Studies in Critical Research on Religion provides a venue for scholars engaged in critical research on religion. This includes studies contributing to our understanding of how religious institutions and thought may simultaneously serve as a source of domination and progressive social change. We seek to analyze the historical and economic conditions giving rise to religious systems while recognizing that religious ideas can be motivational and therefore dialectically related to material conditions. We are interested in the role that religion plays within social and political conflicts. A critical perspective recognizes that its own intellectual heritage lies within the confluence of various religious, political, and philosophical traditions. It does not reject this heritage but critically self-reflects on its relationship to it.
This peer-reviewed book series invites proposals for and submissions of monographs and edited volumes from scholars across all academic disciplines. Works can use a wide range of methodologies, including quantitative, qualitative, and historical. While encouraging works to be theoretical driven by a critical perspective, it is also interested in empirical research which is theoretically guided.
Series Editor Warren S. Goldstein,
Center for Critical Research on Religion, USA
Editorial Board Christopher Craig Brittain,
University of Toronto, Canada Heather Eaton,
Saint Paul University, Canada Titus Hjelm,
University of Helsinki, Finland Lauren Langman,
Loyola University Chicago, USA George Lundskow,
Grand Valley State University, USA Kenneth G. MacKendrick,
University of Manitoba, Canada Andrew M. McKinnon,
University of Aberdeen, UK Sara Pike,
California State University, Chico, USA Dana Sawchuk,
Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
Advisory Board William Arnal,
University of Regina, Canada Roland Boer,
University of Newcastle, Australia Jonathan Boyarin,
Cornell University, USA Jay Geller,
Vanderbilt University, USA Marsha Hewitt,
University of Toronto, Canada Michael Löwy,
National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France Eduardo Mendieta,
Stony Brook University, USA Rudolf J. Siebert,
Western Michigan University, USA Rhys H. Williams,
Loyola University Chicago, USA