Associate Professor Lynne Hume
Honorary Research Associate Professor in Religious Studies
Researcher biography
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.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3813-6590
Web of Science Researcher ID: L-4462-2019
Books
Hume, Lynne (2018). Strumpets of the worst kind. Brisbane, Australia: Boolarong Press.
Hume, Lynne (2013). The religious life of dress: global fashion and faith. London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Academic.
Hume, Lynne and Drury, Nevill (2013). The varieties of magical experience: indigenous, medieval, and modern magic. Santa Barbara, CA, United States: ABC-CLIO.
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.
Hume, Lynne (2011). Ancestral power: The Dreaming, consciousness and Australian Aborigines. Melbourne, Australia: Melbourne University Press.
Hume, L. L. (2007). Portals: Opening Doorways To Other Realities Through The Senses. Oxford, UK: Berg.
Hume, L. L. (2002). Ancestral Power: The Dreaming, Consciousness and Aboriginal Australians. 1 ed. Australia: Melbourne University.
Hume, Lynne (2002). Ancestral Power: the Dreaming, Consciousness and Aboriginal Australians. Carlton, Victoria, Australia: Melbourne University Press.
Book Chapters
Hume, Lynne (2022). Spiritual Black. Little black dress: a radical fashion. edited by Georgina Ripley. Edinburgh: National Museums of Scotland Enterprises Publishing.
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
Hume, Lynne (2020). Dress and Religion. Bloomsbury fashion central. (pp. 1-4) London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Fashion Central. doi: 10.5040/9781474280655-BG006
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Hume, L. L. (2000). The dreaming in contemporary aboriginal Australia. Indigenous Religions: A Companion. (pp. 125-138) edited by G. Harvey. London: Cassell.
Journal Articles
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
Hume, Lynne (2007). The anthropology of emerging religions. Nueva Anthropologia, 20 (67), 119-140.
Hume, Lynne (2007). Creation and innovation in Australian Paganism. Australian Religion Studies Review, 20 (1), 45-58.
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
Hume, Lynne (2000). New Religious Movements: current research in Australia. Australian Religion Studies Review, 13 (1), 27-39.
Hume, Lynne (1999). Nature Religion Today: Paganism in the Modern World. Journal of Contemporary Religion, 14 (2), 315-317. doi: 10.1080/13537909908580869
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
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
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.
Reference Entries
Hume, L. L. (2004). Doofs and Raves in Australia.