Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion

Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion is no longer published by The Berkeley Electronic Press. This page is maintained for archival purposes. For the current issue, visit http://www.religjournal.com.

Aims & Scope

IJRR aims to establish and sustain a very high quality interdisciplinary journal in order to help shape and encourage the growing new interest in religion in the various social sciences. The journal seeks original, previously unpublished articles of major significance within any of the social scientific disciplines: anthropology, economics, history, political science, religious studies, social psychology, and sociology.

Mission: Unfortunate accidents of history separated the social sciences into an archipelago of fields and departments. Efforts to break through these artificial barriers by publishing interdisciplinary journals have been handicapped because these publications have conferred less prestige to authors than have the best journals focused on a single field, and because length limits have made some of the most basic and important articles published by these journals difficult for nonspecialists to appreciate fully.

No more. By paying a substantial fee to its authors (see Policies below) and by extensive advertising and publicity campaigns, IJRR is rapidly becoming highly visible. By publishing very important and readable articles it will quickly command respect. Being an on-line journal, IJRR can publish articles of substantial length, which allows its editors to encourage and assist scholars to include the additional explanations, definitions, and details that will make their work fully accessible to those in other areas. IJRR will not accept articles of that address issues only within a narrow specialty; it seeks articles of significant interest to scholars of religion across the social sciences: anthropology, economics, history, political science, religious studies, social psychology, and sociology.