Hot Dogma, released on 1 October 1990, is the second full-length album by anonymous Australian band TISM. It was their major label debut on Phonogram Records, which peaked in the top 100 on the ARIA Albums Chart. The title comes from a joining of the two phrases hot dog, a food, and dogma, a specific religious belief. An additional disc, Hot Dogma - The Interview Disc was added to initial sales copies and contains live responses by TISM to an unheard DJs questions.

Due to its large amounts of tracks, recurring themes between tracks, and the culmination of TISM's rock period occurring on the album, it is said by some to be the best TISM album although many argue that their breakthrough 1995 release Machiavelli and the Four Seasons is their best.

Originally released on vinyl in 1990, the later released CD and cassette versions had more tracks than the original LP version. The version released in Collected Recordings 1986-1993 (1995) had fewer tracks than any previous.

The varying track listings is due to TISM not liking the album. Humphrey B. Flaubert stated "No, no, I didn’t like Hot Dogma. I wince when I hear it", continuing that "it did have some good lyrics on it. I just hated the quintessentially 1980s music on it. I’ve always thought that TISM has always been unfashionably – to our own detriment at times – sort of not sounding like anyone else. And sometimes that sort of sheer dagginess... that album... because...." [1]

Not finishing the thought, the conclusion was later drawn that guitarist at the time, Leek Van Vlalen, was to blame for the sound of the album as, according to Ron Hitler-Barassi, "he was making us look bad".

"ExistentialTISM" and "Get Thee in My Behind, Satan" were played live as early as 1988 - a live version of the former appears on the band's live VHS Shoddy and Poor the year earlier, while a version of the latter was released as an iTunes bonus track for the band's previous album, Great Truckin' Songs of the Renaissance, in 2009. "The TISM Boat Hire Offer" was played live in Queensland in 1989 and appears on a bootleg of the performance. Pus of the Dead was first recorded in December 1982 for the band's unreleased tape Great Truckin' Songs of the Renaissance, however a different version appears on the band's self-titled demo tape in 1985. "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Whittle Away My Furniture" was recorded in 1985 for the tape Muggy Climates in My Jockettes - that version appears on the bonus demo disc included with the group's greatest hits album Best Off in 2002. Most of the other songs appear on two tapes, Free Nelson Mandela - With Every Record and Three Blake and a Dollar's Worth of Chips - A Song of Innocence and Experience, recorded throughout 1988.

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