Dr Enqi Weng

Dr Enqi Weng is a media scholar 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). Her doctoral thesis analysed media representation of religions in Australia, and revealed that public discussions about religion were not only primarily constructed and influenced by white male perspectives, British influences also problematically continued to shape these discussions in post-colonial Australia. Her research interest has since turned towards decolonial/multicultural approaches to the sociological study of religion, where her work interrogates the role that news media play in reinforcing and normalising the racialisation of religion. She is currently a Research Fellow at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation at Deakin University. Occasionally she teaches across media and religious studies units at Deakin.

Religion and media; religious/cultural diversity; religious literacy in journalism; religion and social change; decolonial study of religion

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; race and religion; religious/cultural diversity; religious literacy in journalism; 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 Religion and Ethics, 13 Oct 2020, 'The pandemic has provided fertile conditions for conspiracy theories and “conspirituality” in Australia'

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

The Conversation, 1 May 2020, 'Religious groups are embracing technology during the lockdown, but can it replace human connection?'

Religion, Society and Culture Research Network