Journals

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Australian Religion Studies Review
Australian Religion Studies Review is the leading peer-reviewed journal of the Pacific region dealing with all aspects of the academic study of religion. http://www.equinoxpub.com/ARSR

Culture and Religion
Culture and Religion is an interdisciplinary journal seeking an engagement between scholars working across a range of disciplinary fields, including anthropology, cultural studies, critical theory and gender studies, and postcolonial studies

Fieldwork in Religion
Fieldwork in Religion is an internationally peer reviewed, interdisciplinary journal. The journal publishes articles, review essays and book reviews relevant to the theoretical engagement with and practical undertaking of fieldwork in religion. http://www.equinoxjournals.com/FIR/index

Folklore
- Virtual Special Issue: Death, Burial and the Afterlife http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/access/rfol-death.pdf
- Virtual Special Issue: Folklore, Religion and Contemporary Spirituality http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/explore/rfol-religion-spirituality.pdf

History of Religions
History of Religions strives to publish scholarship that reflects engagement with particular traditions, places, and times and yet also speaks to broader methodological and/or theoretical issues in the study of religion. Toward encouraging critical conversations in the field, HR also publishes review articles and comprehensive book reviews by distinguished authors. http://www.jstor.org/page/journal/historyreligions/about.html

Journal for Culture and Religious Theory
This journal is a peer-reviewed journal devoted to both the disciplinary and interdisciplinary scholarship. http://www.jcrt.org/

Journal of Men, Masculinities and Spirituality
Journal of Men, Masculinities and Spirituality (JMMS) is an online, scholarly, peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal. JMMS is published twice a year with provision for other special editions. http://www.jmmsweb.org/

Journal of Religion and Society
The journal promotes the study of religious groups and beliefs among the various peoples of the world, past and present, with emphasis on American religions and the Western religious traditions. http://moses.creighton.edu/JRS/

Journal of Religion In Europe
The peer-reviewed Journal of Religion in Europe (JRE) provides a forum for multi-disciplinary research into the complex dynamics of religious discourses and practices in Europe, both historically and contemporary. The Journal’s underlying idea is that religion in Europe is characterized by a variety of pluralisms. http://www.brill.nl/journal-religion-europe

Journal of Religion in Japan
The peer-reviewed Journal of Religion in Japan (JRJ) constitutes a venue for academic research in the complex and multifaceted field of Japanese religion. The Journal takes into consideration Japanese religious phenomena through their historical developments and contemporary evolution both within and outside of Japan. It explores the interplay between religion and society, religion and culture, religion and media.  http://www.brill.nl/jrj

Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture (JRMDC)
This journal was launched in 2012. It provides reviews, papers, links and much more on religion, media and digital culture. http://jrmdc.com/

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
This journal is a multi-disciplinary journal that publishes articles, research notes, and book reviews on the social scientific study of religion. Published articles are representative of the best current theoretical and methodological treatments of religion. http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0021-8294&site=1

Journal of Contemporary Religion
www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjcr20/current

Journal of Religion and Popular Culture
The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture is a web-based, peer-reviewed journal committed to the academic exploration, analysis and interpretation, from a range of disciplinary perspectives, of the interrelations and interactions between religion and religious expression and popular culture, broadly defined as the products of contemporary mass culture. http://www.usask.ca/relst/jrpc/

Journal of the American Academy of Religion
This international quarterly journal publishes top scholarly articles that cover the full range of world religious traditions together with provocative studies of the methodologies by which these traditions are explored. http://jaar.oxfordjournals.org/content/current

Marburg Journal of Religion
http://www.uni-marburg.de/fb03/ivk/mjr?language_sync=1

Material Religion
Material Religion is an international, peer-reviewed journal which seeks to explore how religion happens in material culture. http://www.bergpublishers.com/BergJournals/MaterialReligion/tabid/517/Default.aspx

Method & Theory in the Study of Religion
Method & Theory in the Study of Religion (MTSR) publishes articles, notes, book reviews and letters which explicitly address the problems of methodology and theory in the academic study of religion. http://www.brill.nl/method-theory-study-religion

Nordic Journal of Religion and Society
Nordic Journal of Religion and Society (NJRS) is an arena for all disciplines that study the field of relations between religion, churches, religious institutions, culture and society. NJRS is the only Nordic journal devoted to these issues. Sociology of religion is a key discipline, but NJRS also includes contributions from scholars in psychology of religion, religious studies, church history and theology. http://www.tapirforlag.no/njrs/

Nova Religion
Nova Religio presents scholarly interpretations and examinations of emergent and alternative religious movements. Original research, perspectives on the study of new religions, literature reviews, and conference updates keep scholars well informed on a wide range of topics. http://ucpressjournals.com/journal.php?j=nr

Numen
Numen (NU) publishes papers representing the most recent scholarship in all areas of the history of religions ranging from antiquity to contemporary history. It covers a diversity of geographical regions and religions of the past as well as of the present. http://www.brill.nl/numen

Temenos
Temenos is the journal of the Finnish Society for the Study of Religion. The journal was founded in 1965 as a joint-publication with the learned societies of Comparative Religion in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden to promote the research and communication of ideas between scholars. Temenos publishes scholarly articles, academic discussions, conference reports and book reviews within the field of the study of religion and culture. http://www.sus.utu.fi/temenos_en.html

The Journal of Religion
The Journal of Religion is one of the publications by which the Divinity School of The University of Chicago seeks to promote critical, hermeneutical, historical, and constructive inquiry into religion. http://www.jstor.org/page/journal/jreligion/about.html


Religion
RELIGION is an internationally recognized peer-reviewed journal, publishing original scholarly research in the comparative and interdisciplinary study of religion. It is published four times annually: two regular issues; and two special issues (or forums) on focused topics, generally under the direction of guest editors. http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/622940/description

Religious Studies
Religious Studies is an international journal devoted to the problems of the philosophy of religion as they arise out of classical and contemporary discussions and from varied religious traditions. http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=RES

Sociology of Religion
Sociology of Religion, the official journal of the Association for the Sociology of Religion, is published quarterly for the purpose of advancing scholarship in the sociological study of religion. http://socrel.oxfordjournals.org/


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