Conferences

Bibliography of Papers on Contemporary Pagan Studies
Presented at Academic Conferences


This is a listing of papers that deal with Contemporary Paganism that have been presented at academic conferences since 1992. It is being expanded and developed, so if you have any articles or books that you think shold be added, please email Cat@paganstudies.org. Gradually the papers will be divided into specific categories. For now they are all listed in alphabetic order by author's first name (a minor glitch I'll fix soon).

Presenter Year Title Conference
Barbara Jane Davy 2001 Definitions and Expressions of Nature Religion in Shamanic Traditions and Contemporary Paganism Canadian Society for the Study of Religion
Barbara Jane Davy 2000 Refining the Definition of'Nature Religion' in Relationship to Contemporary Shamanism and Paganism Nature Religion Scholars Network Meeting
Barbara Jane Davy 1999 The Meanings of Nature Nature Religion Scholars Network Meeting
Brett H. Lowry 2004 Rinse, Reuse, and Recycle: The Conflation of Material Culture in Prehistoric and Modern Religions Society of American Archaeology 69th Annual Meeting
Chas S. Clifton 2004 A Pipe of Oyntment: Re-considering the Witches' Flying Ointments Exploring Consciousness Conference
Chas S. Clifton 2002 The Playboy and the Witch Nature Religions Scholars Network
Chas S. Clifton 2000 Fort Hood's Wiccans and the Problem of Pacifism New Religious Movements Group,American Academy of Religion annual meeting
Chas S. Clifton 1999 Colorado Ogham: Exploiting an Archaeological Anomaly A Permeability of Boundaries: New Approaches to the Archaeology of Art, Religion, and Folklore
Chas S. Clifton 1998 Solanaceous plants and the Neopagan Revival Pagan Studies additional meeting. American Academy of Religion annual meeting
Constance Wise 2001 A Foucauldian Archaeology and Genealogy into the Discourse of Inclusive Language or Do You Have to Be Naked to be a Witch? AAR Regional Meeting
David C Waldron 2003 Witchcraft for Sale: Commodity vs Community in the neo-Pagan Movement The Australian Sociological Association
David C Waldron 2000 Post-Modern Historiography and the neo-Pagan movement in Australia The Australian Sociological Association
David C Waldron 2000 The Neo-Pagan Movement and the Challenge of Continental European scholarship The Australian Sociological Association
David C Waldron 1999 The Eco-Feminist Appropriation of the Burning Times Australian Anthropological Association Annual Conference
Helen Berger 2004 Ethics, Morals, and Teenage Witches Association for the Sociology of Religion
Helen Berger 2002 The Internet as Vitual Spiritual Community: Teen Witches in the United States and Australia Association for the Sociology of Religion
Helen Berger 2000 Minority Voices From the Pagan Census Association for the Sociology of Religion
Helen Berger 2000 Satan's Neighbors Oral History Conference
Helen Berger 1999 Homosexuality and Duality in Wiccan Rituals Association for the Sociology of Religion
Helen Berger 1999 The New Age vs. Neo-Paganism Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
Helen Berger 1999 Trespassing Boundaries: Conflict and Synchrony Among Three Religions Columbia University seminar on Content and Methods
Helen Berger 1998 Earth Goddess--Environmentalism and American Witchcraft Eastern Sociological Society Meeting
Helen Berger 1998 High Priestess: Mother, Teacher, Leader American Sociological Association
Helen Berger 1998 Witch Trials 1998 Association for the Sociology of Religion
Helen Berger 1997 Fundamentalists, Unitarian Universalists, and Witches Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
Helen Berger 1997 High Priestess--Leader, Teacher, Mother: Women's Leadership Roles in Wicca Eastern Sociological Society
Helen Berger 1997 The Earth Is Sacred: Ecological and Feminist Concerns in American Wicca Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
Helen Berger 1996 Magical Children: The Socialization of Children in Wicca Association for the Sociology of Religion
Helen Berger 1996 Men who Worship the Goddess and Feminist Thought Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
Helen Berger 1996 Perfect Love, Perfect Trust: The Coven as a Friendship Network The Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
Helen Berger 1996 The Neo-Pagan Census Eastern Sociological Society
Helen Berger 1995 Concepts of Self in Wicca Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
Helen Berger 1995 Witches: the Next Generation Eastern Sociological Society
Jenny Blain 2003 Heathenry, shamanism and the seeress: disputing the past, informing the present 4th ESRC Seminar in European Ethnology- From Vernacular Religion to Contemporary Spirituality: Locating Religion in European Ethnology
Jenny Blain 2003 Pagans, place and folklores of 'new indigeneity' 7th ESRC Research Seminar in European Ethnology
Jenny Blain 2003 Re-viewing the Past: Discourse and Power in Images of Prehistory Tourism and Photography: Still Visions - Changing Lives. Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change
Jenny Blain 2001 Sacred sites, contested rights: contemporary Pagan engagements with ancient sites and their implications for 'the condition of heritage' 4th Cambridge Heritage Seminar: 'The Condition of Heritage'
Jenny Blain 2001 Song, self and spirits: practitioner understandings of sound in neo-shamanisms 9th annual conference on Contemporary and New Age Religion
Jenny Blain 2001 The in/authentic seeress: magic, identity and the re-creation of ecstasy Annual British Association for the Study of Religion conference
Jenny Blain 2000 Magic, healing, or death? Issues of Seidr, 'balance', and morality in past and present New Approaches to Medical Archaeology and Anthropology
Jenny Blain 2000 Pagans, Politics and Postmodernism International Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference
Jenny Blain 2000 Spirits, Wights and Ancestors: Understandings of polytheism in reconstructed Northern religion Eighth Annual New Age and Contemporary Religions Conference
Jenny Blain 1999 Contested Meanings: Earth-religion Practitioners and the Everyday The Sacred and the Secular: Society for the Scientific Study of Religion conference
Jenny Blain 1999 On Shamans, Stones, and Appropriation: Contestations of Invention and Meaning Permeability of Boundaries conference
Jenny Blain 1999 On Shamans, Stones, Meaning and Appropriation: Shamans, Neoshamans, and Anthropologists Canadian Anthropology Society annual meeting
Jenny Blain 1999 Reinventing Wyrd: Seidhr as Urban Shamanism, a Millennium On Healing, homelessness and flexibility of self: American Anthropological Association conference
Jenny Blain 1999 Seidr, magic, and community: reinventing contested Northern shamanic practice Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness
Jenny Blain 1999 Speaking shamanistically: seidr, academia and rationality 'Going Native' conference
Jenny Blain 1999 Using narrative analysis to understand occupation, 'self', and everyday life Learning from our Roots: Atlantic Canada Occupational Therapists' conference
Jenny Blain 1998 Gender, seidhr and narrative Storied Lives - Lived Stories, Seventh International Conference on Narrative
Jenny Blain 1998 Seidhr as women's magic: Shamanism, journeying and healing in Norse Heathenism Canadian Anthropology Society
Jenny Blain 1998 Seidhr, Shamanism and Women's Magic: recovering a tradition of ambiguity Shamanism in contemporary society
Jenny Blain 1997 Constructing identity and divinity: Creating community in an Elder religion within a postmodern world Interdisciplinary Perspectives: Using Qualitative Methods to Study Social Life
Jenny Blain 1997 On the knife-edge: Seidr-working and the Anthropologist Re-Enchantments conference
Jenny Blain 1997 Presenting constructions of identity and divinity: Ásatrú and Oracular Seidhr CASCA Conference
Jenny Blain 1996 Constructing identity and divinity: Narratives of 'The old Gods' in a postmodern world Fifth Kentucky International Conference on Narrative
Jenny Blain 1996 Crafting Women's Religion: Discourse and Practice of Maritime Witches CSAA meeting
Jenny Blain 1996 Witchcraft, Magic and Religion: Some Discursive Reconstructions of Belief and Practice The Middle Ages in Contemporary Popular Culture
Jenny Blain and Robert Wallis 2004 Siting sacred heritage: contestations of place and field in Pagan interpretations of sacred sites Association of Social Anthropologists conference
Jenny Blain and Robert Wallis 2003 'Claiming our say': sacred sites and contested identities Annual Contemporary and New Age Religions Conference / Alternative Spiritualities and New Age Studies
Jenny Blain and Robert Wallis 2003 Sacred Sites, Contested Rights/Rites: Contemporary Pagan Engagements with the Past Theoretical Archaeological Group
Jenny Blain and Robert Wallis 2003 Sites, texts, contexts and inscriptions of meaning: investigating pagan 'authenticities' in a text-based society British Sociological Association Study Group on religion annual conference: Texts and Religions Contexts
Jenny Blain and Robert Wallis 2002 A living landscape? Pagans and archaeological discourse Landscapes and Seascapes conference
Jenny Blain and Robert Wallis 2002 Heritage, Paganisms and a climate of 'transparency': Autoarchaeological method and the Sacred Sites- Contested Rites/Rights Project 5th Cambrige Heritage Seminar: Making the Means Transparent
Jenny Blain and Robert Wallis 2002 Paganism and archaeology: irreconcilable? Conference on Archaeology in the Public Domain
Jenny Blain and Robert Wallis 2002 Sites, sacredness, and stories: Interactions of archaeology and contemporary Paganism The Folklore Society annual conference: Folklore and Archaeology
Jenny Blain and Robert Wallis 2001 Ritual reflections, practitioner meanings: 'performance' disputed Materialising religion: Expression, Performance and Ritual: BSA Study group on Religion conference
Jenny Blain & Robert Wallis 2001 Sacred Sites, Contested Rites/rights: Community and Diversity in Pagan Approaches to Archaeological Monuments British Association for the Study of Religions Annual Conference: Religion and Community
Jenny Blain & Robert Wallis 2000 Seidr, gender and transformation: from the sagas to the new millennium Viking Millennium International Symposium
Jenny Butler 2004 Neo-Paganism and the Domain of Alternative Healing in Contemporary Ireland ASANAS (Alternative Spiritualities and New Age Studies) Goes Mainstream?
Jenny Butler 2004 The Neo-Pagan Ritual Year The Ritual Year Conference
Jenny Butler 2003 Ireland's Neo-Pagan Community: Worldview and Ritual Alternative Spirituality and New Age Studies Conference
Jenny Butler 2003 Neo-Pagan Ritual Practice in Ireland as Cultural Process From Vernacular Religion to Contemporary Spirituality: Locating Religion in European Ethnology
Jenny Butler 2003 The Imaginaire of Neo-Pagan Discourse: Perceptions of Landscape Language, Literature and the Imaginaire
Jenny Butler 2002 Ireland's Sacred Landscape: Neo-Pagan Worldview and the Ritual Utilisation of Heritage Sites Ireland's Heritages: Critical Perspectives on Consumption, Method and Memory
Jenny Butler 2002 Irish Neo-Pagan Ritual Practice: Visual Representations of Culture and Creative Expressions of Identity Communicating Cultures" seminar
Ken Rees 1996 The Politics of Modern Paganism Nature Religion Today
Ken Rees 1994 The Tangled Skein Paganism Today conference
Peg Aloi 2003 Charming Spell: Intentional and Unintentional Effects of Media Upon Teenage Witchcraft Identities Annual Contemporary and New Age Religions Conference / Alternative Spiritualities and New Age Studies
Peg Aloi 2003 Smile o Voluptuous cool-Breath'd Earth': Coded and Explicit Eroticism in Contemporary Ritual 'Authorship' 'And Never Know the Joy': Sex and the Erotic in English Poetry: Leiden University, Holland
Peg Aloi 2002 Chipping Away at the Sacred: The Unintentional Damage to Standing Stones by Neo-Pagan Pilgrims Home Tour: Travel Writing in the UK and Ireland 1775 through 2000
Robert Wallis 2004 Contemporary Paganism and the Re-Presentation of the Past Art and Representation
Robert Wallis 2004 Shimmering Steel / Standing Stones: Reflections on the Intervention of Turning the World Inside Out (Anish Kapoor 1996CE) at the Rollright Stones Object - Excavation - Intervention: Dialogues Between Sculpture and Archaeology
Robert Wallis 2003 Pasts and pagan practices: moving beyond Stonehenge Theoretical Archaeological Group
Robert Wallis 2003 Shamans / neo-Shamans: Diversity of interpretation in the study of a 'new' 'alternative' spirituality 11th Annual Contemporary and New Age Religions Conference / Alternative Spiritualities and New Age Studies
Robert Wallis 2003 Sacred Sites, Contested Rites/Rights 7th ESRC Research Seminar in European Ethnology
Robert Wallis 2002 'Sacred' Sites / 'Archaeological' Sites: Contestations and Contexts of Ancient Places in Developments of Contemporary Paganisms Belief Beyond Boundaries - The Development of Paganism: History, Influences and Contexts 1880-2002
Robert Wallis 2001 Community and Individualism in Neo-shamanism British Association for the Study of Religions: Religion and Community
Robert Wallis 2001 Defining the 'sacred' site: neo-shamans, archaeological monuments and heritage management in England 4th Cambridge Heritage Seminar 'The Condition of Heritage'
Robert Wallis 2001 Permeating the Boundaries: Neo-shamans, Trance and Healing in the Modern West Medicine, Magic and Religion; Society for the Social History of Medicine Annual Conference
Robert Wallis 1999 Avebury's Neolithic Shamans, from Stone Age to Twenty-First Century European Association of Archaeologists
Robert Wallis 1999 Conflict and Reciprocity in the Cosmologies of Indigenous Shamans and Neo-Shamans Seventh Annual New and Contemporary Religions Conference
Robert Wallis 1998 Altered States, Conflicting Voices: Shamans, Neo-shamans and Academics Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness
Robert Wallis 1998 Drumming Home the Polemics of Neo-shamanism: Conflicting Views and Contested Monuments in south-west USA International Conference on Shamanism in Contemporary Society
Shelley Rabinovitch 2003 We're Not Them: Antipathy Between Modern Neo-Pagans and the New Age Alternative Spiritualities and New Age Studies Conference
Shelley Rabinovitch 2001 Continental Drift: Comparing American and British Variants of a Wiccan Religion Centre for Research on New Religions (CESNUR) 15th Annual Conference
Shelley Rabinovitch 2000 Cat Herding: Institutionalising Pagans in Canada Centre for Research on New Religions (CESNUR) 15th Annual Conference
Shelley Rabinovitch 1998 Which Witch is Which: The American Gardnerian Dilemma Contemporary Religious Movements Conference
Shelley Rabinovitch 1997 Witches Looking in the Mirror of Witchcraft Looking in the Mirror Of... Modern Neo- Pagan Imagery in the Popular Media Nature Religions in the UK Conference
Shelley Rabinovitch 1996 Heal the Universe, Heal the Self: Bateson's Double Bind and North American Wiccan Practice Nature Religion Today Conference
Shelley Rabinovitch 1996 Which Witch is Which: Recasting Historical Nightmares as Utopian Middle Ages in Popular Culture Conference
Shelley Rabinovitch 1992 Witches and Neo-Pagans in Atlantic Canada Religious Mosaic of Atlantic Canada Conference
Book Reviews
Links
Programs
Home
Home
About This Site Contact Us Copyright