Review of Religious Research
Aims & Scope:
The Review of Religious Research (RRR) journal aims to publish manuscripts meeting these six scope criteria: (1) reports empirical research; (2) attends to religiosity and spirituality topics; (3) identifies religious groups and their adherents; (4) engages in interdisciplinary social science research practices; (5) describes methods and analytical techniques; and (6) applies research with relevance for practitioners. Criteria are described below.
Empirical Research
Manuscripts meet the empirical social science research scope criteria by reporting on observable behaviors, actions, orientations, and more of social groups. The goal is to understand and analyze rather than seeking to propagate a religion, proselytize, evangelize, or in other ways directly represent a religious view. Valuing the goal of replicability and peer review, empirical research typically includes a methods section that explains how data were collected, why, using what procedures, under which conditions, and toward what types of analysis.
Relevant Topics – Scroll below for an expanded list of specific topics.For a full list of topics please click here.
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Religious leaders, services, programs, participation, practices, beliefs, organizations, changes, movements
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Religion & civics, family, gender, sex, race, youth, education, science, poverty, crime, attitudes, wellbeing
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Spirituality, spiritual practices, spiritual communities
Applied Practitioners
The journal is particularly interested in publishing applied research with implications for:
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Clergy, pastoral leaders, lay leaders, other religious leaders
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Professionals, staff, volunteers in faith-based organizations, NGOs, INGOS, international networks
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Grantmakers, funders, grant program officers
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Fundraisers, major gifts officers, donor prospect researchers
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Volunteer coordinators, social movement community engagers
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Service providers, program delivery coordinators
Religious Groups
1. Islam, Muslims
2. Buddhism, Buddhists
3. Hinduism, Hindus
4. Judaism, Jewish
5. Confucianism, Confucians
6. Sikhism, Sikhists
7. Daoism, Taoism, Daoist, Taoists
8. Catholicism, Catholics
9. Christianity, Christians
10. Protestantism, Protestants
11. Evangelicalism, Evangelicals
12. Mainline Protestantism, Protestants
13. Pentecostalism, Pentecostals
14. Orthodoxy: Eastern, Catholic, Judaism, Christianity
15. Folk religions: Chinese, African; Ethnoreligious
16. Spiritism, Spiritists
17. Bahá'í, Bahaism, Bahá'ís
18. Jainism, Jainists
19. Shintoism, Shintoists
20. Zoroastrianism, Zoroastrians
21. New religions, new religious movements
22. Atheism, Agnosticism, Atheists, Agnostics
23. Religious unaffiliated, disaffiliated, non-affiliated, or religious “nones”
Interdisciplinar
Valuing multiple approaches in the empirical study of religion, the journal typically publishes research from disciplines such as: sociology, psychology, social psychology, political science, economics.
Methods & Analysis
1. Surveys
2. In-depth interviews
3. Ethnographies
4. Case studies
5. Quantitative analysis
6. Qualitative analysis
7. Content analysis
8. Mixed methods analysis
| Patricia S. Herzog | Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, USA |
| David E. Eagle | Duke University, Durham, NC, USA |
| Gabriel A. Acevedo | Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA |
| Amy Adamczyk | John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, New York, NY, USA |
| Feyza Akova | University of Notre Dame, IN, USA |
| Christopher D. Bader | Chapman University, Orange, CA, USA |
| Joseph O. Baker | East Tennessee State University, USA |
| John P. Bartkowski | University of Texas at San Antonio, USA |
| Kraig Beyerlein | University of Notre Dame |
| Alex Bierman | Department of Sociology, University of Calgary, Canada |
| Matt Bradshaw | Baylor University, Waco, TX, USA |
| R Khari Brown | Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA |
| Tricia C. Bruce | University of Notre Dame, USA |
| Ryan P. Burge | Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL, USA |
| James Cavendish | University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA |
| Deborah L. Coe | Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Chicago, IL, USA |
| Katie Corcoran | West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA |
| Melinda Denton | University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA |
| Di Di | Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA, USA |
| Paul A. Djupe | Dennison University, Granville, OH, USA |
| Erica Dollhopf | Center for Analytics, Research and Data (UCC), Cleveland, OH, USA |
| Christopher Ellison | University of Texas at San Antonio, USA |
| Todd Ferguson | University of Mary-Hardin Baylor, Belton, TX, USA |
| Tom Gaunt | Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., USA |
| Kerby Goff | Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, USA |
| Conrad Hackett | Pew Research Center, Washington, D.C., USA |
| R David Hayward | Ascension St. John Hospital, Detroit, MI, USA |
| Terrence D. Hill | University of Arizona |
| Becky Y. Hsu | Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., USA |
| Jong Hyun Jung | Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea |
| Courtney Ann Irby | Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL, USA |
| Blake Victor Kent | Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CA, USA |
| Mark P. Killian | Whitworth University, USA |
| Kristina I. Lizardy-Hajbi | University of Denver, USA |
| Kyle Longest | Furman University, Greenville, SC, USA |
| Annette Mahoney | Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, PA, USA |
| Nicolette D. Manglos-Weber | Boston School of Theology, Boston, MA, USA |
| Loren Marks | Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, USA |
| Gerardo Martí | Davidson College, Davidson, NC, USA |
| Brandon C. Martinez | Providence College, Providence, RI, USA |
| Matthew May | Oakland University, Rochester, MI, USA |
| Jennifer M. McClure | Samford University, Birmingham, AL, USA |
| Paul K. McClure | University of Lynchburg, Lynchburg, VA, USA |
| Amy D. McDowell | University of Mississippi |
| Stephen M. Merino | Colorado Mesa University, Grand Junction, CO, USA |
| Mark Mulder | Calvin University, Grand Rapids, MI, USA |
| Ann W. Nguyen | Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA |
| Stephen Offutt | Baylor University Institute for Studies of Religion, USA |
| Oneya Okuwobi | University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA |
| Daniel V. A. Olson | Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA |
| Jenell Paris | Messiah College, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA |
| Samuel L. Perry | University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA |
| Miray Philips | University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA |
| Aida Ramos | University of Mary Hardin-Baylor, Belton, TX, USA |
| Roberta Ricucci | University of Torino, Italy |
| Christopher P. Scheitle | West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA |
| Cyrus Schleifer | University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA |
| Landon Schnabel | Cornell University |
| Jason Shelton | University of Texas, Arlington, USA |
| Darren E. Sherkat | Southern Illinois University, USA |
| Corwin E. Smidt | Calvin University, Grand Rapids, MI, USA |
| Jörg Stolz | University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland |
| Lisa Weaver Swartz | Asbury Theological Seminary, Wilmore, KY, USA |
| Kati Tervo-Niemelä | University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland |
| Joel Thiessen | Ambrose University, Calgary, AB, Canada |
| Scott Thumma | Hartford Seminary, Hartford, CT, USA |
| Joshua Tom | Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, WA, USA |
| Jeremy Uecker | Baylor University, USA |
| Laura Upenieks | Department of Sociology, Baylor University, USA |
| Meredith Withnah | Westmont College, USA |
| Patricia Wittberg | SC, Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate, Washington, D.C., USA |
| Stuart A. Wright | Lamar University, Beaumont, TX, USA |
| Xiaohe Xu | The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA |
| Fenggang Yang | Purdue University, USA |
| Miriam Zimmer | Leitung Kompetenzzentrum Pastorale Evaluation, Bochum, Germany |
Manuscript submission guidelines can be accessed on Sage Journals.