Caroline Tully - Academic Publications

Of all the types of work I do, I consider my writing to be the most important. I have been writing for publication since 1986. I started writing for witchcraft magazines back then and wrote for most of those available in Australia, the UK and USA. In 1999 I got a job at Australia’s WitchCraft Magazine (Federal Publishing) where for 6 years I was a feature writer, opinion piece writer, reviewer, and News & Events editor. That was popular writing and most of it was for hard copy magazines and books. I began learning academic writing from 2004 onwards when I was a mature age student at The University of Melbourne and much of my academic writing can be found on my Academia page. Here is a list of my existing and forthcoming academic publications.

 

BOOKS

Armour for the Soul: Amulets, Charms and Talismans. London: Reaktion Books (forthcoming)

Contemporary Paganism: The Basics. London: Routledge (forthcoming).

Sacred Geographies. Co-edited with Larissa Tittl. London: Routledge (forthcoming).

The Night Queen: Shamanic Witchcraft for Today. Munich: Theion Publishing (in press)

Minoan Transcorporeality. Munich: Theion Publishing (in press).

A Century of James Frazer’s The Golden Bough. Co-edited with Stephanie Budin. London: Routledge, 2024.

Plague in Antiquity. Co-edited with Andrew Jamieson and Louise A. Hitchcock. Ancient Near Eastern Studies Supplement Series, Peeters, Leuven, 2024.

The Cultic Life of Trees in the Prehistoric Aegean, Levant, Egypt and Cyprus. Aegaeum 42. Peeters: Leuven, 2018.

 

ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS

‘On every high hill and under every green tree: open air cult sites in the Levant.’ In Sacred Geographies, edited by Larissa Tittl and Caroline Tully. London: Routledge (in press).

‘The Connecting Sea: The Aegean as Central to a Mediterranean Agorocracy.’ Co-authored with Louise Hitchcock. In Hydor: Water Resources and Management in the Aegean Bronze Age. Proceedings of the XXe Rencontre égéenne internationale / XXth International Aegean Conference, University of Amsterdam, 11-16 June, 2024, edited by Robert Laffineur, Gert Jan van Wijngaarden, Jean Paul Crielaard, Joost Crouwel, Jan Driessen and Jill Hilditch. Aegaeum 50. Peeters: Leuven (in press).

‘Minoan Transcorporeality: Female Bodies, Ritual, and Nature in Late Bronze Age Crete.’ In ΦΙΛΟΜΑΘΕΙΑ: Studies in Bronze Age Aegean Art and Archaeology in Honor of Anne P. Chapin, edited by Marie N. Pareja Cummings. Oxford: Archaeopress (in press).

‘Agonistic Scenes.’ In The Blackwell Companion to Aegean Art and Architecture, edited by Louise Hitchcock and Brent Davis. Oxford: Blackwell (in press).

‘Moon and Huntress: Frazer’s Arician Diana in Italian-American Witchcraft.’ In A Century of James Frazer’s The Golden Bough, edited by Stephanie Budin and Caroline Tully. London: Routledge, 2024.

‘Against Nature: Tree-Shaking Action in Minoan Glyptic Art as Agonistic Behaviour.’ In Gesture – Stance – Movement: Communicating Bodies in the Aegean Bronze Age, edited by Ute Günkel-Maschek, Céline Murphy, Fritz Blakolmer and Diamantis Panagiotopoulos. Heidelberg University Publishing, 2024.

‘When it standeth beside a man, yet none can see it…when it entereth the house its appearance is unknown…: Introducing Plague in Antiquity.’ Co-authored with Andrew Jamieson and Louise A. Hitchcock. In Plague in Antiquity, edited by Andrew Jamieson, Caroline Tully and Louise A. Hitchcock. Ancient Near Eastern Studies Supplement Series, Peeters, Leuven, 2024.

‘Lifting the Veil of Isis: Egyptian Reception and the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.’ In Alternative Egyptology: Critical essays on the relation between academic and alternative interpretations of ancient Egypt, edited by Ben van den Bercken. Leiden: Sidestone Press, 2024.

‘What is the relationship between ancient and contemporary Paganism?’ In Pagan Religions in Five Minutes edited by Suzanne Own and Angela Puca. Sheffield: Equinox, 2024.

‘Can a Pagan follow more than one path or tradition?’ In Pagan Religions in Five Minutes edited by Suzanne Own and Angela Puca. Sheffield: Equinox, 2024.

‘Is there a difference between magic and magick?’ In Pagan Religions in Five Minutes edited by Suzanne Own and Angela Puca. Sheffield: Equinox, 2024.

‘Paradise on Earth: Feraferia and the Landscapes of the Mind.’ Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture 17:4. 2023. 439–457.

‘Introduction to The Pomegranate special issue on Pagans and Museums.’ Pomegranate: International Journal of Pagan Studies 23: 1–2. 2022.

‘Understanding the language of trees: ecstatic experience and interspecies communication in Late Bronze Age Crete.’ In Ecstatic Experience in the Ancient World, edited by Sarah Costello, Karen Foster and Diana Stein. London: Routledge, 2021.

‘Traces of places: sacred sites in miniature on Minoan gold rings.’ In Sacred Sites and Sacred Stories: Transmission of Oral Tradition, Myth, and Religiosity, edited by David Kim, 11–40. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.

‘Cockles, mussels, fishing nets and finery: the relationship between cult, textiles and the sea depicted on a Minoan-style gold ring from Pylos.’ Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies. Special issue the ‘Entangled Sea’ edited by Ina Berg and Louise Hitchcock. 8: 3-4. 2020. 365–378.

‘Enthroned Upon Mountains: Constructions of Power in the Aegean Bronze Age.’ Co-authored with S. Crooks. In The Ancient Throne. The Mediterranean, the Near East, and Beyond, 3^rd millennium BCE 0 14^th Century CE. Proceedings of the Workshop held at ICANNE in Vienna, April 2016, edited by Liat Naeh and Dana Brostowsky Gilboa, 37–59. Vienna: OREA, 2020.

‘Celtic Egyptians: Isis Priests of the Lineage of Scota.’ In Ancient Egypt in the Modern Imagination, edited by Eleanor Dobson and Nichola Tonks, 145–160. London: Bloomsbury, 2020.

‘Power Ranges: Identity and Terrain in Minoan Crete.’ Co-authored with S. Crooks. Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture 13: 2. 2019. 130–156.

‘The Self Possessed: Framing Identity in Late Minoan Glyptic.’ Co-authored with S. Crooks. In ΜΝΗΜΗ / Mneme: Past and Memory in the Aegean Bronze Age, Aegaeum 43, edited by Elisabetta Borgna, Ilaria Caloi, Filippo Carinci and Robert Laffineur, 749–752. Peeters: Leuven, 2019.

‘The artifice of Daidalos: Modern Minoica as religious focus in contemporary Paganism.’ In New Antiquities: Transformations of Ancient Religion in the New Age and Beyond, edited by Dylan Burns and Almut-Barbara Renger, 76–102. Sheffield: Equinox, 2019.

‘Introduction to The Pomegranate special issue on Paganism, Art, and Fashion.’ The Pomegranate: International Journal of Pagan Studies 21:2. 2019. 141–145.

‘The artifice of Daidalos: Modern Minoica as religious focus in contemporary Paganism.’ The International Journal for the Study of New Religions 8: 2. 2018. 183–212.

‘Thalassocratic Charms: Trees, Boats, Women and the Sea in Minoan Glyptic Art.’ Proceedings of the 12th International Congress of Cretan Studies, 24th September 2016, Heraklion, Crete. 2018. 1–12.

‘Egyptosophy in the British Museum: Florence Farr, the Egyptian Adept and the Ka.’ In The Occult Imagination in Britain, 1875–1947, edited by Christine Ferguson and Andrew Radford, 131–145. London: Routledge, 2018.

‘Virtual Reality: Tree Cult and Epiphanic Ritual in Aegean Glyptic Iconography.’ Journal of Prehistoric Religion. Robin Hägg memorial issue. Vol. XXV: 19–30. 2016.

‘Numinous tree and stone: re-animating the Minoan landscape.’ Co-authored with S. Crooks and L. Hitchcock. In METAPHYSIS: Ritual Myth and Symbolism in the Aegean Bronze Age. Aegaeum 39. E. Alram-Stern, F. Blakolmer, S. Deger-Jalkotzy, R. Laffineur and J. Weilhartner (eds), 157–164. Leuven: Peeters, 2016.

‘Dropping Ecstasy? Minoan Cult and the Tropes of Shamanism.’ Co-authored with Sam Crooks. Time and Mind: The Journal for Archaeology Consciousness and Culture. 8.2: 129–158. 2015.

‘Museums of Israel.’ In Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Claire Smith (Ed.) Springer: New York, 2014.  

‘The British Museum’. In Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Claire Smith (Ed.) Springer:  New York, 2014. 

‘The Sacred Life of Trees: What trees say about people in the prehistoric Aegean and Near East.’ In Proceedings of the 33^rd Australian Society for Classical Studies Conference. 2012. Available online at http://www.ascs.org.au/news/ascs33/index.html

‘Walk Like an Egyptian: Egypt as Authority in Aleister Crowley’s Reception of The Book of the Law.’ The Pomegranate: International Journal of Pagan Studies 12:1. 2010. 20–47.

Report on the excavation at Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel, 2009. Biblical Archaeology Review 36: 1. (Jan/Feb 2010). Available online at http://www.bib-arch.org/e-features/scholarship-recipient-report.asp