Journals
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South and East Asian Religions Collection
Welcome to the subscription hub for the South & East Asian Religions supplementary collection, part of the Equinox Religion Library.Our South & East Asia Collection concentrates on those distinctively East, South Asian or Indic religions of Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism and Jainism and also includes studies of these religions in diaspora, their reception in the West, as well as emerging or “established” new religions in the region. It also includes material on other, non-Indic religious traditions and communities such as Islam, Christianity, Indigenous traditions and historical and contemporary inter-religious contact and change in the region.The material on this site is included free of charge as part of an institution's subscription to the main South & East Asia Collection. For more information about the SEA Collection please visit the Equinox Religion Library site here. -
Theory, Method & Special Topics Collection
This site amalgamates articles and book chapters from various Equinox journals and books all of which deal with the topic of theory and method in the study of religion or which provide a range of case studies on a specific domain in the academic study of religion. The emphasis is on theories of religion and methodologies for the study of religion. It is a supplement to the Theory, Method and Special Topics Collection of the Equinox Religion Library.
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Archaeology of Food and Foodways
Archaeology of Food and Foodways is an international refereed journal showcasing original scholarly work on the dynamics between food and culture, food and environment, and shifts in foodways over time, covering time periods from prehistory through the 19th century. More about the journal.
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Body and Religion
Body and Religion is an internationally peer reviewed, interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of all manner of ancient and contemporary practices, concerns, ideals, and connections or disconnections between body and religion. Essays and analyses are capable of being delivered on a multi-media platform, assisting in examining performances, rituals, and other topics that are not easily captured in print.
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Buddhist Studies Review
Buddhist Studies Review is published by Equinox on behalf of the UK Association for Buddhist Studies. The Association was founded in 1996 and two years later took over publication of Buddhist Studies Review, which had been run since 1983 by Russell Webb and Sara Boin-Webb. Membership in the Association includes a subscription to the journal among other benefits.You can join the Association through the membership pages on their website.
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Bulletin for the Study of Religion
The Bulletin began life in 1971 as the CSSR Bulletin. The journal publishes articles that address religion in general, the history of the field of religious studies, method and theory in the study of religion, and pedagogical practices. The Bulletin is unique in that it offers a forum for various academic voices to debate and reflect on the ever-changing state of the field, and insofar as it encourages scholars continually to engage meta-level questions at the leading edge of inquiry. Read more about the journal.
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Comparative Islamic Studies
Comparative Islamic Studies aims to advance research on Islam through comparisons between Islam and other religions, and between religious and non-religious factors and disciplines. Regarding Islam and other religions, CIS extends the scope of comparisons of Islam and Islamic Scripture from the traditional focus on Judaism and Christianity to include religions of Antiquity, Africa, South- and South East Asia, China, Oceania, Europe and the Americas, as well as contemporary new religious movements, spirituality and the various types of esotericism. Read more.
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Essays in the Philosophy of Humanism
Essays in the Philosophy of Humanism published scholarly papers concerning philosophical, historical, or interdisciplinary aspects of humanism, or that deal with the application of humanist principles to problems of everyday life. It ceased publication at the end of 2017.
ISSN (online): 2052-8388
ISSN (print):1522-7340
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Fieldwork in Religion
The journal publishes articles, review essays and book reviews relevant to the theoretical engagement with and practical undertaking of fieldwork in religion. Submissions are welcome from any disciplinary perspective, theoretical paradigm or methodological approach. Read more about the journal.
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Forensic Archaeology, Anthropology and Ecology
Forensic Archaeology, Anthropology and Ecology (formerly Archaeological and Environmental Forensic Science) is a journal that specialises in the inter-relationship between forensic anthropology, forensic archaeology and environmental forensic science in terms of research and forensic practice. More about the journal. -
Health and Social Care Chaplaincy
Health and Social Care Chaplaincy is a multidisciplinary forum for research and discussion relating to the delivery of pastoral and spiritual care across various settings: acute, paediatric, mental health, aged care, palliative care, paramedics, police, detention, military, welfare, industry and other community settings. Learn more.
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Implicit Religion
This international journal offers a platform for scholarship that challenges the traditional boundary between religion and non-religion and the tacit assumptions underlying this distinction. It invites contributions from a critical perspective on various cultural formations that are usually excluded from religion by the gatekeeping practices of the general public, practitioners, the law, and even some scholars of religion.
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Indigenous Religious Traditions
EDITORS
Seth Schermerhorn, Hamilton CollegeMarie Alohalani Brown, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
Launched in 2023, Indigenous Religious Traditions is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes papers representing the most recent scholarship in all areas of the study of Indigenous religious traditions.
This journal strives for increasingly global perspectives, with representation of peoples and traditions from all continents, covering diverse geographical regions and including traditions of the past as well as of the present. We are concerned with the interface between the disciplines of Indigenous studies and religious studies, Indigenous religious traditions and modernity, colonial and postcolonial conditions, and local and global forces that shape the practice of Indigenous traditions and their categorizations. We are particularly interested in interdisciplinary approaches to the study of Indigenous Peoples and religious traditions, emphasizing Indigenous methodologies among other humanities and social science approaches.
Indigenous Religious Traditions also includes papers that discuss important theoretical, methodological, and conceptual innovations in the study of religion and reflective studies on disciplinary histories.
The journal publishes book reviews as well as review articles.
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International Journal for the Study of New Religions
The term “New Religions” can be defined in several ways. The journal -- and its affiliated association, the International Association for the Study of New Religions, -- have chosen to adopt a broad definition and welcome material reflecting a broad range of disciplines and approaches. Read more about the journal.
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Interreligious Studies and Intercultural Theology
The journal provides a forum for scholars to share ideas and research on a wide range of topics to do with interreligious questions and issues impacting contemporary pluralist society, and to foster a deeper understanding of theoretical and practical matters concerning interreligious relations. Read more about the journal.
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Jazz Research Journal
The journal aims to represent a range of disciplinary perspectives on jazz, from ethnography to film studies, sociology to cultural studies, and offers a platform for new thinking on jazz. In this respect, the editors particularly welcome articles that challenge traditional approaches to jazz and encourage writings that engage with jazz as a discursive practice. More about the journal.
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Journal for the Academic Study of Religion
JASR Aims and Scope
The Journal for the Academic Study of Religion publishes research that engages any topic, tradition, or methodology in the study of religion. As a generalist journal, we prioritize high-quality submissions that communicate effectively across disciplinary boundaries.
Historically, the journal has been an important venue for scholarship on religion in the Southern Hemisphere. As we have developed an increasingly international orientation, this Antipodean legacy has led us to develop a distinctive interest in the significance of place.
In the open section of the journal, we will continue to publish interdisciplinary scholarship on religion in any geographical area. In addition, we welcome submissions for an ongoing section of the journal – ‘Thinking Religion in Place’ – which addresses the way place shapes the methods and materials of religious studies.
Thinking Religion in Place
Through the articles published in this ongoing, themed section, we hope to cultivate a scholarly conversation that explores answers to the question: What is the significance of place – including the scholar’s own location – to the study of religion?
We think about place in two ways. Most immediately, place points to the scholar’s situatedness in a location with historical, cultural, and geographical particularities. More broadly, place prompts us to consider the way this situatedness impacts the production of knowledge, shaped as it is by the global politics of place. We invite scholars to reflect critically both on their place on larger maps, and also on the impact of local and international forces on the phenomena that interest them.
Because the concept of ‘religion’ is deeply marked by the (modern, European) places in which it developed, we want to be clear that we take ‘thinking religion’ in its most capacious sense. This includes the study of recognized religious traditions, nonreligious thought and practice, spirituality (within and beyond religious communities), and the critical study of religion as a category of analysis.
For more information about this themed section and our broader interest in place, see the Editorial Statement.
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Journal of the British Association for the Study of Religions
JBASR publishes articles that address religion, the disciplinary history of religious studies and articles that advance empirical research and/or theoretical and methodological avenues of enquiry.
The journal began life in as DISKUS, a pioneering electronic format journal distributed on disk. In 1993 it became part of The Internet Journal of Religion hosted by Marburg University and moved to the British Association for the Study of Religions (BASR) in 2005. It moved to Equinox in 2025.
BASR members receive a subscription to the journal as part of membership which includes access to all backlist issues. Join BASR at their website https://basr.ac.uk/
ISSN: 2516-6379 (Online)
Publication: Annual
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Journal for Research into Freemasonry and Fraternalism
Ceased publication in 2019.
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Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion
Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion is the official journal of the International Association for the Cognitive and Evolutionary Sciences of Religion (IACESR). The Association was founded in 2006 and since then has sponsored a number of international collaborative projects and biennial conferences.
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Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture
The Journal of Religion, Nature and Culture, which has been published quarterly since 2007, explores through the social and natural sciences the complex relationships among human beings, their diverse 'religions' (broadly and diversely defined) and the earth's living systems, while providing a venue for analysis and debate over what constitutes an ethically appropriate relationship between our own species and the environments we inhabit. Read more.
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Journal of Cognitive Historiography
The Journal of Cognitive Historiography is the first peer-reviewed publication for research concerned with the interactions between history, historiography, and/or archaeology and cognitive theories. More about the journal.
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Journal of Contemporary Archaeology
The Journal of Contemporary Archaeology is the first dedicated, international, peer-reviewed journal to explore archaeology’s specific contribution to understanding the present and recent past. It is concerned both with archaeologies of the contemporary world, defined temporally as belonging to the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, as well as with reflections on the socio-political implications of doing archaeology in the contemporary world. More about the journal.
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Journal of Film Music
The Journal of Film Music is a forum for the musicological study of film from the standpoint of dramatic musical art. The analytical tools and methodologies of historical, systematic, cognitive, and ethnomusicology all are relevant and essential to this study, which seeks to both document and illuminate film practice through source studies, analysis, theory, and criticism. More about the journal.
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Journal of Glacial Archaeology
The Journal of Glacial Archaeology encompasses all topics concerning archaeological discoveries from glacial, permafrost, polar and high‐altitude frozen contexts across the world and presents the latest discoveries and research from frozen sites. More about the journal.
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Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology
Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology is the only journal currently published that deals with the entire multicultural world of Mediterranean archaeology. The journal publishes material that deals with, amongst others, the social, politicoeconomic and ideological aspects of local or regional production and development, and of social interaction and change in the Mediterranean. More about the journal.
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Journal of Islamic Archaeology
The Journal of Islamic Archaeology is the only journal today devoted to the field of Islamic archaeology on a global scale. The term refers to the archaeological study of Islamic societies, polities, and communities, wherever they are found. It may be considered a type of “historical” archaeology, in which the study of historically (textually) known societies can be studied through a combination of “texts and tell”. More about the journal.
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Journal of Skyscape Archaeology
The Journal of Skyscape Archaeology (JSA) is concerned with the role and importance of the sky in the interpretation of the material record. Currently, elements of this study can be found separately in the disciplines of archaeoastronomy, archaeology, cultural astronomy, anthropology and history. JSA brings them together under the aegis of a new academic journal in order to promote cross-fertilization towards an understanding of the cosmologies of the societies who constructed and used the rich archaeological heritage we study today. More about the journal.
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Journal of World Popular Music
This journal publishes research and scholarship on international popular musics, also known as World Music, Global Pop, World Beat or, more recently, World Music 2.0, providing a forum to explore the manifestations and impacts of post-globalizing trends, processes, and dynamics surrounding these musics today. It adopts an open-minded perspective, including in its scope any local popularized musics of the world, commercially available music of non-Western origin, musics of ethnic minorities, and contemporary fusions or collaborations with local ‘traditional’ or ‘roots’ musics with Western pop and rock musics. More about the journal.
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PentecoStudies
PentecoStudies offers a distinctly interdisciplinary forum for the study of Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity. Authors from the social sciences, the humanities, cultural studies, religious studies and theology are all welcome. Read more about this journal.
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Perfect Beat
Perfect Beat first appeared in July 1992 and has been published by Equinox since 2009.
The journal's name derived from Afrika Bambaata and the Soul Sonic Force's 12-inch, 1983 single Looking for the Perfect Beat. As befits a journal originating in Australia, the journal remains focused on the popular music of the 'Pacific rim' and includes historical and contemporary studies with contributions invited from popular music studies, musicology, cultural studies and ethnomusicological perspectives. More about the journal. -
Petits Propos Culinaires
Petits Propos Culinaires (PPC) was founded in 1979 by Alan Davidson, editor of the Oxford Companion to Food and his wife, Jane, also a food historian, aided by a circle of friends including Elizabeth David, Richard Olney, Claudia Roden, Jane Grigson, Harold McGee, and Elisabeth Lambert Ortiz. PPC quickly became the UK's pre-eminent food history periodical. Davidson edited the journal until 2000 when he was succeeded by Tom Jaine who retired in 2023, succeeded in turn by Sam Bilton. The journal moved to Equinox in January, 2024.
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Popular Music History
News from the forthcoming Editors, Beate Peter and Patryk Galuszka
As we thank the outgoing editors-in-chief, Catherine Strong and Shane Homan for their six years of dedicated service, we would like to take this opportunity to outline our vision for the journal’s future. A change in editorship often brings a temptation to radically overhaul a journal’s direction. However, recognizing the journal's strong track record, we propose only minor, evolutionary changes.Popular Music History has already distinguished itself by publishing articles from diverse regions, including Eastern Europe, Indonesia, and Portugal. We aim to continue this trend while upholding the high editorial standards set by our predecessors. We also acknowledge the significance of decolonization in popular music historiography and the importance of addressing representation in music history. To further enhance geographic diversity, we encourage submissions and special issue proposals from scholars in underrepresented regions.
In addition, we invite high-quality contributions exploring the history of technologies related to popular music production, distribution, and reception. Topics might include the role of digital media in shaping popular music narratives, innovative creative methods, and the impact of AI on songwriting practices. This focus could attract scholars from adjacent fields, such as the history of technology or economic history, broadening the journal’s interdisciplinary reach and enhancing its citation impact.
We remain open to new ideas, special issue proposals, and other innovative collaborations with the global community of popular music scholars. Any quality submission addressing the broadly defined history of popular music, irrespective of its geographic origin, will receive due consideration. To ensure a smooth transition, the four editors will collaboratively produce a special issue on the theme of popular music and violent conflict. Please refer to the attached Call for Papers for further details. Learn more about this journal.
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Postscripts: The Journal of Sacred Texts, Cultural Histories, and Contemporary Contexts
This journal is devoted to the academic study of scripture around the globe and is the official journal of SCRIPT, the Society for Comparative Research on Iconic and Performative Texts. It deals with the rich panoply of engagements with texts that are foundational in the lives of individuals and communities around the world -- texts that travel under the name of 'scripture' or 'sacred' text. It aims to open up the discussion of sacred texts by crossing traditional boundaries, bringing different disciplinary tools to the process of analysis, and opening up a sustained dialogue between and among scholars and others who are interested in religion, textuality, media and mediation and the contemporary world. Learn more about this journal.
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Pomegranate
Pomegranate is the first International, peer-reviewed journal of Pagan studies. It provides a forum for papers, essays and symposia on both ancient and contemporary Pagan religious practices. The Pomegranate also publishes timely reviews of scholarly books in this growing field.
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Queensland Review
Published in association with Griffith University, Queensland Review is a multi-disciplinary journal of Australian Studies which focuses on the history, literature, culture, society, politics and environment of the state of Queensland. Queensland’s relations with the Asia-Pacific region are a particular focus of the journal, as are international comparative studies. The journal is interested in research that examines the regional and global contexts of Queensland studies. In addition to scholarly articles, Queensland Review publishes commentaries, interviews, and book reviews.
Please note: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are advised that issues of this journal may contain images, voices and names of deceased people.
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Religions of South Asia
RoSA publishes papers by internationally respected scholars on some of the most vibrant and dynamic religious traditions of the world. It includes the latest research on distinctively South Asian or Indic religions - Hindu, Jaina, Buddhist and Sikh - religions which continue to influence the patterns of thought and ways of life of millions of people. Learn more about this journal.
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Religious Studies and Theology
For forty years Religious Studies and Theology has published thoughtful, peer-reviewed original research with significance to the inter-related disciplines of Religious Studies and Theology. Learn more.
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Communication and Medicine
Editor
Srikant Sarangi Aalborg University, Denmark
Since its inception in 2004, Communication & Medicine has been consistently interrogating the `black box’ of what is routinely characterised as `the communicative turn’ in healthcare practice in clinical and public health domains. It is now firmly established as a leading forum for these critical debates.
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East Asian Pragmatics
East Asian Pragmatics (EAP) focuses on language use and interpersonal interaction within and across East Asian cultures, including national cultures such as Chinese, Japanese and Korean, as well as ethnic minority, regional and other localised cultures, communities of practice, relational networks and other groupings including diasporic communities. Read more.
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Gender and Language
Gender and Language offers an international forum for language-based research on gender and sexuality from feminist, queer, trans and nonbinary perspectives. The journal showcases research on the social analytics of gender in discourse domains that include institutions, media, politics and everyday interaction. Read more about the journal.Metrics
Journal Impact Factor: 1.3 (Clarivate Analytics, 2022 data)
5 Year Impact Factor: 1.3 (Clarivate Analytics, 2022 data)
H-Index 2022: 15
CiteScore 2022: 2.9 more details
SNIP 2022: 0.877
SJR 2022: 0.446
Qualis CAPES tier 2
Ranked #115 out of 1001 journals in the Language and Linguistics category (top 88th percentile) and #43 out of 190 in the Gender Studies category (top 77th percentile) (ranking from 2022 CiteScore) -
International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law
The International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes articles on any aspect of forensic language, speech and audio analysis. Read more about the journal.
Metrics
Journal Impact Factor: 0.44 (Clarivate Analytics, 2021 data)
Eigenfactor Score: 0.000070 (Clarivate Analytics, 2020 data)H-Index 2021: 30
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CiteScore 2023: 0.8
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Journal of Language and Discrimination
The Journal of Language and Discrimination provides a multidisciplinary platform to broadcast important social issues, focusing on the close relationship between many forms of discrimination and social (in)equality and language. The journal publishes multidisciplinary yet inclusive research of a high scholarly standard, not published or under consideration elsewhere, and with a strong empirical component.
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Journal of Monolingual and Bilingual Speech
This journal studies human speech in all its manifestations. The average person in today's world speaks at least one native language in its standard and/or dialectal forms and speaks at various levels of proficiency at least one more language that is acquired simultaneously or consecutively in instructional or immersion settings. The term speech is used here to mean oral rather than written language and is an umbrella term to refer both to the physical aspects of the ability to speak/communicate as well as the cognitive aspects involved in the human linguistic faculty. Gestural (sign) language, i.e., the language of manual communication is known to display, by and large, the same fundamental properties as spoken language, and as such is a type of speech. More about the journal.
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Languages in Global Contexts
Languages in Global Contexts (LGC) addresses current issues in theoretical, descriptive and applied linguistics and discourse analysis, set within global contexts. While the English language in its many varieties around the world no longer reflects any specific geography or identity, linguistics has remained rooted in affluent western perspectives. LGC explores these issues and problems through systemic functional linguistics, and through other sophisticated contemporary theories and methods, publishing a broad range of voices, experiences and realities from around the world. Learn more.
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Mediation Theory and Practice
Equinox ceased publishing this journal in 2022. For all enquiries, please contact admin@mediationpublishing.com.
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Sociolinguistic Studies
This journal takes an ecumenical approach to the different schools, methodological principles or research orientations within sociolinguistic research and also accepts contributions from related fields such as pragmatics, discourse analysis, conversational analysis, interactional linguistics, language acquisition and socialization, linguistic anthropology, ethnomethodology and the ethnography of communication. Papers may examine any issue in sociolinguistic research and occasionally papers are accepted for publication in Spanish, Galician, Portuguese, French or Italian (90% of the contents are in English). Read more.
