CONFERENCES

Conference Assistant, ‘A Liberating Spirit? Exploring Spirituality for the 21st Century’, Modern Church Annual Conference (July 2014)

Conference Assistant, ‘Seeking the Sacred: Christianity in dialogue with other religions and the world’, Modern Church Annual Conference (July 2015)

‘The Chorister’s Church: An initiation of faith or a chasm of sermon doodles?’, Annual Conference for the Study of Implicit Religion, Salisbury (May 2016)

‘The Nostalgia of Christmas Worship: a resource for re-collection, re-flection and re-newal as experienced at the Christmas Eve Carol Service held at Holy Trinity Church, Stratford upon Avon in 2015’, ‘Winter Festivals and Traditions’ Conference at Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology (ISCA), Oxford (March 2017)

‘The elfish enactment of ‘Christmas magic’: an exploration of parental delight in childhood play’, Panel on ‘Exoreligious experiences of the numinous’ at International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) and the Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA) Annual Conference, Ottawa, Canada (May 2017)

‘The immaterial personalisation of material Christmas traditions: an exploration of the British Christmas Spirit’ [Scratch session], Annual Conference for the Study of Implicit Religion, Salisbury (May 2017)

‘The British Nativity Play: an initiation into the cultural ideology behind the familiar tea towel’, British Association for the Study of Religion (BASR) Annual Conference, Chester (September 2017)

‘The festive “logging” of Christmas: an ethnographic exploration of emotion, identity, and memory’, St Chad’s College MCR Research Forum, Durham (December 2018)

‘The British Nativity Play: an initiation into the cultural ideology behind the familiar tea towel’, British Sociological Association, SocRel Group Annual Conference, University of Strathclyde (July 2018)

‘The Story of My Elf Gelf: my dividual research (s)Elf’, British Association for the Study of Religion (BASR) Annual Conference, Belfast (September 2018)

‘Magic mirror on my festive wall, who has the most wonderful Christmas of them all?! : an ethnographic exploration of a very Christmassy emotion’, Special lecture given at St. Chad’s College, Durham alongside accompanying community engagement event (December 2018)

PUBLICATIONS

Murphy, Lucinda. Sep. 2018. ‘The British Nativity Play: an initiation into a familiar paradigmatic scene’, Journal of the British Association for the Study of Religion, 20: 118-144 <https://www.jbasr.com/ojs/ index.php/jbasr/article/download/33/33> [Last accessed July 2022]

Murphy, Lucinda. 2018. ‘The festive “logging” of Christmas: an ethnographic exploration of emotion, identity, and memory’, Foundation [Journal of St. Chad’s College Middle Common Room], Vol. X, 1: 33-58

Murphy, Lucinda. Dec 2019. ‘Christmas as Religion: Rethinking Santa, the Secular, and the Sacred, by Christopher Deacy’, Literature and Theology, 33 (4): 494–496

Murphy, Lucinda. March 2020. ‘The Public Work of Christmas: Difference and Belonging in Multicultural Societies, ed. by Pamela K. Klassen and Monique Scheer’, Literature and Theology, 34 (1): 127–129