DrChristopher Humphrey Hartney

Project Opportunities

Title: New Religious Systems

Summary of opportunity:

Christopher Humphrey Hartney is Chair of Discipline and senior lecturer in the Discipline of Studies in Religion. Here he studies and teaches the myths of modernity, religion and violence, civil religion, and new religious systems. His research aims are to explore the religious dimensions of the present conditions of Modernity and examine the religions of East Asia - with a special focus on Vietnam. Presently he is working on translations of major texts from the new Vietnamese indigenous religion of Caodaism. The first tome of this project is the monograph "How Heaven Works" (Brill, 2023). Chris is former editor of Literature and Aesthetics and the prestigious Journal of Religious History, He has also edited numerous scholarly editions and has published over 55 peer-reviewed papers. 

Opportunity synopsis:

Research interests

----------Current Research Projects----------

1. Editor of a special edition for Religions on the topic of "Religion and Creativity" See: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/special_issues/E4016997X5
2. Editor of a special edition for Nova Religio on the topic of "Caodaism"
3. Author (with Associate Professor Bernard Doherty and Dr Geraldine Smith) New Religions in Australia: Innovations, Controversies, and Cultural Responses London, Bloomsbury, 2027.