Religious Studies: Web Resources

So why launch the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Religion? Why a peer-review journal like this? Why now? Maybe what we should be asking is what took us so long to launch such a journal. For a long time, those of us from communities of color have needed a journal that:





1)challenges the prevailing assumption that the present religious scholarly landscape, rooted in Eurocentric thought, is the pinnacle of academic excellence;


2)gives an epistemological preference to the perspectives emanating from the disenfranchised and dispossessed to raise issues concerning which type of engaged praxis we should employ;


3)moves beyond the false assumption that religious perspectives constructed by Euroamericans are normative;


4)creates a space where religious scholars of color can study their oppression, and that of their communities, as a network of interdependent histories;


5)deconstructs the false walls that separate natural allies; and


6)explores how our separate marginalized communities are complicit with disenfranchising other groups of people.

sociology of religion, counseling psychology, social work, and cultural studies. JCR encourages articles dealing with childhood, youth, adolescence, and young adulthood, recognizing that these terms operate differently in a variety of cultural contexts. The journal welcomes original scholarship by recognized experts in their respective fields, but also seeks submissions from junior scholars

through cyberspace. We invite submissions on these and related topics, such as faith and video games, global connectedness and religious communities, online pedagogies and religious education, divisions created by technology use, religious attitudes toward technological innovation, ecology and sustainability, nanotechnology, genetic technology, and more.