Dr Lynne Hume
Dr

Lynne Hume

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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

  • Anthropology of the senses

  • Anthropology, religion and spirituality

  • Shamanism

  • Aboriginal Australia

  • Consciousness studies

  • Ritual and spiritual practices cross-culturally

  • Trance and Esotericism

  • Anthropology methodology and fieldwork

  • Anthropology, religion and dress

  • Techniques for altering consciousness

  • New Religious Movements

  • Paganism and Neo-Paganism

  • Cross-cultural approaches to death and the afterlife

Search Professor Lynne Hume’s works on UQ eSpace

33 works between 1999 and 2022
All (33) Journal Article (9) Book Chapter (12) Book (8) Other Outputs (4)

21 - 33 of 33 works

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

Accessing the eternal: Dreaming "The Dreaming" and ceremonial performance

2004

Other Outputs

Australian Aboriginal Shamanism

Hume, L. L. (2004). Australian Aboriginal Shamanism.

Australian Aboriginal Shamanism

2004

Other Outputs

Jasmuheen and the Breatharians

Hume, L. L. (2004). Jasmuheen and the Breatharians.

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.

Introduction: Awkward Spaces, Productive Places

2004

Other Outputs

Doofs and Raves in Australia

Hume, L. L. (2004). Doofs and Raves in Australia.

Doofs and Raves in Australia

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.

Ancestral Power: the Dreaming, Consciousness and Aboriginal Australians

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.

Ancestral Power: The Dreaming, Consciousness and Aboriginal Australians

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.

New Religious Movements: current research in Australia

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.

The dreaming in contemporary aboriginal Australia

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

Nature Religion Today: Paganism in the Modern World

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

Exporting nature religions: Problems in praxis down under

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

On the unsafe side of the white divide: New perspectives on the Dreaming of Australian Aborigines

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.

Witches of the Southern Cross: The sacred place and sacred spaces of modern Australian witches

Availability

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