Dr Enqi Weng

Enqi Weng is a media academic and sociologist of religion. She completed her PhD in the School of Media and Communications at RMIT University in 2018 and has since published her monograph 'Media Perceptions of Religious Changes in Australia: Of Dominance and Diversity' (Routledge, 2020). She is currently a Research Fellow on these projects:

- ARC Discovery ‘Religious diversity in Australia: Strategies to
maintain social cohesion’

- ARC Linkage 'Mapping Social Services in Multicultural Cities'

- (and Co-Investigator) INSBS '(Con)spirituality, Science and the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia: Material and Digital Practices' 

She also teaches across media and religious studies units at Deakin. 

Religion and media; religious/cultural diversity; religious literacy and education; religion and social change; the sociological sacred

Australian Association for the Study of Religion (AASR)
International Society for the Sociology of Religion (SISR/ISSR)
International Society for Media, Religion and Culture (ISMRC)
The Australian Sociological Association (TASA)

ACX701 Communication Concepts

ALC215 Global Media

ASR300 - Religion, Rights and Governance

ASR200 Religion, Spirituality and Popular Culture

Religion and media; religious/cultural diversity; religious literacy and education; religion and social change; the sociological sacred

Reviews Editor, Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture

Co-Convenor, Religion Thematic Group, The Australian Sociological Association (TASA)

Communications Officer, Australian Association for the Study of Religion (AASR)

ABC RN God Forbid, 16 May 2020, 'Does the media 'get' religion?'

The Conversation, 13 Oct 2020, 'The pandemic has provided fertile conditions for conspiracy theories and “conspirituality” in Australia'

Religion, Society and Culture Research Network