been linked with ‘nature’. Recently this has been complimentary, based on the assessment that nature is good, but this was not always the case. This paper is interested in the construction of indigeneity as environmentalist, and in the construction of environmentalism with reference to indigeneity. It is particularly concerned with challenging various relevant Western notions from the perspective that indigenous relig…
Claiming Sacred Ground: Pilgrims and Politics at Glastonbury and Sedona
Claiming Sacred Ground: Pilgrims and Politics at Glastonbury and Sedona by Adrian J. Ivakhiv Bl o oming t on: Indi an Uni ve r s i t y Pre s s , 200. 0 23 3389 9. x x1 + 326
Environmentalism in the Construction of Indigeneity
Environmentalism has been a major aspect of the construction of indigenous identities. Understood broadly, this might always have been true in the sense that indigenous elders have attempted to inculcate respectful engagement with 'all our relations' and demonstrated methods for tending the lands in which people have lived. It is also true of the European construction of indigenous 'others' as either 'noble savages' or 'ignoble savages' dwelling …
Guesthood as Ethical Decolonising Research Method
Debates about research methods have often been concerned with the situation of the researcher in relation to those they research among, about or "on." Reiterating the dualisms embedded in Western culture, many of these have privileged allegedly objective distance between researcher and researched, and worried about researchers "going native." This paper argues that researchers are always more than these dualities suggest, and that an acceptance a…
Endo-cannibalism in the making of a recent British ancestor
Following his death in 1975, the ashes of Wally Hope, founder of Stonehenge People's Free Festival, were scattered in the centre of Stonehenge. When a child tasted the ashes the rest of the group followed this lead. In the following decades, as the festival increasingly became the site of contest about British heritage and culture, the story of Wally's ashes was told at significant times. His name continues to be invoked at gatherings today. This…
Animals, Animists, and Academics
Animism is the label given to worldviews in which the world is understood to be a community of living persons, only some of whom are human. (An older use of the term to label a putative “belief in spirits” is less useful.) Animists inculcate locally meaningful means of communicating with other‐than‐human persons, especially in order to express respect. Ethnographic accounts of particular animist ways of engaging with animal persons are noted. I a…
Jordan Paper, The Deities are Many: A Polytheistic Theology
Jordan Paper, The Deities are Many: A Polytheistic Theology (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005), xiv + 155 pp., $49.50 (cloth), $14.95 (paper)
The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature
Andy Letcher, Shroom: A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom
Andy Letcher, Shroom: A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom (New York: Ecco, 2007), 384 pp. Pbk. $25.95, ISBN 0-06-082828-5
Capitalism and Christianity, American style
William E. Connolly, Durham, NC, Duke University Press, 2008, xvi +174 pp., US$21.95 (paperback), ISBN: 978-0-8223-4272-4 Connolly is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopk
The Handbook of Contemporary Animism
Handbook of Contemporary Animism
Whence “spirit possession”
Whose society, whose experience? A fundamental question for rethinking religion
In “Fundamental Social Motives and the Varieties of Religious Experience” Johnson, Li, and Cohen aim to “initiate a discussion about the ways in which religious beliefs, ritual practices, religious
Respectfully eating or not eating: Putting food at the centre of Religious Studies
With reference to data drawn from both ethnology and ethology, I argue that studying foodways does not merely add additional information about religions, but enables better understanding of religion. Rather than defining religion cognitively in relation to beliefs and believing (modernist tropes that have shaped the study of religion) I explore the effect of defining religion in relation to the questions, ‘what do you eat?’ and ‘with whom do you …
Religião e Comida, religião como regras para alimentação
Comida e tudo o que ela implica (de produção ao seu consumo) está ganhando uma crescente atenção nos estudos em religião. Isso nos permite alcançar um melhor entendimento das relações fluídicas entre a vida cotidiana e as formas rituais, regras e hierarquias. Este artigo busca demonstrar que há muito mais em jogo na pesquisa sobre religião e comida. Considerando-se a alimentação, nós não apenas adicionamos temperos em nosso trabalho. Teorização s…
If ‘Spiritual But Not Religious’ People Are Not Religious What Difference Do They Make
Modernity's project of secularisation may be challenged by the resurgence of religion in the public sphere (indicated most dramatically by religiously motivated conflicts but also in more everyday contexts). The rising profile of spirituality in healthcare and business training programmes may offer other challenges. Classically, spirituality has been differentiated from religion along seemingly Cartesian lines: the former being the fully interior…
Playing Croquet with Hedgehogs: (Still) Becoming a Scholar of Paganism and Animism
A reflection on the development of a career partly concerned with the study of Paganisms. After indicating some ways of using a quotation from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, the article considers the question of the subject matter of Pagan Studies. It connects contemporary Paganisms and other cultural phenomena (e.g. indigenous religions and animisms) and indicates the importance of respecting the hosts of our research. The second half of the …
Indigenising in a Globalised World
Being Indigenous seems, by definition, to be about belonging to a place. Sometimes it is even defined as belonging in specific places. Near synonyms like “native” and “aboriginal” can be used to locate people in relation to ancestral, pre-invasion / pre-colonial places. However, Indigenous peoples are no more enclosed by geography than other-than-indigenous peoples. Complex and extensive trade routes and migration patterns are important features …
Sociology (27 works) · Philosophy (26 works) · History (17 works) · Philosophy (13 works) · Religious studies (13 works) · Art (12 works) · History (11 works) · Indigenous (11 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (10 works) · Anthropology (10 works)