Academic Journal
Q1Critical Research on Religion
About Critical Research on Religion
Critical Research on Religion is a scholarly journal published by SAGE Publications Ltd. SCImago 2025 lists it in Q1, with an SJR of 0.25 and H-index of 19.
Coverage: 2013-2026. Research categories: Religious Studies (Q1).
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Topics in published research
Religion and Society Interactions; Religion, Society, and Development; Islamic Studies and History; Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology; American Constitutional Law and Politics; Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies.
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3,650.00 USD; 2,676.00 GBP
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Book Review: Visions of a Sane Society: Fromm and Critical Theory for a Free, Democratic, and Sustainable Future LundskowGeorgeLangmanLauren, Visions of a Sane Society: Fromm and Critical Theory for a Free, Democratic, and Sustainable Future. London: Routledge, 2026. ISBN 978-1-0410-4990-6, pp. 301, $57.99.
Dustin J. Byrd
2026-09-29 · DOI: 10.1177/20503032261493487Can Clergy Be Religious Without Supernatural Belief? Rethinking Secularity Through Religious Naturalism
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2026-09-29 · DOI: 10.1177/20503032261493473Book Review: The Not So Outrageous Idea of a Christian Sociology ScimeccaJoseph, The Not So Outrageous Idea of a Christian Sociology. New York: Routledge. 2024. ISBN 978-1032360171, pp. lx+153, $46.39.
Gaurav J. Pathania
2026-09-29 · DOI: 10.1177/20503032261493486Cultural anxiety and re-imagining ethnic heritage in post-Soviet Georgia: The case of dis-appearing Armenians in Telavi
Anton Popov
2026-06-11 · DOI: 10.1177/20503032261451240“You Must Protect the Blessing”: Evangelical Chaplaincy and the Governance of Migrant Farm Labor
Laura Beth Bugg
2026-06-10 · DOI: 10.1177/20503032261451243“My God Doesn’t Have a Gender”: Trans And Non-Binary Persons’ Religious Experiences in the US South
Brady McLean, Elizabeth Rahilly
2026-06-10 · DOI: 10.1177/20503032261451235What Does the Jewish Left Want?
Shaul Magid
2026-06-09 · DOI: 10.1177/20503032261451237Faith, Community, and Resilience: Gazan Women’s Coping Strategies During Genocide
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2026-08 · DOI: 10.1177/20503032261451232Book Review: A Review of Redefining Spiritual Spaces in the Age of Technology: Innovations and Pitfalls GuentherStacey K.LiXiaoanScheidtMichelle A. (eds.), Redefining Spiritual Spaces in the Age of Technology: Innovations and Pitfalls. Switzerland: Springer Nature, 2025, ISBN: 978-3-031-93435-3 [print], 978-3-031-93436-0 [eBook], DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-93436-0, pp. vii + 237, Open access.
Ratan Sarkar, Guriya Sharma
2026-08 · DOI: 10.1177/20503032261451242Book Review: Psychological Themes in Classical Islamic Literature: A Primary Source Reader KeshavarziHoomanElzamzamyKhalidAnsariBilal AliZaidiAamir Azhar (eds.) Psychological Themes in Classical Islamic Literature: A Primary Source Reader. Leiden: Brill, 2025. ISBN 978-90-04-72519-5, pp. xvi+269, hbk, $119.00; pbk, $59.00.
Yaqeen Sikander
2026-08 · DOI: 10.1177/20503032261451233Inclusion or exclusion?: Tech workers’ views on religion in the tech workplace in China and the United States
Di Di
2026-08 · DOI: 10.1177/20503032261451231Introduction: Religion and Science in Sociological Perspective: Assessing Their Relationship
Alex D J Fry, Gustavo Morello
2026-08 · DOI: 10.1177/20503032261451247Book Review: Why the Church? Self-Optimization or Community of Faith JoasHans. Why the Church? Self-Optimization or Community of Faith. Translated by Alex Skinner. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024. ISBN 978-1-503-63822-8, pp. xii+184, hbk, $25.00.
Neslihan Bilge
2026-08 · DOI: 10.1177/20503032261451244Mapping Religious and Spiritual Comfort Worldwide: Demographic Patterns Across 22 Countries
Dorota Weziak-Bialowolska, Richard G. Cowden, Jason Paltzer, Piotr Bialowolski et al.
2026-05-22 · DOI: 10.1177/20503032261451246In memoriam
2026-04 · DOI: 10.1177/20503032261439556The weaponization of antisemitism
Warren S Goldstein
2026-04 · DOI: 10.1177/20503032261435612Thus spoke the stone women, Ahalya and Galatea : A comparative study of classical myths and their modern feminist retellings by Kavita Kane and Madeline Miller
Himanshi Shinde, Mamta Anand
2026-04 · DOI: 10.1177/20503032261416050Imaginative encounters: Turkish neo-Ottomanist dreams in the Balkans and the Muslim minorities
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2026-02-17 · DOI: 10.1177/20503032261416049Ruined performativity, (post-) imperial illusions: Rum liturgies at the Panagia Paramythias/Vlach Saray church in Istanbul
Christina Banalopoulou
2026-02-11 · DOI: 10.1177/20503032261416045They are just like us: Animal ethics in the Sunni Qur’anic commentary tradition
Ismail Lala
2026-02-11 · DOI: 10.1177/20503032261416047Reviews
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