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Marion Bowman (born 1955) is a British academic working on the borders of religious studies and folklore and ethnology. She is Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies, The Open University.[1]

Bowman is a long-standing researcher into New Age and alternative spiritualities.[2] Her research focus is predominantly contemporary spirituality in the UK and Europe, particularly "the practices and beliefs of individuals both within and on the margins of institutional religion".[3]

Education[edit]

Bowman began her university education at Glasgow University but moved to Lancaster University to study under Prof Ninian Smart.[2]

Bowman completed her MA in Folklore at Memorial University, Newfoundland: her dissertation was on devotion to St Gerard Majella in Newfoundland.[4] She completed her PhD at the University of Glamorgan in 1998 on 'Vernacular Religion and Contemporary Spirituality: Studies in Religious Experience and Expression'.[5]

Career[edit]

From 1990 to 2000 Bowman was based at Bath Spa University in the department of Study of Religions.[1]

In 2000 Bowman joined the Religious Studies department at The Open University. She was Head of Department between 2010 and 2013.[1]

Bowman has carried out a long term study of Glastonbury, seeing it as a sight of "significant pilgrimage destination and microcosm of contemporary spirituality and vernacular religiosity".[6]

Bowman is a member of the Steering Committee of the Baron Thyssen Centre for the Study of Ancient Material Religion, based in the Classical Studies Department at the Open University.[7] She was also a Co-Investigator on the Arts Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded project Pilgrimage and England’s Cathedrals, Past and Present, which ran from 2014-2018.[8]

The research of Bowman and Open University colleagues into alternative religions has been seen to have a number of impacts: both at an academic level in influencing research agendas but also in influencing a more positive public awareness of practitioners of alternative religions.[9]

Recognition[edit]

Bowman has been a visiting lecturer or professor at a number of European universities, including the University of Oslo, Norway;[10] University of Bayreuth, Germany; University of Pecs, Hungary and University of Tartu, Estonia.[11]

Bowman is currently vice-president of theology and religious studies UK.[12] She is a former president of the British Association for the Study of Religions and a former Vice-President of the European Association for the Study of Religions.[13]

Between 2002 and 2005, Bowman served as president of the Folklore Society: her Presidential Lectures derived from her research into Glastonbury and Newfoundland.[14][15] She is an International Fellow of the American Folklore Society.[16]

Selected publications[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c "Dr Marion Bowman | OU people profiles". www.open.ac.uk. Retrieved 2021-04-01.
  2. ^ a b "It's a way with the fairies". The Independent. 2013-09-23. Retrieved 2021-05-01.
  3. ^ "Marion Bowman". The Conversation. 19 June 2014. Retrieved 2021-04-01.
  4. ^ Bowman, Marion (27 July 2016). "The contented collector: materiality, relationality and the power of things". Material Religion. 12 (3): 384–386. doi:10.1080/17432200.2016.1192159. S2CID 193315973.[non-primary source needed]
  5. ^ Bowman, Marion Irene (1998). Vernacular Religion and Contemporary Spirituality: Studies in Religious Experience and Expression (Thesis).
  6. ^ "Bowman". The Baron Thyssen Centre for the Study of Ancient Material Religion. Retrieved 2021-04-01.
  7. ^ "Steering Committee". The Baron Thyssen Centre for the Study of Ancient Material Religion. Retrieved 2021-04-01.
  8. ^ "Cathedrals & Pilgrimage". Cathedrals & Pilgrimage. Retrieved 2021-04-01.
  9. ^ "REF Case study search". impact.ref.ac.uk. Retrieved 2021-05-01.
  10. ^ jeg?, Besøksadresse P. A. Munchs husNiels Henrik Abels vei 36 0371 OSLO Postadresse Postboks 1010 Blindern 0315 OSLO Kontakt oss Hvem kontakter. "Marion Bowman er tilsatt som professor II i kulturhistorie - Institutt for kulturstudier og orientalske språk". www.hf.uio.no (in Norwegian). Retrieved 2021-05-01.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  11. ^ "2019 ISSRNC Conference - Keynote Speaker Marion Bowman". The International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture (ISSRNC). 2018-11-30. Retrieved 2021-04-01.
  12. ^ "Who We Are – Theology and Religious Studies UK". Retrieved 2021-04-01.
  13. ^ "Contesting Authority; Vernacular Knowledge and Alternative Beliefs; Marion Bowman and Ülo Valk". Equinox Publishing. Retrieved 2021-04-01.
  14. ^ Bowman, Marion (March 2003). "Vernacular religion and nature: The 'Bible of the Folk' tradition in Newfoundland". Folklore. 114 (3): 285–295. doi:10.1080/0015587032000145333. S2CID 144203410.[non-primary source needed]
  15. ^ Bowman, Marion (December 2004). "Presidential address given to the Folklore society, March 2004: Procession and possession in glastonbury: continuity, change and the manipulation of tradition". Folklore. 115 (3): 273–285. doi:10.1080/0015587042000284266.[non-primary source needed]
  16. ^ "AFS Fellows". American Folklore Society. Retrieved 2024-02-07.

External links[edit]

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Bowman

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