RESEARCH
RECENT PUBLICATIONS AND MEDIA
CURRENT/RECENT GRANTS AND PROJECTS
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. 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 & Bouma, Gary 2021, Worldviews Complexity in COVID-19 Times: Australian Media Representations of Religion, Spirituality and Non-Religion in 2020, 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 Disdovery 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 the project website 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 the 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.
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