Books

• Hartney, C. (2024). How Heaven Works: The Collective Shamanic Journeys of Phạm Công Tắc and the Syncretic Afterworld of Caodaism. Leiden: Brill.
• Hartney, C., Noble, J. (2015). Cambridge Studies of Religion Stage Six Third Edition. Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]

Edited Books

• Hartney, C., Tower, D. (2017). Religious Categories and the Construction of the Indigenous. Leiden: Brill. [More Information]
• Hartney, C. (2014). Secularisation: New Historical Perspectives. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
• Cusack, C., Hartney, C. (2010). Religion and Retributive Logic: Essays in Honour of Professor Garry W. Trompf. Leiden: Brill.
• Cusack, C., Di Lauro, F., Hartney, C. (2005). The buddha of suburbia : proceedings of the eighth Australian and International Religion, Literature and the Arts Conference 2004. Sydney: RLA Press.

Book Chapters

• Hartney, C. (2024). Processes of radicalization onscreen: How we canonize the white saints of freedom. In Akil N. Awan, James R. Lewis (Eds.), Radicalisation: A Global and Comparative Perspective, (pp. 105-120). United Kingdom: Hurst and Company. [More Information]
• Hartney, C. (2017). Indigenous or Non-Indigenous: Who Benefits from Narrow Definitions of Religion? In Christopher Hartney, Daniel J Tower (Eds.), Religious Categories and the Construction of the Indigenous, (pp. 203-227). Leiden: Brill. [More Information]
• Hartney, C., Tower, D. (2017). Indigenous Religion: Its Validity and Problematics. In Christopher Hartney, Daniel J Tower (Eds.), Religious Categories and the Construction of the Indigenous, (pp. 1-7). Leiden: Brill. [More Information]
• Hartney, C. (2016). Why Muslims Kill Themselves on Film: From Hollywood's Racism to Girard's Victimage Mechanism. In James R. Lewis, Carole M. Cusack (Eds.), Sacred Suicide, (pp. 271-290). Farnham, United Kingdom: Ashgate Publishing. [More Information]
• Hartney, C. (2015). Traditional Modernity: A Vietnamese Response to French Colonialism as Revealed in the Great Mural of Dao Cao Dai. In David W. Kim (Eds.), Religious Transformation in Modern Asia: A Transnational Movement, (pp. 214-232). Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. [More Information]
• Hartney, C. (2014). States of Ulitmacy and the Cult of the Dead Soldier: The ANZAC Tradition, the Secularisation Paradigm, the Charisma of Materiality, and Civil Religion as it is Embodied in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra. In Christopher Hartney (Eds.), Secularisation: New Historical Perspectives, (pp. 214-250). Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
• Hartney, C. (2012). Constructing the Cornucopia that is Caodaism: Themes of Cultural Production in an Increasingly Acephalous Milieu. In Carole Cusack and Alex Norman (Eds.), Handbook of New Religions and Cultural Production, (pp. 633-657). Leiden: Brill. [More Information]
• Cusack, C., Hartney, C. (2010). Introduction. In Carole M. Cusack, Christopher Hartney (Eds.), Religion and Retributive Logic: Essays in Honour of Professor Garry W. Trompf, (pp. 1-14). Leiden: Brill.
• Hartney, C. (2010). Per Saturam or Performance? Seneca's Initium Saeculi Felicissimi: ritual hilarity and millenial closure in the Apocolocyntosis. In Carole M. Cusack, Christopher Hartney (Eds.), Religion and Retributive Logic: Essays in Honour of Professor Garry W. Trompf, (pp. 167-185). Leiden: Brill.
• Hartney, C. (2007). From Kpónos to Xpónos: time, humour and the Hindu-Muslim puppet. In Victoria Barker and Frances di Lauro (Eds.), On a Panegyrical Note: Studies in Honour of Garry W Trompf, (pp. 127-142). Sydney: Department of Studies in Religion, University of Sydney.
• Hartney, C. (2006). Concerning Voltaire's English Enterprise. In Frances Di Lauro (Eds.), Through a Glass Darkly: Reflections on the Sacred, (pp. 112-124). Sydney: Sydney University Press.
• Wickham, S., Hartney, C. (2006). Rockchopping with little pebble: mainstream, fringe and criminal. In Frances Di Lauro (Eds.), Through a Glass Darkly: Reflections on the Sacred, (pp. 288-301). Sydney: Sydney University Press.
• Hartney, C. (2006). The Garden and the Gardener: Towards a Cinematic Twist for America's Prelapsarian Fantasy. In Frances Di Lauro (Eds.), Through a Glass Darkly: Reflections on the Sacred, (pp. 315-330). Sydney: Sydney University Press.
• Hartney, C. (2005). Between Sacred and Secular: The Pop Cult Saviour Approacheth!. In Carole M. Cusack, Frances Di Lauro and Christopher Hartney. (Eds.), The buddha of suburbia : proceedings of the eighth Australian and International Religion, Literature and the Arts Conference 2004, (pp. 282-290). Sydney: RLA Press.
• Hartney, C. (2005). Imperial and Epic: Philip Pullman's Dead God. In Carole M. Cusack, Frances Di Lauro and Christopher Hartney. (Eds.), The buddha of suburbia : proceedings of the eighth Australian and International Religion, Literature and the Arts Conference 2004, (pp. 245-259). Sydney: RLA Press.
• Hartney, C. (2004). Performances Of Multiculturalism: South Asian Communities In Sydney. In Jacobsen and Kumar (Eds.), South Asians in the Diaspora: Histories and Religious Traditions, (pp. 435-453). Leiden: Brill.
• Hartney, C. (2004). Traditions Anciennes, Foi Nouvelle: Le Caodaisme Et La Vie Religieuse Du Monde. In Jean-Francois Mayer and Reender Kranenborg (Eds.), La Naissance des Nouvelles Religions, (pp. 55-79). Geneva: Georg Editeur.
• Hartney, C. (2004). Vietnamese Esoterica And The Chinese Mystical Model. In Edward Fitzpatrick Crangle (Eds.), Esotericism and the Control of Knowledge, (pp. 274-286). Sydney: Department of Studies in Religion, University of Sydney.
• Hartney, C. (2000). Syncretism and the End of Religions. In Carole M. Cusack and Peter Oldmeadow (Eds.), The End of Religions? Religion in an Age of Globalisation, (pp. 233-248). Australia: Department of Studies in Religion, University of Sydney.

Journals

• Hartney, C. (2022). Vietnamese Syncretism and the Characteristics of Caodaism's Chief Deity: Problematising Duc Cao Dai as a 'Monotheistic' God Within an East Asian Heavenly Milieu. Journal of Daesoon Thought and the Religions of East Asia, 1(2), 41-59. [More Information]
• Alderton Flett, Z., Hartney, C. (2021). ANZAC Celebration During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Observations from Fieldwork in Katoomba, New South Wales. Fieldwork in Religion, 16(1), 8-34. [More Information]
• Hartney, C. (2021). Divine Mother of Carramar: The Motivations, Construction, and Stylistics of Caodaism’s Second Sydney Temple. Wuhan Journal of Cultic Studies, 1(1), 83-97. [More Information]
• Hartney, C. (2020). Paul Daley, On Patriotism. Alternative Spirituality and Religion Review, 11(1), 102-104. [More Information]
• Alderton Flett, Z., Hartney, C., Tower, D. (2016). Fieldwork on ANZAC Day: A Performance Analysis of the Dawn Service and Other Rituals, 25 April 2015. Fieldwork in Religion, 11(2), 170-198. [More Information]
• Alderton Flett, Z., Hartney, C., Tower, D. (2016). Fieldwork on Anzac Day: A Performance Analysis of the Dawn Service and Other Rituals, 25 April 2015*. Fieldwork in Religion, 11(2), 170-198. [More Information]
• Hartney, C. (2014). Finding a Place for Possession, Divination, and Trance within the Historical Perspective. Journal of Religious History, 38(2), 263-273. [More Information]
• Coleman, E., Hartney, C., Alderton Flett, Z. (2013). Defining 'Social Aesthetics'. Literature and Aesthetics, 23(1), 1-11.
• Hartney, C. (2013). Review Article : Waco in Scholarship Twenty Years On. Alternative Spirituality and Religion Review, 4(1), 147-160. [More Information]
• Hartney, C. (2011). Between National Censorship and the Limits of Representation: On Thyestes, Salo, Cultural Warnings, and Trauma. Literature and Aesthetics, 21(2), 160-179.
• Hartney, C. (2011). Vietnamese community memory: exile, homesickness and faith. Literature and Aesthetics, 21, 34-46.
• Hartney, C. (2010). On Popular Epicureanism: Relationships of Theme and Style in Harold and Maude and Bad Boy Bubby. Literature and Aesthetics, 20(2), 168-179.
• Hartney, C. (2009). Transcending Cinematic Readings: History, Film, Religion and the Mentality of Cultures. Sydney Studies in Religion, , 1-5.
• Hartney, C. (2009). With Spain in our hearts: the political fantastic of Guillermo del Toro's Laberinto del fauno (2006) and El espinazo del diablo (2001). Literature and Aesthetics, 19(2), 187-201.
• Hartney, C. (2007). Spiritism and Charisma: Caodaism from its Infancy. Australian Religion Studies Review, 20(3), 334-356.
• Hartney, C. (2006). Book Review - Frederick B Davis' 'The Jew and Deicide: The Origin of an Archetype'. Journal of Religious History, 30(1), 98-99.
• Hartney, C. (2006). Book Review - Isabelle Delpha and Phillipe de Robert's 'La raison corrosive: Etudes sur la pensée critique de Pierre Bayle'. Journal of Religious History, 30(2), 243-244.
• Hartney, C. (2006). Book Review - Maria Hsia Chang's 'Falun Gong: The End of Days'. Journal of Religious History, 30(1), 134-135.
• Hartney, C. (2006). Book Review - Maribel Fierro's 'Judíos y Musulmanes en al-Andalus y el Magreb Contactos Intelectuales, Madrid, Casa de Velázquez'. Journal of Religious History, 30(1), 107-107.
• Hartney, C. (2006). Book Review - Paul E Kerry's 'Enlightenment Thought in the Writings of Goethe: A Contribution to the History of Ideas'. Journal of Religious History, 30(1), 125-126.
• Hartney, C. (2006). Book Review - Stuart Chandler's 'Establishing a Pureland on Eath: The Foguang Buddhist Perspective on Modernization and Globalization'. Journal of Religious History, 30(2), 259-260.
• Hartney, C. (2006). Book Review - Thomas Michael's 'The Pristine Dao: Metaphysics in Early Daoist Discourse'. Journal of Religious History, 30(2), 227-228.
• Hartney, C. (2006). Si quando spe aleris..Between New Religion and New Language. Mentalities: an interdisciplinary journal, 20(1), 18-28.
• Hartney, C. (2005). Book Review - Dan Cohn-Sherbok's 'Jews in the Modern World'. Australian Religion Studies Review, 18(1), 116-117.
• Hartney, C. (2005). Colonial Disjuncture: Aspects of the Modern Religious Life of Vietnam. Threskeiologia (The Greek Journal of Comparative Religion), 6/7(1), 78-111.
• Hartney, C. (2005). Poetry Review - Jan Owen's 'Time Dancing'. Five Bells, 12(2).
• Hartney, C. (2004). Vietnamese Mysticism and the Chinese Esoteric Model. Sydney Studies in Religion, Esotericism & the Control of Knowledge:Special Ed., 274-286.
• Hartney, C. (2004). Why Hugo? Personality, Séance and "Shaky Alexandrines" in Pre-war Vietnam. Khthónios, II(1), 5-18.
• Hartney, C. (2003). From Multiculturalism to Universalism: Religion, Community and the Future of Religion in Australia. Threskeiologia (The Greek Journal of Comparative Religion), 5(1), 231-246.
• Hartney, C. (2003). From Multiculturalism to Universalism; Religion, Community and the Future of Religion in Australia. Threskeiologia (The Greek Journal of Comparative Religion), 5(1), 231-246.
• Hartney, C. (2003). Open Temple Open Eyes: Viewing Caodaism. Australian Religion Studies Review, 16(1), 37-48.
• Hartney, C. (2003). Open temple, open eyes: Viewing Caodaism. Australian Religion Studies Review, 16(1), 37-48.
• Hartney, C. (2003). Poetry Review - Geoff Page's 'Darker and Lighter'. Five Bells, 10(1).
• Hartney, C. (2001). Poetry Review - Max Williams' 'The Unforgiving Poem'. Five Bells, 8(3).
• Hartney, C. (2001). Poetry Review - Peter Steele's 'Invisible Riders’. Five Bells, 8(2).

Edited Journals

• Hartney, C., Ioannides, G. (2011). The Limits of Representation and the Aesthetics of Excess. Literature and Aesthetics, 21(2).
• Hartney, C. (2007). New Religions in East Asia. Australian Religion Studies Review, 20(3).

Conferences

• Hartney, C. (2004). Manikins Wobbling Towards Dismemberment: Art And Religion - A State Of The Union. 2002 Conference of the Religion, Literature and the Arts Society, Sydney: RLA Press.
• Hartney, C. (2002). Of Seance and Surrealism, Poetry and Crisis. The sixth Australian International Religion, Literature and the Arts Conference, Sydney: RLA Press.
• Hartney, C. (2001). Syncretism and the End of Religion(s). Australian Association for the Study of Religion, : UNSW Australian Defence Force Academy.

Magazine / Newspaper Articles

• Hartney, C. (2021). Unis are killing the critical study of religion, and it will only make campuses more religious. The Conversation. [More Information]
• Hartney, C. (2013). Peace at last in Sydney's Rookwood Cemetery. The Conversation. [More Information]

Reference Works

• Hartney, C., Buljan, K. (2008). Ken Unsworth. Design and Art Australia Online. Design & Art Australia Online.
• Hartney, C. (2002). Caodaism. In Melton, J. Gordon and Martin Baumann (Eds.), Religions of the World: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Beliefs and Practices. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio.
• Hartney, C. (2002). Taiwan. Religions of the World: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Beliefs and Practices. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio.
• Hartney, C. (2002). Vietnam. Religions of the World: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Beliefs and Practices. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio.

Other

• Hartney, C. (2005), The Field, Its Paths: A Guide to the Study of Religion.
• Hartney, C. (2004), Buddhism (Guide for junior high school).
• Hartney, C. (2004), Judaism (Guide for junior high school).
• Hartney, C. (2004), Livewire Investigates: Christianity.
• Hartney, C. (2004), Livewire Investigates: Hinduism.
• Hartney, C. (2004), Livewire Investigates: Islam.