Religious Studies Review
Dados do Periódico
| Tipo | JOURNAL |
|---|---|
| Editora | Wiley (GB) |
| ISSN | 0319-485X / 1748-0922 |
| Scopus | 28953 |
| OpenAlex | S83308807 |
| MAG | 83308807 |
| Site | https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/17480922 |
| Total de publicações | 4.746 |
| Período coberto | 1975 - 2025 |
| País | GB |
| Idioma | EN |
| Indexação | Scopus |
| Citada por | 35 |
| Fator de impacto | 0.073 |
| SJR | 0.144 (Q2) |
| SNIP | 0.437 |
| CiteScore | 0.3 |
| Índice h | 2 |
| Índice i10 | 1 |
| Participação feminina na autoria | 28.6% |
Religious Studies Review is dedicated to religious studies. Religious studies and the sociology/anthropology of religion are explicitly listed as related areas, ensuring regular anthropological intersection
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My Response to the Reviews of The Life and Legacy of Guru Hargobind
Reverberations of Ga Tradition in the Secular State of Ghana
“A veil made of fire”
The Cultural Bible and Its Discontents
Editor’s Introduction to Drudgery Divine at 35
DRUDGERY DIVINE: ON THE COMPARISON OF EARLY CHRISTIANITIES AND THE RELIGIONS OF LATE ANTIQUITY. By Jonathan Z. Smith. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1990. Pp. xvi + 147. Paperback, $30.00. In my years associated with the Religious Studies Review, editors have often voiced regret that we have failed to reflect on and celebrate scholars of significance when they shuffle off this mortal coil. I appreciate the sentiment. Without overindulg…
“Lovingly, not legalistically”
REPRESENTING GOD: CHRISTIAN LEGAL ACTIVISM IN CONTEMPORARY ENGLAND. By Méadhbh McIvor. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020. Near the end of Representing God: Christian Legal Activism in Contemporary England, legal anthropologist Méadhbh McIvor suggests that her interlocutors at the congregation of Christ Church and among the staff of Christian Concern/Christian Legal Centre (CLC) undertake neither a “straightforward embrace” nor an “outri…
What Is This All About? An Appreciative but Puzzled Response to Newman’s Publishing Wisdom
MANGO TREE: THE ARTISTRY AND ALCHEMY OF WRITING. By Carey C. Newman. Chester Heights, PA: Friendship Press, Inc., 2023. Pp. 124. Hardcover, US$ 29.00. First, let me say, with all the others contributing to this symposium, what an honor and pleasure it is to be responding to Carey Newman’s extraordinary little book, Mango Tree, his unique distillation of many years of accumulated wisdom about the art of writing and publishing. Anyone who has worke…
An Author’s Response to Without a Prayer Reviewers
Newman’s Mango Tree
Retooling the Study of Religion by Rectifying Our Bias Toward the “Unique”
DRUDGERY DIVINE: ON THE COMPARISON OF EARLY CHRISTIANITIES AND THE RELIGIONS OF LATE ANTIQUITY. By Jonathan Z. Smith. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1990. Pp. xvi + 147. Paperback, $30.00. Yes, Jonathan Z. Smith’s Drudgery Divine continues to be relevant today ... His insights into the nature of ritual, the concept of “religion,” and the ways in which scholarly approaches can shape our understanding of religious practices offer a criti…
It’s All Connected
WITHOUT A PRAYER: RELIGION AND RACE IN NEW YORK CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS. By Leslie Beth Ribovich. New York: New York University Press, 2024. Pp. vii + 241. Paperback, $30.00. Whenever I talk about my developing book project on religion and education, I feel like the famous meme from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, in which a wild-eyed Charlie stands before a whiteboard covered with conspiracy theory string: It's all connected! Many of us who write…
Disciplining Histories
A Clash of Laws
REPRESENTING GOD: CHRISTIAN LEGAL ACTIVISM IN CONTEMPORARY ENGLAND. By Méadhbh McIvor. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020. In England, the Church of England is the state church, yet many Christians still see themselves as a persecuted minority in a “hostile world” (25). One very real reason behind this self-understanding is a recognition of the ways “in which the law’s preference for establishment Anglicanism gives way to a universal ‘ri…
The Paradox of Publishing a Good Book
MANGO TREE: THE ARTISTRY AND ALCHEMY OF WRITING. By Carey C. Newman. Chester Heights, PA: Friendship Press, Inc., 2023. Pp. 124. Hardcover, US$ 29.00. Scholars struggle when we write. We want to achieve fluid prose in our argumentation, and we ask ourselves: Is this the right word, the most apropos turn of phrase, the most cohesive line of argumentation, the right tone? We also struggle with various intensities of imposter syndrome. A nagging inn…
Reformation, Revolution, Renovation
Crossing and Questioning Boundaries
PRACTICALLY RELIGIOUS: WORLDLY BENEFITS AND THE COMMON RELIGION OF JAPAN. By Ian Reader and George J. Tanabe. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1998. Pp. xi + 303. THE WEAVING OF MANTRA: KŪKAI AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF ESOTERIC BUDDHIST DISCOURSE. By Ryūichi Abé. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. Pp. xviii + 593. THE IMPACT OF BUDDHISM ON CHINESE MATERIAL CULTURE. By John Kieschnick. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. Pp. vi…
Learning Something
LEE EDELMAN AND THE QUEER STUDY OF RELIGION. Edited by Kent L. Brintnall, Rhiannon Graybill, and Linn Marie Tonstad. London: Routledge, 2024. Pp. 280. Hardback, $160.00. BAD EDUCATION: WHY QUEER THEORY TEACHES US NOTHING. By Lee Edelman. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. Pp. 368. Paperback, $28.95. SEX, OR THE UNBEARABLE. By Lauren Berlant and Lee Edelman. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014. Pp. 168. Paperback, $24.95. NO FUTURE: QUEE…
Navigating Crafted Landscape
LIFE: THE NATURAL HISTORY OF AN EARLY CHRISTIAN UNIVERSE. By Catherine Michael Chin. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2024. Pp. viii + 246. Paperback, US$ 29.95. A photograph does not do justice to Anselm Kiefer's textured Nigredo that consumes the viewer in the barren, charred German landscape.1 By incorporating a variety of materials, starting with a photograph mounted on canvas, and overlaid with oil, acrylic, emulsion, shellac, an…
The Limits of Vocabulary
NEW FACES OF GOD IN LATIN AMERICA: EMERGING FORMS OF VERNACULAR CHRISTIANITY. By Virginia Garrard. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. x + 289. Cloth, $110.00. WORLD CHRISTIANITY AND INDIGENOUS EXPERIENCE: A GLOBAL HISTORY, 1500–2000. By David Lindenfeld. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 415. Hardcover, $110.00. Paperback, $39.99. THE CHURCH OF THE DEAD: THE EPIDEMIC OF 1576 AND THE BIRTH OF CHRISTIANITY IN THE AMERICAS. By…
Landmarks in Digital Religion
RELIGION ON THE INTERNET: RESEARCH PROSPECTS AND PROMISES. . Edited by Jeffrey K. Haddon and Douglas E. Cowan. Greenwich, CT: JAI, 2000. Pp. 300. RELIGION AND CYBERSPACE. . Edited by Morten Hojsgaard and Margit Warburg. London: Routledge, 2005. Pp. 224. Paperback, $54.99. WHEN RELIGION MEETS NEW MEDIA. By Heidi Campbell. London: Routledge, 2010. Pp. 232. Paperback, $54.99. DIGITAL RELIGION, SOCIAL MEDIA, AND CULTURE: PERSPECTIVES, PRACTICES, AND …
American Deconversion
Polyphony and Unfinality
Mind Reading as a Cultural Practice
A Scholar on Trial
SECRETS, LIES, AND CONSEQUENCES: A GREAT SCHOLAR'S HIDDEN PAST AND HIS PROTÉGÉ'S UNSOLVED MURDER. By Bruce Lincoln. New York: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. x + 190. Hardcover, $29.95. Mircea Eliade is, without any doubt, a name known to researchers in the field of religion. Works such as Patterns in Comparative Religion, The Sacred and the Profane, The Myth of the Eternal Return, Yoga: Immortality and Freedom, or Shamanism: Archaic Technique…
Constructing Otherness
INTERPRETING ANTISEMITISM: STUDIES AND ESSAYS ON THE GERMAN CASE. By Shulamit Volkov. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023. Pp. v + 253. Hardcover, $114.99. Antisemitism is among the most enduring and complex social phenomena in European history, shaping and reflecting the theological, ideological, and political currents of the societies in which it manifests. Germany, as the epicenter of both modern antisemitic thought and the Holocaust, provides a particul…
Buddhist Ethics
Sectarianism and Secularization
God as Form
Early Christianity and Society
Rudolf Otto and India
Foundations of Christian Faith
Recent Trends in the Study of Southern Religion
Character and the Christian Life
Mircea Eliade
Character, Vision, and Narrative
On Human Nature
George Grant and Religious Social Ethics in Canada
“Master of the Stray Detail”
The Study of Islam
The Making of Late Antiquity
The Analogical Imagination
The Genesis of Secrecy
Current Research on Religious Conversion
Religion in French America
New Testament Ethics
Inmemory Ofhera Feminist Theological Reconstruction of Christian Origins
The Debate Continues
Michel Foucault and the Study of Religion
Notes on Recent Publications
Notes on Recent Publications