Conferences

Bibliography of Papers on Contemporary Pagan Studies
Presented at Academic Conferences


Total Papers Listed - 167
Presenter Paper Year Conference
Peg Aloi Charming Spell: Intentional and Unintentional Effects of Media Upon Teenage Witchcraft Identities 2003 Annual Contemporary and New Age Religions Conference / Alternative Spiritualities and New Age Studies
Peg Aloi Smile o Voluptuous cool-Breath’d Earth’: Coded and Explicit Eroticism in Contemporary Ritual ‘Authorship’ 2003 ‘And Never Know the Joy’: Sex and the Erotic in English Poetry,, Leiden University, Holland
Peg Aloi Chipping Away at the Sacred: The Unintentional Damage to Standing Stones by Neo-Pagan Pilgrims 2002 Home Tour: Travel Writing in the UK and Ireland 1775 through 2000
Helen Berger Ethics, Morals, and Teenage Witches 2004 Association for the Sociology of Religion
Helen Berger Minority Voices From the Pagan Census 2000 Association for the Sociology of Religion
Helen Berger Satan’s Neighbors 2000 Oral History Conference
Helen Berger Homosexuality and Duality in Wiccan Rituals 1999 Association for the Sociology of Religion
Helen Berger The New Age vs. Neo-Paganism 1999 Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
Helen Berger Trespassing Boundaries: Conflict and Synchrony Among Three Religions 1999 Columbia University seminar on Content and Methods
Helen Berger Earth Goddess--Environmentalism and American Witchcraft 1998 Eastern Sociological Society Meeting
Helen Berger High Priestess: Mother, Teacher, Leader 1998 American Sociological Association
Helen Berger Witch Trials 1998 1998 Association for the Sociology of Religion
Helen Berger Fundamentalists, Unitarian Universalists, and Witches 1997 Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
Helen Berger High Priestess--Leader, Teacher, Mother: Women's Leadership Roles in Wicca 1997 Eastern Sociological Society
Helen Berger The Earth Is Sacred: Ecological and Feminist Concerns in American Wicca 1997 Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
Helen Berger Magical Children: The Socialization of Children in Wicca 1996 Association for the Sociology of Religion
Helen Berger Men who Worship the Goddess and Feminist Thought 1996 Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
Helen Berger Perfect Love, Perfect Trust: The Coven as a Friendship Network 1996 The Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
Helen Berger The Neo-Pagan Census 1996 Eastern Sociological Society
Helen Berger Concepts of Self in Wicca 1995 Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
Helen Berger Witches: the Next Generation 1995 Eastern Sociological Society
Helen Berger & Doug Ezzy The Internet as Vitual Spiritual Community: Teen Witches in the United States and Australia 2002 Association for the Sociology of Religion
Jenny Blain Heathenry, shamanism and the seeress: disputing the past, informing the present 2003 4th ESRC Seminar in European Ethnology, From Vernacular Religion to Contemporary Spirituality: Locating Religion in European Ethnology
Jenny Blain Pagans, place and folklores of 'new indigeneity' 2003 7th ESRC Research Seminar in European Ethnology
Jenny Blain Re-viewing the Past: Discourse and Power in Images of Prehistory 2003 Tourism and Photography: Still Visions – Changing Lives. Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change
Jenny Blain Sacred sites, contested rights: contemporary Pagan engagements with ancient sites and their implications for 'the condition of heritage' 2001 4th Cambridge Heritage Seminar: 'The Condition of Heritage'
Jenny Blain Song, self and spirits: practitioner understandings of sound in neo-shamanisms 2001 9th annual conference on Contemporary and New Age Religion
Jenny Blain The in/authentic seeress: magic, identity and the re-creation of ecstasy 2001 Annual British Association for the Study of Religion conference
Jenny Blain Magic, healing, or death? Issues of Seidr, 'balance', and morality in past and present 2000 New Approaches to Medical Archaeology and Anthropology
Jenny Blain Pagans, Politics and Postmodernism 2000 International Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference
Jenny Blain Spirits, Wights and Ancestors: Understandings of polytheism in reconstructed Northern religion 2000 Eighth Annual New Age and Contemporary Religions Conference
Jenny Blain Contested Meanings: Earth-religion Practitioners and the Everyday 1999 The Sacred and the Secular: Society for the Scientific Study of Religion conference
Jenny Blain On Shamans, Stones, and Appropriation: Contestations of Invention and Meaning 1999 Permeability of Boundaries conference
Jenny Blain On Shamans, Stones, Meaning and Appropriation 1999 Shamans, Neoshamans, and Anthropologists: Canadian Anthropology Society annual meeting
Jenny Blain Reinventing Wyrd: Seidhr as Urban Shamanism, a Millennium On 1999 Healing, homelessness and flexibility of self, American Anthropological Association conference
Jenny Blain Seidr, magic, and community: reinventing contested Northern shamanic practice 1999 Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness
Jenny Blain Speaking shamanistically: seidr, academia and rationality 1999 'Going Native' conference
Jenny Blain Using narrative analysis to understand occupation, 'self', and everyday life 1999 Learning from our Roots: Atlantic Canada Occupational Therapists' conference
Jenny Blain Gender, seidhr and narrative 1998 Storied Lives - Lived Stories, Seventh International Conference on Narrative
Jenny Blain Seidhr as women's magic: Shamanism, journeying and healing in Norse Heathenism 1998 Canadian Anthropology Society
Jenny Blain Seidhr, Shamanism and Women's Magic: recovering a tradition of ambiguity 1998 Shamanism in contemporary society
Jenny Blain Constructing identity and divinity: Creating community in an Elder religion within a postmodern world 1997 Interdisciplinary Perspectives: Using Qualitative Methods to Study Social Life
Jenny Blain On the knife-edge: Seidr-working and the Anthropologist 1997 Re-Enchantments conference
Jenny Blain Presenting constructions of identity and divinity: Ásatrú and Oracular Seidhr 1997 CASCA Conference
Jenny Blain Constructing identity and divinity: Narratives of 'The old Gods' in a postmodern world 1996 Fifth Kentucky International Conference on Narrative
Jenny Blain Crafting Women's Religion: Discourse and Practice of Maritime Witches 1996 CSAA meeting
Jenny Blain Witchcraft, Magic and Religion: Some Discursive Reconstructions of Belief and Practice 1996 The Middle Ages in Contemporary Popular Culture
Jenny Blain & Robert Wallis Siting sacred heritage: contestations of place and field in Pagan interpretations of sacred sites 2004 Association of Social Anthropologists conference
Jenny Blain & Robert Wallis 'Claiming our say': sacred sites and contested identities 2003 Annual Contemporary and New Age Religions Conference / Alternative Spiritualities and New Age Studies
Jenny Blain & Robert Wallis Sacred Sites, Contested Rights/Rites: Contemporary Pagan Engagements with the Past 2003 Theoretical Archaeological Group
Jenny Blain & Robert Wallis Sites, texts, contexts and inscriptions of meaning: investigating pagan 'authenticities' in a text-based society 2003 British Sociological Association Study Group on religion annual conference, Texts and Religions Contexts
Jenny Blain & Robert Wallis A living landscape? Pagans and archaeological discourse 2002 Landscapes and Seascapes conference,
Jenny Blain & Robert Wallis Heritage, Paganisms and a climate of ‘transparency’: Autoarchaeological method and the Sacred Sites, Contested Rites/Rights Project 2002 5th Cambrige Heritage Seminar, Making the Means Transparent
Jenny Blain & Robert Wallis Paganism and archaeology: irreconcilable? 2002 Conference on Archaeology in the Public Domain
Jenny Blain & Robert Wallis Sites, sacredness, and stories: Interactions of archaeology and contemporary Paganism 2002 The Folklore Society annual conference: Folklore and Archaeology
Jenny Blain & Robert Wallis Ritual reflections, practitioner meanings: 'performance' disputed 2001 Materialising religion: Expression, Performance and Ritual, BSA Study group on Religion conference
Jenny Blain & Robert Wallis Sacred Sites, Contested Rites/rights: Community and Diversity in Pagan Approaches to Archaeological Monuments 2001 British Association for the Study of Religions Annual Conference: Religion and Community
Jenny Blain & Robert Wallis Seidr, gender and transformation: from the sagas to the new millennium 2000 Viking Millennium International Symposium
Jenny Butler Neo-Paganism and the Domain of Alternative Healing in Contemporary Ireland 2004 ASANAS (Alternative Spiritualities and New Age Studies) Goes Mainstream?
Jenny Butler The Neo-Pagan Ritual Year 2004 The Ritual Year Conference
Jenny Butler Ireland’s Neo-Pagan Community: Worldview and Ritual 2003 Alternative Spirituality and New Age Studies Conference
Jenny Butler Neo-Pagan Ritual Practice in Ireland as Cultural Process 2003 From Vernacular Religion to Contemporary Spirituality: Locating Religion in European Ethnology
Jenny Butler The Imaginaire of Neo-Pagan Discourse: Perceptions of Landscape 2003 Language, Literature and the Imaginaire
Jenny Butler Ireland’s Sacred Landscape: Neo-Pagan Worldview and the Ritual Utilisation of Heritage Sites 2002 Ireland’s Heritages: Critical Perspectives on Consumption, Method and Memory
Jenny Butler Irish Neo-Pagan Ritual Practice: Visual Representations of Culture and Creative Expressions of Identity 2002 Communicating Cultures” seminar
Christopher W. Chase Cultural Politics in Contemporary Pagan Music 2004 Shaking Hands and Kissing Babies: Campaigns and Elections in
Christopher W. Chase Pagans in the Public Sphere: Politics, Religion 2005 Midwest AAR Regional Conference
Christopher W. Chase Quit the Night and Seek the Day": A Hermeneutic 2000 Western AAR
Christopher W. Chase Multivalent Macumba: Cannibalism, Modernismo, and Psychopomposity in Literature and Film 2006 2006 Conference of the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association
Chas S. Clifton A Pipe of Oyntment: Re-considering the Witches’ Flying Ointments 2004 Exploring Consciousness Conference
Chas S. Clifton The Playboy and the Witch 2002 Nature Religions Scholars Network
Chas S. Clifton Fort Hood’s Wiccans and the Problem of Pacifism 2000 New Religious Movements Group, American Academy of Religion annual meeting
Chas S. Clifton Colorado Ogham: Exploiting an Archaeological Anomaly 1999 A Permeability of Boundaries: New Approaches to the Archaeology of Art, Religion, and Folklore
Chas S. Clifton Solanaceous plants and the Neopagan Revival 1998 Pagan Studies additional meeting. American Academy of Religion annual meeting
Barbara Jane Davy Definitions and Expressions of Nature Religion in Shamanic Traditions and Contemporary Paganism 2001 Canadian Society for the Study of Religion
Barbara Jane Davy Refining the Definition of  ‘Nature Religion’ in Relationship to Contemporary Shamanism and Paganism 2000 Nature Religion Scholars Network Meeting
Barbara Jane Davy The Meanings of Nature 1999 Nature Religion Scholars Network Meeting
Pam A Detrixhe WordCrafting at the Gates of Bureaucracy: Coercion, Creativity, and Public Construction of Identity 2000 American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting
Doug Ezzy Popular spell books and the reenchantment of everyday life 2003 Alternative Spiritualities and New Age Studes Conference
Doug Ezzy Postmodern Spiritualities: Witches and Evangelists in Popular Culture 2002 International Sociological Assocation Conference
Doug Ezzy White Witches and Black Magic 2002 Religion and Literature Assocation Conference
Doug Ezzy Participant Observation among Witches: An hermeneutics of ethnographic method 2001 British Sociological Assocation's Sociology of Religion Study Group Conference
Doug Ezzy The Commodification of Witchcraft 2001 INFORM Conference
Mandy Furney Urban Paganism: Envisioning the City as Sacred Space 2004 Canadian Society for the Study of Religion
Mandy Furney Creative Formations: Pagans and the Electronic Frontier 2003 Canadian Society for the Study of Religion
Wendy Griffin City Witches, Romantic Greens, and Nature Mystics: Goddess Women and Nature 2003 Conference on Contemporary Pagan Studies
Wendy Griffin Witches On-line: The creation of a virtual spiritual community 2001 Association for the Sociology of Religion
Wendy Griffin Bridging the Worlds: The Reinvention of Celtic Spirituality 2000 Association for the Sociology of Religion
Wendy Griffin Beating the Beltane Blues: Revisioning and Reclaiming Sexuality 1999 Association for the Sociology of Religion
Wendy Griffin Crafting the Boundaries: Goddess Narrative as Incantation 1998 Association for the Sociology of Religion
Wendy Griffin Diana's Daughters: Postmodern Priestessing in America 1997 The Ambivalent Goddess Conference
Wendy Griffin Webs of Women 1997 Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
Wendy Griffin Heratics 1996 Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
Wendy Griffin Inside the Vessel 1995 Pacific SW Women's Studies Association
Wendy Griffin The Hand that Stirs the Cauldron 1995 Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
Wendy Griffin Dancing with Pythons: An Ethnographic Study of Priestesses-in-Training 1994 Association for the Sociology of Religion
Wendy Griffin & Tanice G. Foltz She Changes Everything She Touches: Ethnographic Journeys of Self Discovery 1995 Association for the Sociology of Religion
Adrian Harris Bodies of Resistance: Eco-Paganism in the protest movement 2004 Society for European Philosophy Conference
Adrian Harris Goddess Consciousness: Dimensions of Sex, Ecology & the Sacred 1995 Nature Religion Today
Adrian Harris Sacred Ecology 1994 Paganism in Contemporary Britain
Ieuan Jones Modern Pagans: Postmodern Pioneers? 2004 Outsiders' Conference, University of Stirling
Ieuan Jones The Marsden Imbolc Festival: A Case of Civic Paganism? 2004 Alternative Spiritualities and New Age Studes Conference
Ieuan Jones & Tom Hope Locating British Paganism as Late Modern Culture 2003 Alternative Spiritualities and New Age Studes Conference
Chris Klassen Mother Goddess Imagery in Feminist Witchcraft 2004 Canadian Society for the Study of Religion
Chris Klassen Feminist Witchcraft as a Postcolonial Movement? Exploring Metaphors for Understanding Goddess Pre-history 2003 Canadian Society for the Study of Religion
Chris Klassen The Colonial Mythology of Feminist Witches 2003 Conference of Contemporary Pagan Studies
Chris Klassen The Infertile Goddess: Challenging Maternal Imagery in Feminist Witchcraft 2003 Mothering, Religion and Spirituality - the Association for Research on Mothering
Chris Klassen The Patriarchal Invaders: Themes of Colonization, Victimization and Oppression in Feminist Witchcraft 2003 Centre for the Study of Religion Graduate Symposium
Chris Klassen “‘Yes, I Know That I’m Making It Up As I Go Along’: Speculative Ritualizing and Feminist Witchcraft 2002 Re-Figuring Religion, Re-entering Spirituality - York University Graduate Women’s Studies Programme
Chris Klassen Crafting the Imagination: Feminist Witchcraft as a Speculative Movement 2002 Canadian Society for the Study of Religion and the Canadian Women’s Studies Association
Chris Klassen Sacred Stories: Speculative Fiction Shaping Feminist Witchcraft 2002 American Academy of Religion Eastern International Region
Chris Klassen ‘What do you have to do, to lay your mother to rest’: Reconciling Human Mothers and Goddess Mothers in Starhawk’s Fiction 2001 Mothering, Literature, Popular Culture and the Arts Conference
Chris Klassen Cybercoven: Being a Witch Online 2001 American Academy of Religion, Eastern International Regional meeting
Chris Klassen My Mother, My Lover: How Goddess Imagery Can Disrupt Conventional Sexuality 2001 Mothering, Sex and Sexuality Conference
Chris Klassen Popular Culture and Spirituality: Reading Practical Magic Through Witches’ Eyes 2001 Understanding Popular Culture: Feminist Interpretations and Constructions - York University Graduate Women’s Studies Programme
Chris Klassen Practical Magic: Representations of Witchcraft and Women’s Power in Popular Culture” 2001 Canadian Society for the Study of Religion
Chris Klassen How Women Are Defined (By the Goddess?): A Re-examination of Carol Christ’s Reflections 2000 American Academy of Religion Eastern International Regional meeting
Chris Klassen Maiden, Mother and Crone: An Integration of the Sacred and the Profane in Embodied Time 1999 American Academy of Religion Eastern International Regional meeting
Chris Klassen Postcolonial Possibilities: Border Crossings in Starhawk’s The Fifth Sacred Thing 1999 Canadian Society for the Study of Religion
Brett H. Lowry Rinse, Reuse, and Recycle: The Conflation of Material Culture in Prehistoric and Modern Religions 2004 Society of American Archaeology 69th Annual Meeting
Regina Smith Oboler If the Earth is Our Mother, Are We Taking Care of Her?  Environmental Attitudes and Actions of Contemporary Pagans 2003 Annual Meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society
Regina Smith Oboler Nature Religion as a Cultural System? Sources of Environmentalist Action and Rhetoric in a Contemporary Pagan Community 2003 Conference on Contemporary Pagan Studies
Regina Smith Oboler Why Men Need the Goddess, Too:  Insights from Interviews with Contemporary Male Neo-Pagans 2001 Annual Meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society
Grant Potts Paganism, Imagination, and Nature: The Question of Universality 2003 Conference on Contemporary Pagan Studies
Grant Potts Explicators of Gaia: Lovelock, Primavesi, Zell 2001 Nature Religions Scholars Network
Grant Potts Ensorcelled Confusion: Magic as a Slippery Category in The Understanding of Culture 1999 Western Regional Conference of the American Academy of Religion
Shelley Rabinovitch We're Not Them: Antipathy Between Modern Neo-Pagans and the New Age 2003 Alternative Spiritualities and New Age Studies Conference
Shelley Rabinovitch Continental Drift: Comparing American and British Variants of a Wiccan Religion 2001 Centre for Research on New Religions (CESNUR) 15th Annual Conference
Shelley Rabinovitch Cat Herding: Institutionalising Pagans in Canada 2000 Centre for Research on New Religions (CESNUR) 15th Annual Conference
Shelley Rabinovitch Which Witch is Which: The American Gardnerian Dilemma 1998 Contemporary Religious Movements Conference
Shelley Rabinovitch Witches Looking in the Mirror of Witchcraft Looking in the Mirror Of... Modern Neo- Pagan Imagery in the Popular Media 1997 Nature Religions in the UK Conference
Shelley Rabinovitch Heal the Universe, Heal the Self: Bateson's Double Bind and North American Wiccan Practice 1996 Nature Religion Today Conference
Shelley Rabinovitch Which Witch is Which: Recasting Historical Nightmares as Utopian 1996 Middle Ages in Popular Culture Conference
Shelley Rabinovitch Witches and Neo-Pagans in Atlantic Canada 1992 Religious Mosaic of Atlantic Canada Conference
Ken Rees The Politics of Modern Paganism 1996 Nature Religion Today
Ken Rees The Tangled Skein 1994 Paganism Today conference
Sian Reid Renovating the Broom Closet: Factors Contributing to the Growth of Neopaganism in Canada 2002 Nature Religions Scholars Network
Sian Reid Two Souls in One Body: Ethical and Methodological Implications of Studying What You Know 2001 Qualitative Analysis Conference
Sian Reid The Same and Different: Neopagans Talk about Religion 2000 Qualitative Analysis Conference
Sian Reid Witch Wars: Factors Contributing to Conflict Within Canadian Neopagan Communities 1999 Qualitative Analysis Conference
Sian Reid Illegitimate Religion: Neo-pagan Witchcraft and the Institutional Sanction of Religion in Canada 1994 American Academy of Religion Annual General Meeting
Sian Reid The Structure of Privilege: An Analysis of the Institutional Sanction of Religion in Canada 1994 Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association
Sian Reid As I Do Will, So Mote It Be:  Magic as Metaphor in Neopagan Witchcraft 1993 American Academy of Religion Annual General Meeting
David C Waldron Witchcraft for Sale: Commodity vs Community in the neo-Pagan Movement 2003 The Australian Sociological Association
David C Waldron Post-Modern Historiography and the neo-Pagan movement in Australia 2000 The Australian Sociological Association
David C Waldron The neo-Pagan Movement and the Challenge of Continental European scholarship 2000 The Australian Sociological Association
David C Waldron The Eco-Feminist Appropriation of the Burning Times 1999 Australian Anthropological Association Annual Conference
Robert Wallis Contemporary Paganism and the Re-Presentation of the Past 2004 Art and Representation
Robert Wallis Shimmering Steel / Standing Stones: Reflections on the Intervention of Turning the World Inside Out (Anish Kapoor 1996CE) at the Rollright Stones 2004 Object – Excavation – Intervention: Dialogues Between Sculpture and Archaeology
Robert Wallis Pasts and pagan practices: moving beyond Stonehenge 2003 Theoretical Archaeological Group
Robert Wallis Shamans / neo-Shamans: Diversity of interpretation in the study of a ‘new’ ‘alternative’ spirituality 2003 11th Annual Contemporary and New Age Religions Conference / Alternative Spiritualities and New Age Studies
Robert Wallis Sites, Contested Rites/Rights 2003 7th ESRC Research Seminar in European Ethnology
Robert Wallis 'Sacred' Sites / 'Archaeological' Sites: Contestations and Contexts of Ancient Places in Developments of Contemporary Paganisms 2002 Belief Beyond Boundaries - The Development of Paganism: History, Influences and Contexts 1880-2002
Robert Wallis Community and Individualism in Neo-shamanism 2001 British Association for the Study of Religions: Religion and Community
Robert Wallis Defining the ‘sacred’ site: neo-shamans, archaeological monuments and heritage management in England 2001 4th Cambridge Heritage Seminar ‘The Condition of Heritage’.
Robert Wallis Permeating the Boundaries: Neo-shamans, Trance and Healing in the Modern West 2001 . Medicine, Magic and Religion; Society for the Social History of Medicine Annual Conference.
Robert Wallis Avebury’s Neolithic Shamans, from Stone Age to Twenty-First Century 1999 European Association of Archaeologists
Robert Wallis Conflict and Reciprocity in the Cosmologies of Indigenous Shamans and Neo-Shamans 1999 Seventh Annual New and Contemporary Religions Conference
Robert Wallis Altered States, Conflicting Voices: Shamans, Neo-shamans and Academics 1998 Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness
Robert Wallis Drumming Home the Polemics of Neo-shamanism: Conflicting Views and Contested Monuments in south-west USA 1998 International Conference on Shamanism in Contemporary Society
Jason Winslade When the Veils are Thin: Performance Genealogies and Situational Tactics in a Chicago Samhain Ceremony 1997 Conference on Festival and Ritual Display
Jason Winslade Wiccan Performativity: Identity and Magickal Empowerment in the History and Practice of 1998 Association for Theatre in Higher Education
Jason Winslade Teen Witches, Wiccans, and ‘Wanna(Blessed)Bes’: Negotiating Witchcraft on Popular Television 2000 Panel for Religion and Popular Culture, Mid-Atlantic American Culture/Popular Culture Association
Jason Winslade Path of the Neophyte: Ethnography in a Magickal Community 2003 Association for Theatre in Higher Education
Jason Winslade It’s Inside You, This Magic’: Magickal Embodiment and Occult Ethics in the Buffyverse 2004 The Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Jason Winslade Occult Altar/Natives: Mad Mad House, Reality TV and Performance Initiations 2006 Charming and Crafty Conference (Occultism and Popular Culture),
Constance Wise A Foucauldian Archaeology and Genealogy into the Discourse of Inclusive Language, or Do You Have to Be Naked to be a Witch? 2001 AAR Regional Meeting
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