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The White Lotus, fashionable Buddhism and the Western malaise: How season three navigates “spiritual complexity”. Halfoff, Anna and Hauw, Samantha. 2024. ABC Religion and Ethics. 16 April 2025. Access here.
Students Week panel, and are pious students doing better at school? Anna Halafoff interviewed by Andrew West. ABC Radio National, 10 April 2025. Access here.
Girl Mossing, Rotting, and Resistance: Relational Naturalism and Dying Well Together. Gould, Hannah and Halafoff, Anna. Religions. 2025. Volume 16, Issue 4, 447. Access here.
Once “taboo”, menopause is now being discussed openly – but not all voices are included. Halaffof, Anna. 2024. ABC Religion and Ethics. 20 December. Access here.
Special Issue on (Non)religion, spirituality and multispecies relations. Halafoff, Anna, Harris, Racheal and Beaman, Lori. 3 September. 2024. Social Compass, as Volume 71, Issue 3. Access here.
Riotous methodological and methodointuitive reflections on (non)religion, spirituality and the multispecies turn. Halafoff, Anna, Yunkaporta, Tyson, Hancock, Rosemary and Harris, Racheal. Social Compass. 2024. Volume 71, Issue 3, 482-501. Access here.
Toward equality: Including non-human animals in studies of lived religion and nonreligion. Beaman, Lori G. and Strumos, Lauren. Social Compass. 2024. Volume 71, Issue 3, 406-424. Access here.
38% of Gen Z Australians identify as spiritual and half of them believe in karma. Why is spirituality so popular? Halafoff, Anna & Shorter, Rosie. 2024. The Conversation. 29 May. Access here.
Decolonising studies of religion in so-called Australia: Truth-telling, collective reflections and future trajectories. Halafoff, Anna, Shorter, Rosie Clare, Weng, Enqi, Paradies, Yin, Abur, William and Winarnita, Monika. 2024. Journal of Intercultural Studies, 1-19. Access here.
Religious Diversity in Australia: Living well with difference. Ezzy, Douglas, Halafoff, Anna, Barton, Greg and Banham, Rebecca (eds). 2024. Bloomsbury Publishing. (Includes chapters by SWell Members Anna Halafoff, Ruth Fitzpatrick and Enqi Weng). Access here.
Good karma? Taylor Swift and popular Buddhism in pop music. Gould, Hannah. 2024. ABC Radio National. 22 February. Access here.
What does it mean to be clean? Rane, Halim, Shorter, Rosie Clare, Whitaker, Robyn. 2024. God Forbid. ABC Listen. 16 February. Access here.
Cool Christianity: Hillsong and the fashioning of cosmopolitan identities. Rocha, Cristina. 2024. Oxford University Press. Access here.
Divinity, Hospitality and the Posthuman in 21st Century Literature. McAvan, Emily. 2024. Bloomsbury Publishing. Access here.
Dying well: Why Australians are turning to ‘Buddhish’ deaths. Gould, Hannah and Halafoff, Anna. 2024. The Guardian. 8 February. Access here.
When death falls apart: Making and unmaking the necromaterial traditions of contemporary Japan. Gould, Hannah. 2023. The University of Chicago Press. More here.
New Age ‘Conspiritualism’ focus of new Australian research as young people turn away from religion. Halafoff, Anna. 2023. 29 December. Interviewed by Erin Pake. ABC News. Access here.
Spirituality, with Andrew Singleton. Singleton, Andrew. 2023. 15 December. Interviewed by Rosie Hancock and Alexis Hieu Truong. Uncommon Sense Podcast. Access here.
How grace changes everything. Halafoff, Anna. 2023. 14 December. Interviewed by Meredith Lake. Soul Search, ABC RN. Access here.
Many Faiths. Halafoff, Anna and Yunkaporta, Tyson. 2023. 21 November. Interviewed in Believing In Australia, ABC TV. Available here.
Special Report: Stealing Indigenous Voices in Australia (w/Tyson Yunkaporta). Yunkaporta, Tyson. 2023. 8 October. Interviewed by Matthew Remski. Conspirituality Podcast. Access here.
Right Story, Wrong Story: Adventures in Indigenous thinking. Yunkaporta, Tyson. 2023. Text Publishing, Melbourne, Australia. Access here.
Tales from the Other Australia: Lanterns for the dead, and the persistence of Buddhism in the Far North. Halaffof, Anna, Smith, Sue and Gould, Hannah. 2023. 5 September. The Age. Access here.
The Future of Religion – digital utopias and spiritual imagination. Halafoff, Anna and Gould, Peter. 2023. 24 August. Interviewed by Marilyn Lake. Soul Search. ABC Listen. Access here.
Spiritual complexity in Australia: Wellbeing and risks.
Halafoff, Anna, Singleton, Andrew and Fitzpatrick, Ruth. 2023, Social Compass. Access here.
Buddhism in the Far North of Australia pre-WWII: (In)visibility, post-colonialism and lived religion.
Halafoff, Anna, Lam, Kim, Rocha, Cristina, Weng, Enqi and Smith, Sue. 2022. Journal of Global Buddhism. Access here.
Introduction to the Special Issue: (Con)spirituality, science and COVID-19. Halafoff, Anna, Weng, Enqi, Roginski, Alexandra and Rocha, Cristina. 2022. Journal for the Academic Study of Religion 35(2), 133-140. Access here.
Selling (Con)spirituality and COVID-19 in Australia: Convictions, complexity and countering dis/misinformation
Halafoff, Anna, Marriott, Emily, Fitzpatrick, Ruth and Weng, Enqi. 2022. Journal for the Academic Study of Religion 35(2), 141-167. Access here.
The Body as Evidence of Truth: Biomedicine and enduring narratives of religious and spiritual healing. Roginski, Alexandra and Rocha, Cristina. 2022. Journal for the Academic Study of Religion 35(2), 168-191. Access here.
Imagination and the Sacred. McCredden, Lyn. 2022. In (eds) Jason Goroncy & Rod Pattenden. Imagination in an Age of Crisis: Soundings from the Arts and Theology (n.p.): Wipf & Stock Publishers. 174. Access here.
Worldview complexity: The challenge of intersecting diversities for conceptualising diversity. Bouma, Gary; Halafoff, Anna & Barton, Greg. 2022. Social Compass 69(2), 186–204. Access here.
Worldviews complexity in COVID-19 Times: Australian media representations of religion, spirituality and non-religion in 2020. Halafoff, Anna, Marriott, Emily; Smith, Geraldine, Weng, Enqi and Bouma, Gary. 2021, Religions, vol. 12, no. 9, pp. 1-21, doi: 10.3390/rel12090682. Access here.
Freedoms, Faiths and Futures: Teenage Australians on religion, sexuality and diversity. Singleton, Andrew, Halafoff, Anna, Rasmussen, Mary Lou and Bouma, Gary. 2021. First ed., Bloomsbury Academic, London, England. Access here.
Australian Spirituality: Wellness, Wellbeing and Risks.
A/Prof Anna Halafoff, Prof Cristina Rocha, Dr Tyson Yunkaporta, Prof Andrew Singleton, Prof Paul Bramadat, Prof Mar Griera, Prof Lori Beaman. Australian Research Council Discovery Project 2023.
Buddhism in Australia: Wellbeing, Belonging and Social Engagement. Dr Juewei Shi, A/Prof Anna Halafoff, Prof Cristina Roch, Dr Kim Lam, A/Prof Sue Smith, Hsing Yun Education Foundation 2023.
‘Dying ‘Buddhish’ Australia’. A/Prof Anna Halafoff (Deakin) is a co-investigator in a new project led by Dr Hannah Gould (University of Melbourne). It is one of six innovative projects funded by the Contemplative Studies Centre.
Australian Young People’s Perspectives on Religious and Non-religious Worldviews. A/Prof Mary Louise Rasmussen, Prof Gary Bouma, Prof Andrew Singleton, A/Prof Anna Halafoff. Australian Research Council Discovery Project 2016. View here.
Religious diversity in Australia: Strategies to maintain social cohesion. Prof Douglas Ezzy, Prof Gary Bouma, Prof Greg Barton, A/Prof Anna Halafoff, Dr Lori Beaman, Prof Robert Jackson. View project website here.
(Con)spirituality, Science and the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia: Material and Digital Practices. A/Prof Anna Halafoff, Prof Cristina Rocha, Dr Enqi Weng, Prof Andrew Singleton, Dr Alexandra Roginski, Dr Ruth Fitzpatrick Emily Marriott. View the Special Issue here.