Aims & Scope

CRS publishes rigorous comparative and interdisciplinary research that advances understanding of religion across cultures, histories and societies.

Scope

• Comparative religion and comparative theology
• History and philosophy of religion
• Sacred texts, interpretation and intellectual traditions
• Anthropology, sociology and psychology of religion
• Ritual, material religion and lived religion
• Religion, ethics, law, politics and public life
• Interreligious relations, dialogue and conflict transformation
• Secularism, non-religion and new religious movements
• Religion, migration, media, gender and environment
• Indigenous and vernacular religious traditions
• Methods, theory and pedagogy in religious studies

Proselytizing, polemical denigration, unsupported generalizations and work that treats communities or traditions without scholarly care are outside scope.