Books

• Trompf, G. (2023). Violence and Religious Change in the Pacific Islands. New York: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]
• Trompf, G. (2022). Violence in Pacific Islander Traditional Religions. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]
• Trompf, G. (2008). Payback: the logic of retribution in Melanesian religions. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
• Trompf, G. (2007). Early Christian Historiography: Narratives of Retribution. London: Equinox Publishing.
• Trompf, G. (2006). Religions of Melanesia: a bibliographic survey. Westport, CT USA: Praeger Publishers.

Edited Books

• Trompf, G., Mikkelsen, G., Johnston, J. (2018). The Gnostic World. Abingdon: Routledge. [More Information]
• Trompf, G., Hamel, G. (2001). The world of religions : essays on historical and contemporary issues : in honour of professor Noel Quinton King for his eightieth birthday. Delhi: Indian Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (ISPCK).

Book Chapters

• Trompf, G. (2021). Rituals Surrounding Sorcery and Witchcraft in Traditional Societies: Issues for Researchers. In Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew J. Strathern (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Anthropological Ritual Studies, (pp. 299-322). Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature Switzerland. [More Information]
• Trompf, G. (2020). About Cargo and the Melanesians. In Jennifer Reid and Davíd Carrasco (Eds.), With This Root about My Person: Charles H. Long and New Directions in the Study of Religion, (pp. 63-74). Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.
• Trompf, G. (2020). James Tulip and the Study of Religion at the University of Sydney. In William W. Emilsen and Laurence Woods (Eds.), Spirit of the Mountains: Tributes in Honour of James Tulip, (pp. 87-93). Lawson, NSW: Blue Mountain Education and Research Trust. [More Information]
• Trompf, G. (2019). Freemasonry: Gnostic images. In Garry W. Trompf, Gunner B. Mikkelsen, Jay Johnston (Eds.), The Gnostic World, (pp. 445-453). Abingdon: Routledge. [More Information]
• Trompf, G., Milani, M. (2019). From "Zurvanism" to Mazdak. In Garry W. Trompf, Gunner B. Mikkelsen, Jay Johnston (Eds.), The Gnostic World, (pp. 253-258). Abingdon: Routledge. [More Information]
• Trompf, G. (2019). Gnostic vicissitudes in Late Antiquity. In Garry W. Trompf, Gunner B. Mikkelsen, Jay Johnston (Eds.), The Gnostic World, (pp. 271-282). Abingdon: Routledge. [More Information]
• Trompf, G. (2019). Gnostics and temporality: from myth to macrohistory. In Garry W. Trompf, Gunner B. Mikkelsen, Jay Johnston (Eds.), The Gnostic World, (pp. 43-59). Abingdon: Routledge. [More Information]
• Trompf, G. (2019). Of Gnosis in tribal and "primal" cultures. In Garry W. Trompf, Gunner B. Mikkelsen, Jay Johnston (Eds.), The Gnostic World, (pp. 610-618). Abingdon: Routledge. [More Information]
• Trompf, G. (2019). Pansophia, Christian Kabbalism, and the quest for universal knowledge in the early modern West. In Garry W. Trompf, Gunner B. Mikkelsen, Jay Johnston (Eds.), The Gnostic World, (pp. 436-444). Abingdon: Routledge. [More Information]
• Trompf, G. (2019). The Gnostic World: a history of scholarship (until 2000). In Garry W. Trompf, Gunner B. Mikkelsen, Jay Johnston (Eds.), The Gnostic World, (pp. 26-42). Abingdon: Routledge. [More Information]
• Trompf, G., Kim, D. (2019). The Gospel of Judas and the Tchacos Codex. In Garry W. Trompf, Gunner B. Mikkelsen, Jay Johnston (Eds.), The Gnostic World, (pp. 180-186). Abingdon: Routledge. [More Information]
• Trompf, G. (2019). The Jewish background to "Gnosticism": a guide for the perplexed. In Garry W. Trompf, Gunner B. Mikkelsen, Jay Johnston (Eds.), The Gnostic World, (pp. 79-89). Abingdon: Routledge. [More Information]
• Trompf, G. (2017). Of Postcolonial Islam. In Jione Havea (Eds.), Postcolonial Voices from Downunder: Indigenous Matters, Confronting Readings, (pp. 88-109). Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock.
• Trompf, G. (2017). Onfray's Popular Atheological Manifesto: A Philosophical Estimate. In Christopher R. Cotter, Philip Andrew Quadrio, Jonathan Tuckett (Eds.), New Atheism: Critical Perspectives and Contemporary Debates, (pp. 137-154). Cham: Springer International Publishing. [More Information]
• Trompf, G. (2017). Reflections on Indigeneity and Religion. In Christopher Hartney, Daniel J Tower (Eds.), Religious Categories and the Construction of the Indigenous, (pp. 8-37). Leiden: Brill. [More Information]
• Trompf, G. (2016). Calumniation and Payback Theory: Wars of Words in the Breakdown of the Warrior Ethos. In Catherine A. Runcie (Eds.), The Free Mind: Essays and Poems in Honour of Barry Spurr, (pp. 221-235). Sydney: Edwin H. Lowe Publishing.
• Trompf, G. (2015). Australian Methodist Scholars. In Glen OBrien, Hilary M. Carey (Eds.), Methodism in Australia: A History, (pp. 225-241). Farnham, UK: Ashgate. [More Information]
• Trompf, G. (2015). Cargo Cult. In Robert Segal, Kocku von Stuckrad (Eds.), Vocabulary for the Study of Religion, (pp. e1-e4). Leiden: Brill. [More Information]
• Trompf, G. (2015). Do ut des. In Robert Segal, Kocku von Stuckrad (Eds.), Vocabulary for the Study of Religion, (pp. e1-e4). Leiden: Brill. [More Information]
• Trompf, G. (2015). Gift/Giving. In Robert Segal, Kocku von Stuckrad (Eds.), Vocabulary for the Study of Religion, (pp. e1-e4). Leiden: Brill. [More Information]
• Trompf, G. (2015). The Ararat Factor: Moral Basics in Western Political Theory from Isaac Newton to John Stuart Mill. In Uwe Blasing, Victoria Arakelova, Matthias Weinreich (Eds.), Studies on Iran and the Caucasus: Presented to Proj Gamik S. Asatrian on the Occasion of his 60th Birthday, (pp. 629-666). Leiden: Brill. [More Information]
• Trompf, G. (2013). Theosophical Macrohistory. In Olav Hammer, Mikael Rothstein (Eds.), Handbook of the Theosophical Current, (pp. 375-403). Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. [More Information]
• Trompf, G. (2012). Christianity in Melanesia: Transforming the Warrior Spirit. In Charles E Farhadian (Eds.), Introducing World Christianity, (pp. 244-258). United Kingdon: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing.
• Trompf, G. (2012). History and the end of time in new religions. In Olav Hammer and Mikael Rothstein (Eds.), The Cambridge Companion to New Religious Movements, (pp. 63-79). New York: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]
• Trompf, G., Bernauer, L. (2012). Producing Lost Civilisations: Theosophical Concepts in Literature, Visual Media and Popular Culture. In Carole Cusack and Alex Norman (Eds.), Handbook of New Religions and Cultural Production, (pp. 101-131). Leiden: Brill. [More Information]
• Trompf, G. (2012). Religion and Politics: An Introduction. In Ravi Bhatia (Eds.), Religious Plurality, Gandhian Thought and Environmental Issues, (pp. 77-103). New Delhi: IMH.
• Trompf, G. (2011). Introduction: Athanasius Kircher as Esoteric Thinker and the State of Kircher Scholarship. In Elizabeth Fletcher (Eds.), A Study of the Life and Works of Athanasius Kircher, Germanus Incredibilis, (pp. xxi-xxxiv). Leiden, Netherlands: Brill.
• Trompf, G. (2008). Religion and violence: a macrohistorical perspective. In William W Emilsen and John T Squires (Eds.), Validating Violence - Violating Faith Religion, Scripture and Violence, (pp. 187-217). Adelaide: ATF Press.
• Trompf, G. (2007). Of Colligation and Reification in the Representation of Religion (and Violence). In John OGrady and Peter Scherle (Eds.), Ecumenics from the Rim, (pp. 179-186). Berlin: LIT Verlag.
• Trompf, G. (2007). Ritual and Identity Markers in Melanesia: Ethnohistorical Perspectives. In Anatoly Malafeev (Eds.), Social Innovations in Cultural Process: Art of Management, (pp. 146-169). Samara, Russia: Samara Branch of Moscow State University of Service.
• Trompf, G. (2006). Theology: Where to Begin? In Ian Weeks and Duncan Reid (Eds.), A Thoughtful Life: Essays in Philosophical Theology, (pp. 113-133). Adelaide, South Australia: ATF Press.
• Trompf, G. (2004). A Survey Of New Approaches To The Study Of Religion In Australia And The Pacific. In Peter Antes, Armin W. Geertz, Randi R. Warne (Eds.), New Approaches to the Study of Religion: Volume 1; Regional, Critical, and Historical Approaches, (pp. 147-181). Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter.
• Trompf, G. (2004). Cargo Cults. In Christopher Partridge (Eds.), Encyclopedia of New Religions: New Religious Movements, Sects and Alternative Spiritualities, (pp. 271-276). Oxford UK: Lion Hudson Plc.
• Trompf, G. (2004). From The Esoteric To The Exoteric And Back Again. In Edward Fitzpatrick Crangle (Eds.), Esotericism and the Control of Knowledge, (pp. 22-62). Sydney: Department of Studies in Religion, University of Sydney.
• Trompf, G. (2004). On Wondering About Wonder: Melanesians And The Cargo. In J. K. Olupona (Eds.), Beyond Primitivism: Indigenous reliogous traditions and mocernity, (pp. 295-313). New York and London: Routledge imprint of Taylor & Francis.
• Trompf, G. (2002). Easter Island: Site of the First Pacific Cargo Cult. In Giovanni Casadio (Eds.), Ugo Bianchi: Una Vita Per La Storia Delle Religioni, (pp. 441-465). Rome: Il Calamo.
• Trompf, G., Hamel, G. (2001). Introduction. In Not known (Eds.), The world of religions : essays on historical and contemporary issues : in honour of professor Noel Quinton King for his eightieth birthday, (pp. 3-14). Delhi: Indian Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (ISPCK).

Journals

• Trompf, G. (2024). The Shadow of Islam in the Enlightenment Discourse of Oriental Despotism. Journal of the Contemporary Study of Islam, 4(1), 45-53. [More Information]
• Trompf, G. (2023). An Agenda for the Study of the Jesus Letter. Iran and the Caucasus, 27(4-5), 374-384. [More Information]
• Trompf, G. (2023). Auguste Comte's Classification of the Sciences. Knowledge Organization (KO), 50(2), 128-152. [More Information]
• Trompf, G. (2023). Auguste Comte’s Classification of the Sciences. Knowledge Organization (KO), 50(2), 128-152. [More Information]
• Trompf, G. (2023). Review: History, Myth and Legend (S. Fink and R. Rollinger [eds.], 'Conceptualizing Past, Present and Future'; L. Audley-Miller and B. Dignas [eds.], 'Wandering Myths'; H.Haarmann and LaBGC, 'The Hero Cult'). Ancient West and East, 22, 302-304. [More Information]
• Trompf, G. (2022). "Religious Affairs" [Review Article of G. Varounakis et al (eds.), "Popular Religion and Ritual": T.J. Scheer (ed.), "Natur - Religion - Mythos"; and J. Rupke, "Urban Religion"]. Ancient West and East, 21, 302-305. [More Information]
• Trompf, G. (2022). Religion's Origin: Returns to Grand Theory [Review Article of E. Anati, "Origins of Religion" and E.F. Torrey "Evolving Brains"]. Journal of Religious History, 46(4), 776-784. [More Information]
• Trompf, G. (2021). Book review: Daniele Miano, 'Fortuna: Deity and Concept in Archaic and Republican Italy'. Alternative Spirituality and Religion Review, 11(1), 107-109. [More Information]
• Trompf, G. (2021). Book review: Heath Carter: 'Union Made: Working People and the Rise of Social Christianity in Chicago'. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015; Eugene McCarraher: 'The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity'. Cambridge, MA, and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019. Journal of Religious History, 45(1), 175-178. [More Information]
• Trompf, G. (2021). Book review: Islands in the West: Classical Myth and the Medieval and Irish Geographical Imaginations, written by Matthias Egeler. Numen-International Review for the History of Religions, 68(4), 419-420. [More Information]
• Trompf, G. (2021). The Instructions of Melanesian Cargo Cults for the Asia-Pacific Future. Current Research Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, 4(2), 109-121. [More Information]
• Trompf, G. (2021). Ç ÅëëÜäá AíáóôÞèçêå! The Resuscitation of Greece and Ideas of Historical Recurrence. Phronema, 36(1), 67-81. [More Information]
• Trompf, G. (2020). Book review: Benjamin, Geoffrey: 'Temiar Religion, 1964¨C2012: Enchantment, Disenchantment and Re©\Enchantment in Malaysia's Uplands'. Singapore: National University of Singapore, 2014. Journal of Religious History, 44(3), 398-400. [More Information]
• Trompf, G. (2020). Book Review: Jill Roe: 'Searching for the Spirit: Theosophy in Australia', 1879–1939. Adelaide: Wakefield, 2020. Journal of Religious History, 45(2), 361-363. [More Information]
• Trompf, G. (2020). Gnostic islam: Transformations of classic gnostic speculation in muslim thought. Journal for the Academic Study of Religion, 33(2), 119-133. [More Information]
• Trompf, G. (2020). Meeting of Civilization with Archaic and Cargo Cults in Melanesia. Chelyabinskii Gosudarstvennyi Universitet. Vestnik, 5 (439)(56), 21-24. [More Information]
• Trompf, G. (2020). On Recurrence and Retribution as Basic Ideas for Social Sciences and the Humanities. Current Research Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, 3(2), 135-136. [More Information]
• Trompf, G. (2020). Richard Francaviglia: 'The Mapmakers of New Zion: A Cartographic History of Mormonism'. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2015. Journal of Religious History, 44(2), 265-266. [More Information]
• Trompf, G. (2019). Book Review: Albrecht Classen: 'The Forest in Medieval German Literature: Ecocritical Readings from a Historical Perspective, Ecocritical Theory and Practice', vol. 8 Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2015. Journal of Religious History, 43(4), 565-566. [More Information]
• Trompf, G. (2018). Islands, the Humanities and environmental conservation. Environmental Conservation, 45(2), 101-110. [More Information]
• Trompf, G. (2017). Book review: Ruth Skilbeck: The Writer's Fugue: Musicalization, Trauma and Subjectivity in the Literature of Modernity. Newcastle (Australia): Postmistress, 2017. Journal of Religious History, 44(1), 141-142. [More Information]
• Clark, S., Palis, F., Trompf, G., Terway, T., Wallace, R. (2017). Interdisciplinary problem framing for sustainability: Challenges, a framework, case studies. Journal of Sustainable Forestry, 36(5), 516-534. [More Information]
• Trompf, G. (2017). Was the Reformation providential? Considered provocations from uncontrollable materials. Australian Catholic Historical Society. Journal, 38, 118-135.
• Trompf, G. (2015). A Foretaste of Eusebian Panegyricism in the Tenth 'Festal Letter' by St Dionysius (the Great) of Alexandria. Phronema, 30(2), 37-62. [More Information]
• Trompf, G. (2015). Australian Methodist Theological Education and Theologians. Aldersgate Papers, 11, 53-76.
• Trompf, G. (2015). New Religious Movements in Oceania. Nova Religio: journal of alternative and emergent religions, 18(4), 5-15. [More Information]
• Trompf, G. (2013). Ethno-Religious Minorities in the Near East: Some Macrohistorical Reflections with Special Reference to the Zazas. Iran and the Caucasus, 17(3), 321-344. [More Information]
• Trompf, G. (2012). After the Dust has Settled: On Dawkinsian scholarship in The God Delusion. Uniting Church Studies, 18(2), 29-40.
• Trompf, G. (2012). Macrohistory and End-Time Beliefs in New Religious Movements: Un tour d'horizon. Alternative Spirituality and Religion Review, 3(1), 59-109. [More Information]
• Trompf, G. (2011). Durkheim on Original and Aboriginal Religion: Issues of Method. Relegere: Studies in Religion and Reception, 1(2), 263-282. [More Information]
• Trompf, G. (2011). Imagining Macrohistory? Madame Blavatsky from Isis Unveiled (1877) to The Secret Doctrine (1888). Literature and Aesthetics, 21(1), 43-71.
• Nasoraia, N., Trompf, G. (2011). Mandaean Macrohistory. ARAM Periodical, 22(2010), 391-425. [More Information]
• Trompf, G., Nasoraia, N. (2011). Reflecting on the 'Rivers Scroll'. ARAM Periodical, 22(2010), 61-86. [More Information]
• Trompf, G. (2011). The classification of the sciences and the quest for interdisciplinarity: a brief history of ideas from ancient philosophy to contemporary environmental science. Environmental Conservation, 38(2), 113-126. [More Information]
• Trompf, G. (2010). The epistle of Jude, Irenaeus, and the Gospel of Judas. Biblica, 91(4), 555-581.
• Trompf, G. (2005). Isaac Newton and the Kabbalistic Noah: Natural Law Between Mediaevalia and the Enlightenment. Aries: Journal for the Study of Western Esotericism, 5(1), 91-118.
• Trompf, G. (2005). The art of payback. Literature and Aesthetics, 15(1), 195-207.
• Trompf, G. (2002). Introduction I: Long History of Dead Sea Scrolls Scholarship. Journal of Religious History, 26(2), 123-144. [More Information]
• Trompf, G. (2002). La teoria della meraviglia e i cultu del cargo in Melanesia. Religioni e Societa, , 23-46.

Edited Journals

• Trompf, G., Wilson, J. (2019). Diri Journal. Diri Journal, 3. [More Information]

Conferences

• Trompf, G. (2010). Claude Levi-Strauss on the origins of religion. Diversity and Identity: Humanistic Foundations of World Heritage and Multicultural Development, Samara: Samara State Academy of Culture and Arts.
• Ionesov, V., Trompf, G. (2010). Diversity and Identity: Humanistic Foundations of World Heritage and Multicultural Development. Proceedings of International Scientific Conference Dedicated to Memory of Claude Levi-Strauss. Diversity and Identity: Humanistic Foundations of World Heritage and Multicultural Development, Samara: Samara State Academy of Culture and Arts.
• Trompf, G. (2010). On the origins of the western meditation movement. The Inaugural International Samadhi Forum: The Pathway to the Centre - Purity and the Mind, Sydney: Dhammachai International Research Institute.

Reference Works

• Trompf, G. (2024). Ananda Marga. World Religions and Spirituality (WRSP). [More Information]
• Trompf, G. (2023). Comte's classification of the sciences. In Birger Hjorland and Claudio Gnoli (Eds.), ISKO Encyclopedia of Knowledge Organization (IEKO). International Society for Knowledge Organization. [More Information]

Other

• Trompf, G. (2024), Peace building - a perennial project. [More Information]