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. The journal also publishes a Supplement Series (ISSN: 1941-8450) consisting of occasional collections of essays on a particular theme or topic. The journal welcomes proposals for the Supplement Series.

The Journal of Religion & Society will publish its articles in PDF format for maximum access while maintaining pagination and format. The articles may incorporate photos, graphics, and other media where appropriate. Links to web resources are also possible.

The journal will accept submissions on an ongoing basis, and will publish new material twice a year, early in the calendar year and midway through the calendar year. Each volume of the journal will be limited to material published within a given calendar year.

Sabrina Danielsen, Ph.D. (), General Editor.

Ronald A. Simkins, Ph.D. (), Managing Editor.

Cristina Pop (), Associate Editor.

You may also contact the editors and send submissions to .

The editorial board is comprised of the Faculty Associates of the Kripke Center at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, United States:

Ulil Amri, Assistant Professor in Cultural Anthropology

Erin Averett, Professor of Art History and Classical & Near Eastern Studies

Matthew Averett, Professor of Art History

Dulcinea Boesenberg, Associate Professor of Theology

Sherri Brown, Associate Professor of Theology

Susan A. Calef, Assistant Professor of Theology

John C. M. Calvert, Professor of History

J. Jay Carney, Professor of Theology

Theodore Dedon, Assistant Professor of Theology

Daniel DiLeo, Associate Professor and Director of Justice and Peace Studies

Gintaras K. Duda, Professor of Physics

Scotte Eastman, Professor of History

Kevin Estep, Associate Professor of Health Administration and Policy

Julia Fleming, Professor of Theology

Andrew Gustafson, Associate Professor of Business Ethics and Society

Martha Habash, Professor of Classics

H. Ashley Hall, Associate Professor of Theology

Jeffrey P. Hause, Professor of Philosophy

Aimee A. Hein, Assistant Professor of Theology

Bridget Keegan, Professor of English and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences

Thomas M. Kelly, Professor of Theology

Christopher Krall, S.J., Assistant Professor of Theology

Richard Collin Mangrum, Yossem Chair in Legal Ethics, Professor of Law

Nicole L. Reibe, Assistant Professor of Theology

Nicolae Roddy, Professor of Theology

Trish Ross, Assistant Professor in Modern Languages & Literature, Honors Program

Jacob Rump, Associate Professor of Philosophy

Todd Salzman, Professor of Theology

Samantha Senda-Cook, Professor of Communication Studies

Zachary B. Smith, Associate Professor of Theology

The Journal of Religion & Society, its editors and editorial board, and the Kripke Center that publishes the journal make every effort to adhere to the “Principals of Transparency & Best Practices in Scholarly Publishing” as agreed upon by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), among other organizations. Any questions or comments regarding our ethical standards and guidelines should be address to the General Editor. See further the journal’s statement on Publication Ethics.

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), 3–5 [URL of the Volume].

Articles or volumes in the Supplement Series are cited as follows:

John Doe, “A New Idea,” An Interesting Topic in Religion and Society, edited by Jane Smith. Journal of Religion & Society Supplement Series 1, 2004. [URL of the Table of Contents].

The Journal of Religion & Society is indexed in Religious and Theological Abstracts, the ATLA RELIGION DATABASE®, Religion Index One: Perodicals (RIO®), Index to Book Reviews in Religion (IBRR®), RelBib: Bibliography of the Study of Religion, and Index Islamicus. PDFs of articles are preserved on Creighton University's Digital Repository.