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Lecturer

Scott Simpson

Scott Simpson

Office hours: Thursday, 10.20-11.50, room 518

Scott Simpson’s research interests include religious diversity in Central and Eastern Europe, Ritual Studies, and Food & Drink Studies. He has studied Contemporary Paganisms in the CEE region since 1995, and is series editor (with Chas Clifton) of Equinox publishing’s Contemporary and Historical Paganism series, and is on the board of The Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies. He has curated or co-curated temporary exhibitions at the Archaeological Museum in Kraków and the Jagiellonian Library Exhibition Hall. He has also published and lectured on the history of Polish vodka.

  • Editorial board of The Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies
  • Curator, temporary exhibit “Apokryfy Słowiańskie/Slavic Apocrypha” in the Archaeological Museum in Kraków, 2018-2019
  • Curator, temporary exhibit “Constructing a Vision of Contemporary Paganism in Poland - Franciszek ‘Słońcesław’ Frączek (1908-2006)” in the Jagiellonian University Library Exhibition Hall, 2011
  • Curator, temporary exhibit “Romantic Imagination and Polish Neo-Paganism” in the Jagiellonian University Library Exhibition Hall, 2009

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S. Simpson, Only Slavic Gods: Nativeness in Polish Rodzimowierstwo [in:] K.  Rountree (ed.) Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism and Modern Paganism, Palgrave-Macmillan, New York 2017, p. 65-86.

S. Simpson, K. Aitamurto, The Study of Paganism and Wicca: A Review Essay [in:] J. R. Lewis and I. B. Tøllefsen (eds.) Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements, Second Edition, OUP, Oxford 2016, p. 482-494.

S. Simpson, Men Constructing Masculinity in Polish Rodzimowierstwo: Tradition and Nature, “Pantheon” 2015, 10/1, p. 3-20.

S. Simpson, K. Aitamurto (eds.), Modern Pagan and Native Faith Movements in Central and Eastern Europe, Routledge, Abingdon 2014, p. 352 (2nd edition).

S. Simpson, Strategies for Constructing Religious Practice in Polish Rodzimowierstwo, [in:] A. Anczyk, H. Grzymała-Moszczyńska, Walking the Old Ways: Studies in Contemporary European Paganism, Sacrum, Katowice 2012, p. 11-36.

S. Simpson, Joke Religions: Make-Believe in the Sandbox of the Gods, “Ex Nihilo” 2011, no 2(6), p. 91-118.

S. Simpson, History and Mythology of Polish Vodka: 1270-2007, “Food and History” 2010, vol. 8, no. 1, p. 121-148.

S. Simpson, Traveller’s Krakow, Thomas Cook Publishing, Cambridge 2011, p. 192 (4th edition).

S. Simpson, Slavic Neo-Paganism (encyclopaedia entry) [in:] B. Taylor (ed.) The Encyclopaedia of Religion and Nature, Continuum, London, New York 2005, p. 1557-1558.

S. Simpson, Native Faith: Polish Neo-Paganism at the Brink of the 21st Century. Zakład Wydawniczy Nomos, Kraków 2000, p. 166.