Journals for the Scientific Study of Religion /
Religionswissenschaftliche Zeitschriften

- with the exception of explicit theological and highly specialized journals -

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The libraries of your university eventually offer access to these journals.

1. General Journals

Australian Religion Studies Review (Equinox Publishing)
Editors: Kathleen McPhillips, Adam Possamai (both University of Western Sidney)

History of Religions (University of Chicago Press)
Editors: Wendy Doniger, Matthew Kapstein, Bruce Lincoln, Jonathan Z. Smith (all University of Chicago, Divinity School)

Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion (E-Journal)
Managing Editor: William H. Swatos, Jr.

Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory (E-Journal)
Executive Editor: Victor E. Taylor (York College of Pennsylvania / The Johns Hopkins University)

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion  (Blackwell Publishing)
Editor: Rhys Williams (University of Cincinnatti)

Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies (E-Journal)
Editor: Seminarul de Cercetare a Religiilor si Ideologiilor (Universitatea Babes Bolya, Cluj, Romania) & SACRI

Journal of Contemporary Religion (Routledge)
Editors: Peter B. Clark (Wolfson College, Oxford, UK), Elisabeth Arweck (University of Warwick, UK)

Journal of Religious History  (Blackwell Publishing)
Editors: Nicholas Doumanis (University of New South Wales, Sidney), Nicholas Eckstein (University of Sidney)

Journal of Ritual Studies (University of Pittsburgh)
Editors: Pamela J. Stewart, Andrew Strathern (University of Pittsburgh)

Journal of the American Academy of Religion (Oxford University Press)
Editor: Charles Mathewes (University of Virginia)

Marburg Journal of Religion (E-Journal)
Editors: Michael Pye (Universität Marburg, Germany), Peter Antes (Universität Hannover), Andreas Grünschloß (Universität Göttingen)

Nova Religio - the Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions (University of California Press)
Editors: Douglas E. Cowan (University of Waterloo, Canada), Rebecca Moore (San Diego University, USA), Catherine Wessinger (Loyola University, New Orleans)

Numen - International Review for the History of Religions (Brill Academic Publishers)
Executive Editors: Einar Thomassen (University of Bergen, Norway) and Gustavo Benavides (Villanova University, USA)

Religion (Elsevier)
Editors: Tom Ryba (Purdue University), Robert Segal (Lancaster University, UK)

Revue de l'Histoire des Religions (Armand Colin)
Editor: Charles Amiel (Collège de France, Paris)

Zeitschrift für junge Religionswissenschaft (E-Journal)
Editors: Steffen Führding, Ronald Pokoyski (both Universität Hannover, Germany), Alexander Rödel (Universität Marburg, Germany)

Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte (Brill)
Editor: Julius H. Schoeps (Universität Potsdam, Germany)

Zeitschrift für Religionswissenschaft (Diagonal Verlag)
Managing Editor: Christoph Auffarth (Universität Bremen)

2. Religion & Society

Fieldwork in Religion (Equinox Publishing)
Editors: Christopher Partridge (University of Chester, UK), Ron Geaves (University of Wolverhampton)

Journal of Media and Religion (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah/NJ)
Editors: Daniel A. Stout (University of South Carolina), Judith M. Buddenbaum (Colorado State University)

Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion (Indiana University Press)
Editors: Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza ( Harvard Divinity School), Stephanie Y. Mitchem (University of South Carolina), Melanie Johnson-DeBaufre ( Drew University)

Journal of Law and Religion (Hamline University, School of Law)
Editors: Huge Editorial Board

The Journal of Religion and Film (E-Journal)
Editor: William L. Blizek (University of Nebraska, Omaha, USA)

Journal of Religion and Health (Springer Netherlands)
Executive Editor: Kathryn Madden (Blanton-Peale Institute, New York)

Method & Theory in the Study of Religion  (Brill Publishers)
Editor: Jeffrey C. Ruff (Marshall University, USA)

Online - Heidelberg Journal for Religions on the Internet (E-Journal)
Editor: Gregor Ahn (Universität Heidelberg, Germany)

Religious Studies (Cambridge University Press)
Editor: Peter Byrne (King's College, London)

Religioni e Società Rivista di Scienze Sociali della Religione (Firenze University Press)
Editor: Arnaldo Nesti (Centro Internazionale di Studi sul Religioso Contemporaneo, Firenze, Italy)

Sociology of Religion
Editor: David Yamane (Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, USA)

3. Religious Study - partly Theology / Philosophy

Anthropos (Anthropos Institute, St. Augistin, Germany)
Editor: Othmar Gächter (Anthropos Institute, St. Augistin, Germany)

ILU - Revista de Ciencias de las Religiones
Editor: Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Implicit Religion (Equinox Publishers)
Editor: Edward Bailey (Bangor University of Wales, UK)

International Journal for Philosophy of Religion (Springer)
Editor: Eugene Thomas Long (University of South Carolina)

International Journal of Education and Religion (Springer)
Editor: Chris A.M. Hermans (University of Nijmegen, Netherlands)

Journal of Religion (University of Chicago Press)
Editors: W. Clark Gilpin, Paul Mendes-Flohr, William Schweiker (all Divinity School, University of Chhicago)

Religiologiques - Sciences Humaines et Religion (Presses de l'Université du Québec)
Editor: Jacques Pierre (l'Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada)

Reviews in Religion and Theology (Blackwell Publishing)
Editor: Ian Markham (Hartford Seminary)

Review of Religious Research (E-Journal)
Editor: Patricia Wittberg (Indiana University, Indianapolis, USA)

Revue d'Histoire et de Philosophie Religieuses  (l'Association des Publications de la Faculté de Théologie Protestante de Strasbourg)
Editor: Matthieu Arnold (Université de Strasbourg)

Zeitschrift für Missionswissenschaft und Religionswissenschaft (Verlag der Benediktinermönche von St. Ottilien)
Editor: Mariano Delgado (Universität Freiburg, Swiss)

Zygon - Journal of Religion and Science (Blackwell)
Editor: Philip Hefner (Metanexus Institute, Philadelphia), Karl E. Peters

4. Certain Religious Traditions

AJS Review (Cambridge University Press)
Editors: Martin S. Jaffee (University of Washington, Seattle), Hillel J. Kieval (Washington University in St. Louis)

Comparative Islamic Studies (Equinox Publishers)
Editor: Brannon M. Wheeler (United States Naval Academy, Annapolis)

ISIM Review (International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World)
Editor: International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (Leiden, The Netherlands)

Islam. Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Kultur des islamischen Orients (de Gruyter, Berlin)
Editors: Lawrence I. Conrad (Universität Hamburg, Germany), Jürgen Paul (Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany)

Japanese Journal of Religious Studies (Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture)
Editor: Paul L. Swanson (Nanzan University, Nagoya, Japan)

Journal of Islamic Studies (Oxford University Press)
Editor: Farhan Ahmad Nizami (Oxford Center for Islamic Studies)

Journal of Religion in Africa (Brill Publishers)
Executive Editor: Brad L. Weiss (College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia)

Journal of Southern Religion (E-Journal)
Editors: Randall J. Stephens (Eastern Nazarene College, Quincy, USA) et al.

Religion and American Culture (University of California Press)
Editors: Philip Goff, Stephen J. Stein, (both Indiana/Purdue University, Indianapolis), Peter Williams (Miami University, Ohio)

Welt des Islams (Brill)
Editor: Stefan Reichmuth (Universität Bochum, Germany)

Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft (Harrassowitz Verlag)
Editor: Florian C. Reiter (Humboldt Universität, Berlin)

5. Miscellaneous

Archive for the Psychology of Religion / Archiv für Religionspychologie (Brill)
Editors: Jacob A. Belzen, Leslie J. Francis and Ralph W. Hood, Jr.

International Journal for the Psychology of Religion (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah/NJ)
Editors: Raymond F. Paloutzian (Westmont College, USA), Dirk Hutsebaut (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium), Kathleen V. O'Connor University of London, United Kingdom)