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Christopher Hartney is a senior lecturer in the Discipline of Studies in Religion where he studies and teaches the myths of modernity, religion and violence, civil religion, and new religious systems. His main research focus is on new religions in East Asia and Vietnam in particular. Presently he is working on translations of major texts from the new Vietnamese indigenous religion of Caodaism. A former editor of Literature and Aesthetics and the prestigious Journal of Religious History, Chris has also edited numerous scholarly editions and has published over 50 peer-reviewed papers. His latest publication (edited with Daniel J. Tower) was Religious Categories and the Construction of the Indigenous for Method and Theory in the Study of Religion (Brill, 2017).
Studies in Religion, School of Humanities (SOH)
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The opportunity ID for this research opportunity is 3188