Dr Jenny Butler is a well known folklorist and scholar of religions and is the leading authority on the academic study of folk religion as well as Western Esotericism, new religious movements and emergent spiritualities in the Irish context. Dr Butler conducted the first ever ethnographic study of Irish contemporary Paganism and her book on this topic, '21st Century Irish Paganism: Worldview, Ritual, Identity', is forthcoming from Routledge. Her research specialisms are ritual, festival, myth, magical and supernatural traditions, sacred landscape and pilgrimage, and death studies.
Dr Butler has been the recipient of many awards, bursaries and accolades, and her research has been supported by the Irish Research Council, the Royal Irish Academy, the Ireland-Canada University Foundation, and the Ireland-Newfoundland Partnership (Department of the Taoiseach). Dr Butler has been a Government of Ireland Research Scholar (2001-2004), a Dobbin Scholar (2010) and a Charlemont Scholar (2017).
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