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DrChristopher Humphrey Hartney

Chair of Discipline (Studies of Religion)

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

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  • Chair of Discipline (Studies of Religion)
    Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

RESEARCH INTERESTs

  • Religion, Ritual, Confucianism and a particular emphasis on Vietnam
  • Methodologies of performance, ritual and religion in everyday life and popular culture, performance and film, especially religion and film
  • The development of multiculturalism and universalism in the urban West
  • The non-mainstream and new religions of Sydney
  • Approaches to, and methods for, explaining creativity 
  • Humanism and philsophical approaches to myth and self in Modernity. 

FUNDED RESEARCH

  • GRANT
    The Caodaist Centenary Encyclopaedia
    International Caodist Group (Vietnam)1 Apr 2026
    People funded by this grant:
    • Hartney C
  • GRANT
    Religion and political thought
    Australian Research Council (ARC)1 Jan 2012
    People funded by this grant:
    • Boer R,
    • Maddox M,
    • Boucher G,
    • Sharpe M,
    • Hartney C