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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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2004
Journal Article
Accessing the eternal: Dreaming "The Dreaming" and ceremonial performance
Hume, Lynne (2004). Accessing the eternal: Dreaming "The Dreaming" and ceremonial performance. Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science, 39 (1), 237-258. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9744.2004.00568.x
2004
Other Outputs
Jasmuheen and the Breatharians
Hume, L. L. (2004). Jasmuheen and the Breatharians.
2004
Book Chapter
Introduction: Awkward Spaces, Productive Places
Hume, Lynne and Mulcock, Jane (2004). Introduction: Awkward Spaces, Productive Places. Anthropologists in the Field: Cases in Participant Observation. (pp. xi-xxvii) edited by Lynne Hume and Jane Mulcock. New York: Columbia University Press.
2004
Other Outputs
Doofs and Raves in Australia
Hume, L. L. (2004). Doofs and Raves in Australia.
2004
Other Outputs
Australian Aboriginal Shamanism
Hume, L. L. (2004). Australian Aboriginal Shamanism.
2002
Book
Ancestral Power: The Dreaming, Consciousness and Aboriginal Australians
Hume, L. L. (2002). Ancestral Power: The Dreaming, Consciousness and Aboriginal Australians. 1 ed. Australia: Melbourne University.
2002
Book
Ancestral Power: the Dreaming, Consciousness and Aboriginal Australians
Hume, Lynne (2002). Ancestral Power: the Dreaming, Consciousness and Aboriginal Australians. Carlton, Victoria, Australia: Melbourne University Press.
2000
Book Chapter
The dreaming in contemporary aboriginal Australia
Hume, L. L. (2000). The dreaming in contemporary aboriginal Australia. Indigenous Religions: A Companion. (pp. 125-138) edited by G. Harvey. London: Cassell.
2000
Journal Article
New Religious Movements: current research in Australia
Hume, Lynne (2000). New Religious Movements: current research in Australia. Australian Religion Studies Review, 13 (1), 27-39.
1999
Journal Article
Nature Religion Today: Paganism in the Modern World
Hume, Lynne (1999). Nature Religion Today: Paganism in the Modern World. Journal of Contemporary Religion, 14 (2), 315-317. doi: 10.1080/13537909908580869
1999
Journal Article
Exporting nature religions: Problems in praxis down under
Hume, Lynne (1999). Exporting nature religions: Problems in praxis down under. Nova Religio, 2 (2), 287-298. doi: 10.1525/nr.1999.2.2.287
1999
Journal Article
On the unsafe side of the white divide: New perspectives on the Dreaming of Australian Aborigines
Hume, Lynne (1999). On the unsafe side of the white divide: New perspectives on the Dreaming of Australian Aborigines. Anthropology of Consciousness, 10 (1), 1-15. doi: 10.1525/ac.1999.10.1.1
1999
Journal Article
Witches of the Southern Cross: The sacred place and sacred spaces of modern Australian witches
Hume, L. L. (1999). Witches of the Southern Cross: The sacred place and sacred spaces of modern Australian witches. Journal of Australian Studies, 62, 95-104.
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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