Overview
Background
Associate Professor Hume’s current research interests include: Anthropology and the Senses; religion and dress; consciousness studies; autoethnography; convict women in Tasmania in the 1830s.
Associate Professor Hume holds the following qualifications: B.A., M.A. (Calgary), Ph.D. (Queensland) and is currently an Honorary Associate Professor in Studies in Religion.
She has taught in the areas of Anthropology of Religion: New Religious Movements, Aboriginal Religions, Women and Religion, Religion and the Body, and Alternative Spirituality.
She is on the editorial board of the following international journals: Journal of Contemporary Religion; Fieldwork in Religion; Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions; Australian Religion Studies Review.
In 2004, Associate Professor Hume co-edited (with Jane Mulcock) 'Anthropologists in the Field: Cases in Participant Observation'. New York: Columbia University Press.
Availability
- Dr Lynne Hume is:
- Available for supervision
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Arts, University of Calgary
- Masters (Coursework), University of Calgary
- Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland
Research interests
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Anthropology of the senses
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Anthropology, religion and spirituality
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Shamanism
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Aboriginal Australia
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Consciousness studies
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Ritual and spiritual practices cross-culturally
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Trance and Esotericism
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Anthropology methodology and fieldwork
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Anthropology, religion and dress
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Techniques for altering consciousness
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New Religious Movements
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Paganism and Neo-Paganism
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Cross-cultural approaches to death and the afterlife
Works
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2022
Book Chapter
Spiritual Black
Hume, Lynne (2022). Spiritual Black. Little black dress: a radical fashion. edited by Georgina Ripley. Edinburgh: National Museums of Scotland Enterprises Publishing.
2021
Book Chapter
Dress and anthropology
Hume, Lynne (2021). Dress and anthropology. Dress in Mediterranean antiquity: Greeks, Romans, Jews, Christians. (pp. 27-39) edited by Alicia J. Batten and Kelly Olsen. London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury. doi: 10.5040/9780567684677.ch-004
2020
Book Chapter
Dress and Religion
Hume, Lynne (2020). Dress and Religion. Bloomsbury fashion central. (pp. 1-4) London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Fashion Central. doi: 10.5040/9781474280655-BG006
2019
Journal Article
Anthropology and religion studies: A personal and academic symbiosis
Hume, Lynne (2019). Anthropology and religion studies: A personal and academic symbiosis. Journal for the Academic Study of Religion, 32 (2-3), 166-181. doi: 10.1558/jasr.39604
2018
Other Outputs
Strumpets of the worst kind
Hume, Lynne (2018). Strumpets of the worst kind. Brisbane, Australia: Boolarong Press.
2018
Book Chapter
Religious Dress
Hume, Lynne (2018). Religious Dress. The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology. edited by Hilary Callan. New York, United States: John Wiley and Sons. doi: 10.1002/9781118924396.wbiea2406
2013
Book
The religious life of dress: global fashion and faith
Hume, Lynne (2013). The religious life of dress: global fashion and faith. London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Academic.
2013
Book
The varieties of magical experience: indigenous, medieval, and modern magic
Hume, Lynne and Drury, Nevill (2013). The varieties of magical experience: indigenous, medieval, and modern magic. Santa Barbara, CA, United States: ABC-CLIO.
2012
Book Chapter
Lifting the veil: an emic approach to magical practice
Hume, Lynne (2012). Lifting the veil: an emic approach to magical practice. Pathways in modern western magic. (pp. 19-36) edited by Nevill Drury. Richmond, CA, United States: Concrescent Scholars.
2011
Book
Can yu guan cha zhong de an li fen xi
Hume, Lynne and Mulcock, Jane (2011). Can yu guan cha zhong de an li fen xi. Shanghai, China: Harvard-Fudan Contemporary Anthropology and Shanghai Translation Publishing House.
2011
Book
Ancestral power: The Dreaming, consciousness and Australian Aborigines
Hume, Lynne (2011). Ancestral power: The Dreaming, consciousness and Australian Aborigines. Melbourne, Australia: Melbourne University Press.
2010
Book Chapter
Dress and religious practices
Hume, Lynne (2010). Dress and religious practices. Encyclopedia of world dress and fashion. (pp. 77-84) edited by Joanne Bubolz Eicher. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
2010
Book Chapter
Ceremonial and religious dress in Australia
Hume, Lynne (2010). Ceremonial and religious dress in Australia. Encyclopedia of world dress and fashion. (pp. 189-194) edited by Joanne Bubolz Eicher. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
2009
Book Chapter
Indigenous traditions of Oceania and Australasia
Hume, Lynne (2009). Indigenous traditions of Oceania and Australasia. The world's religions : Continuities and transformations. (pp. 290-291) edited by Peter B. Clarke and Peter Beyer. London, England, U.K.: Routledge.
2007
Journal Article
The anthropology of emerging religions
Hume, Lynne (2007). The anthropology of emerging religions. Nueva Anthropologia, 20 (67), 119-140.
2007
Journal Article
Creation and innovation in Australian Paganism
Hume, Lynne (2007). Creation and innovation in Australian Paganism. Australian Religion Studies Review, 20 (1), 45-58.
2007
Book
Portals: Opening Doorways To Other Realities Through The Senses
Hume, L. L. (2007). Portals: Opening Doorways To Other Realities Through The Senses. Oxford, UK: Berg.
2006
Book Chapter
Liminal being and the undead: Vampires in the 21st century
Hume, L. L. (2006). Liminal being and the undead: Vampires in the 21st century. Popular Spiritualities: The politics of contemporary enchantment. (pp. 3-16) edited by L. Hume and K. McPhillips. England: Ashgate Publishing Limited.
2006
Book Chapter
Introduction
Hume, L L (2006). Introduction. Popular Spiritualities: The politics of contemporary enchantment. (pp. ix-xxii) edited by L Hume and K McPhillips. England: Ashgate Publishing Limited.
2006
Book
Popular Spiritualities: The politics of contemporary enchantment
Lynne L. Hume and Kathleen McPhillips eds. (2006). Popular Spiritualities: The politics of contemporary enchantment. Aldershot, United Kingdom: Ashgate. doi: 10.4324/9781315246413
Supervision
Availability
- Dr Lynne Hume is:
- Available for supervision
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Supervision history
Completed supervision
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2010
Doctor Philosophy
Accommodating the Discarnate: Spirit houses in contemporary urban Thailand.
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Emeritus Professor Philip Almond
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2010
Doctor Philosophy
Fantasy and Belief: Fiction and Media as conjunct locales for metaphysical questing and spiritual understanding
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Emeritus Professor Philip Almond
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2006
Doctor Philosophy
VAPOURS AND VISIONS: RELIGIOUS DIMENSIONS OF DMT USE
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Richard Hutch
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2005
Doctor Philosophy
THE KABALARIAN PHILOSOPHY: Charismatic Control and Sexual Convictions
Principal Advisor
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Doctor Philosophy
EXPLORATION AND ANALYSIS OF THE DYNAMICS OF DEVELOPMENT OF THE SUFI MOVEMENT IN AUSTRALIA FOCUSING ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL TEACHER AND THE DISCIPLE
Principal Advisor
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2007
Doctor Philosophy
RHETORIC AND ACTION: THE POLICIES AND ATTITUDES OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH WITH REGARD TO AUSTRALIA'S INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, 1885-1967
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Richard Hutch
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2006
Doctor Philosophy
THE UNDEAD: AN UNNATURAL HISTORY OF VAMPIRES AND TROUBLESOME CORPSES IN EUROPE FROM THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Emeritus Professor Philip Almond
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2012
Doctor Philosophy
Fixing and Healing: Vodou and Social Change in New Orleans
Joint Principal Advisor
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