The Journal of Religion & Society has been established to promote the cross-disciplinary study of religion and its diverse social dimensions through the publication of research articles, essays and opinions, review articles, and book reviews. The focus of the journal is American religions and Western religious traditions.
The Journal of Religion & Society is a refereed academic journal dedicated to the publication of scholarly research in religion and its diverse social dimensions (ISSN: 1522-5658). All submissions to the journal will be subject to blind peer review.
As an electronic journal taking full advantage of the World Wide Web, the Journal of Religion & Society will incorporate photos, graphics, and other media where appropriate in its articles. Moreover, the journal will publish material on an ongoing rather than a periodic basis, eliminating any backlog between acceptance and publication, and also accelerating the publication of scholarly research.
Each volume of the journal will be limited to material published within a given calendar year. The journal also publishes a Supplement Series (ISSN: 1941-8450) consisting of occasional collections of essays on a particular theme or topic.
Ronald A. Simkins, Ph.D. serves as the journal’s General Editor. The editorial board is comprised of the Faculty Associates of the Kripke Center.
Subscription to the journal is free, and current and back issues of the journal can be accessed online.
A subscription mailing list is provided to notify readers when new material has been published in the journal. In order to receive periodic notification of new published material, send an email message to , with “Subscription” in the subject heading and your email address listed in the body of the message.
Electronic articles in the journal are cited (for example, in a footnote) as follows:
Jane Smith, “Something New About Religion and Society,” Journal of Religion & Society 1 (1999), pars. 3-5 [URL of the article].
Note that the location of material within an article is specified in terms of paragraphs (which are numbered), not pages.
Articles or volumes in the Supplement Series are cited as follows:
John Doe, “A New Idea,” An Interesting Topic in Religion and Society, Journal of Religion & Society Supplement Series 1, edited by Jane Smith (The Kripke Center: 2004; URL of the volume or the article).
The Journal of Religion & Society is indexed in Religious and Theological Abstracts and by the American Theological Library Association (http://www.atla.com) in the ATLA RELIGION DATABASE ®, Religion Index One: Perodicals (RIO®), and Index to Book Reviews in Religion (IBRR®).