Graham Harvey (religious studies scholar)
Graham Harvey (born 25 August 1959) is an English religious studies scholar. He specialises in modern Paganism, indigenous religions and animism. Life and work. Graham Harvey was born in 1959. He obtained a Ph.D. title at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1991 on a dissertation about group identity in ancient Jewish literature. From 1991 to 1995 he taught religious studies in Newcastle. From 1996 to 2003 he worked as reader and principal lecturer in religious studies at the King Alfred's College, Winchester. Since 2003 he works at the Open University where he  is a professor and was head of the religious studies department from 2013 to 2017. After being invited to do a presentation about contemporary druids, Harvey began to do fieldwork about modern Paganism which resulted in several books, notably "Listening People, Speaking Earth: Contemporary Paganism" (1997) and "Researching Paganisms" (2004). He has written extensively about indigenous religions and animism, producing the monograph "Animism: Respecting the Living World" (2005) and the edited volume "The Handbook of Contemporary Animism" (2013). In the monograph "Food, Sex & Strangers: Understanding Religion as Everyday Life" (2013) he seeks to define religion through people's behaviours and  everyday practices rather than belief. Harvey practices modern Paganism with druid orders and as animism with ecological activists. He is married and also participates in Jewish celebrations with his wife. Selected publications. Monographs Edited volumes