Dr Graham Harvey has been Reader in Religious Studies  at the Open University since 1993, and is also the President of the  British Association for the Study of Religions. In addition to animism,  his work has covered Judaism, Paganism, indigenous religions and shamanism. His publications include Animism: Respecting the Living World (2005; 2nd edition in May 2017), and the edited Handbook of Contemporary Animism (2013).