Sites & Scholars

Links to blogs, Open Access journals/resources and to info on selected scholars of religion:

Blogrole (Suggestions? Contact me.)

Twitter @sjengler

• Cathy Guttierrez’ Blog – Focus on Spiritualism and teaching.
• Continuum Religious Studies – News on conferences & books plus guest posts.
• Craig Martin – Brief book reviews and comments @cmartinrel
• Creative Reading (Wouter J. Hanegraaff) – Books, leaning toward Western Esotericism.
• Critical Religion
• Genealogy of Religion: Exploration in Evolution, Anthropology and History (Cris Campbell)
• Heterodoxology (Egil Asprem) – Books and issues, leaning toward Western Esotericism.
• The Immanent Frame
• Invocatio (Sarah Veale) – Issues and miscellany, leaning toward Western Esotericism.
• Marginalia Review of Books (“A review of books in history, theology & religion”)
• Material Religions (“Exploring the material basis of religious traditions”)
• Musing on Technology, Religion and Academia (Knut Melvær) @kmelve
• Omega Alpha / Open Access – advocate for open access academic publishing in religion and theology (Gary Daught) @OAopenaccess
• Pearls of Wisdom (advice blog about graduate school and academic job search/promotion processes) @ProfessorIsIn
• Religion and Other Curiosities (Peter Berger)
• Religion Bulletin (Bulletin for the Study of Religion)
• Religion Dispatches
• The Religious Studies Project
• Sightings (Martin Marty Center blog)
• Terranaut Blog (Bron Taylor) – Religion, nature, culture @BronTaylor
• Western Culture and Counter-Culture (Wouter Hanegraaff) – Notes toward a new book @WJHanegraaff

Open Access Religious Studies Journals (* student journals)

• Approaching Religion (ISSN: 1799-3121) Finland: English
• Arquivo Maaravi: Revista Digital de Estudos Judaicos da UFMG (ISSN 1982-3053) Brazil: Portuguese, English, Spanish
• Cahiers d’Études du Religieux – Recherches interdisciplinaires (CER-RI) France: French (ISSN 1760-5776) France
• Correspondences: Online Journal for the Academic Study of Western Esotericism (ISSN 2053-7158) UK: English
• Cultura y Religión: Revista de Sociedades en Transición (ISSN 0718-4727) Chile: Spanish
• DISKUS [British Association for the Study of Religions] (ISSN 2175-5841) UK: English
• Electronic Journal of Vedic Studies (ISSN 1084-7561) USA: English
• Hispania Sacra : Revista de Historia Eclesiástica (ISSN 1988-4265) Spain: Spanish, English, Portuguese, Italian, French
• Horizonte: Revista de Estudos de Teologia e Ciências da Religião (ISSN 2175-5841) Brazil: Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, English
• Ilorin Journal of Religious Studies (IJOURELS) (ISSN 2141-7040) Nigeria: English
• * Intermountain West Journal of Religious Studies (ISSN 2155-1723) USA: English
• Japanese Journal of Religious Studies (ISSN 0304-1042) Japan: English
• Journal of Buddhist Ethics (ISSN 1076-9005) USA: English
• Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory (ISSN 1530-5228) USA: English
• The Journal of Global Buddhism (ISSN 1527-6457) USA: English
• Journal of the International Association for Bon Research (ISSN 2291-8663) Canada: English
• Journal of Religion & Film (ISSN 1092-1311) USA: English
• Journal of Religion and Popular Culture (ISSN 1703-289X) Canada: English
• Journal of Religion and Society (ISSN 1522-5658) USA: English
• The Journal of Southern Religion(ISSN 1094-5253) USA: English
• Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies (ISSN 1583-0039) Romania: English, Romanian
• Journal of World Christianity (ISSN 1943-1538) USA: English
• Marburg Journal of Religion (ISSN 1612-2941) Germany: all languages
• Melilah: Manchester Journal of Jewish Studies (ISSN 1759-1953) UK: English
• Online – Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet (ISSN 1861-5813) Germany: English
• Parallelus (ISSN 2178-8162) Brazil: Portuguese
• PLURA – Revista de Estudos de Religião (ISSN 2179-0019) Brazil: Portuguese, Spanish, English
• Religião e Sociedade (ISSN 1984-0438) Brazil: Portuguese, Spanish
• Relegere: Studies in Religion and Reception (ISSN 1179-7231) New Zealand: English
• Religion and Gender (ISSN 1878-5417 ) Netherlands: English
• Religions (ISSN 2077-1444) Switzerland: English
• REVER: Revista de Estudos da Religião (ISSN 1677-1222) Brazil: English, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German
• Revista Brasileira de História das Religiões (ISSN 1983-2850) Brazil: Portuguese, Spanish
• Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines (ISSN 1768-2959) France: French, English, Spanish, Italian
• Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary Journal (ISSN 1209-9392) Canada: English
• *Zeitschrift für junge Religionswissenschaft (ZjR) (ISSN 1862-5886) Germany: German, English

General Open Access Resources

• Open Library of Humanities (OLH)
• Directory of open Access journals (DOAJ)
  • Directory of open access journals in religion
• OAIster search (Worldcat)
• SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online) – primarily Latin American journals
• JURN.org – “the free search-engine for open full-text arts & humanities journal articles”
• Open Access Publishing in European Networks (OAPEN) – tracks and catalogues European open access books in the arts and humanities.
• Open Access Theses and Dissertations (OATD) – “aims to be the best possible resource for finding open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world”
• Intute: Humanities – high quality resources on the Internet (stopped updating in mid-2011 due to lack of funding)
• Directory of open access books in religion
• Hathi Trust – e-books
• Internet Archive – e-books and texts
• British Library (EThOS) – search PhD theses from the UK with free registration
• Search institutional repositories
  • Intute (UK)
  • RIAN (Ireland)
  • Driver (UK and Europe)
  • TROVE (Australia)
  • AuseSearch (Australia)
  • CARL (Canada)
  • ROAR – lists repositories globally

Scholars of Religion

This list is selective because it reflects my circle of personal acquaintance and correspondence. These are just some of the colleagues that I know personally and through collaboration. It is also limited by my time – the ‘actual’ list is much longer, of course. It is a slice of my network, not a who’s-who list. Neither inclusion nor exclusion imply valuation or ranking.

• Edin Sued Abumanssur (Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo)
• Catherine L. Albanese (University of California, Santa Barbara)
• Greg Alles (McDaniel College)
• Egil Asprem (UCSB, post-doc) @easprem
• Eileen Barker (London School of Economics) [wikipedia]
• Justin L. Barrett (Fuller Theological Seminary) [wikipedia] @JustinLBarrett1
• Gustavo Benavides (Villanova University)
• Courtney Bender (Columbia University) @achtungbender
• Stephen C. Berkwitz (Missouri State University)
• Ulrich Berner (University of Bayreuth)
• Frederick Bird (Concordia University, emiritus)
• Patricia Birman (Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro)
• Willi Braun (University of Alberta)
• Ênio José da Costa Brito (Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo)
• Jorunn J. Buckley (Bowdoin College)
• Joanildo Burrity (Durham University)
• Julie E. Byrne (Hofstra University) @JulieByrneHUCS
• Leonildo Silveira Campos (Universidade Metodista de São Paulo)
• Marcelo Ayres Camurça (Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora)
• Jeremy Carrette (University of Kent)
• Giovanni Casadio (Università degli Studi di Salerno)
• Andrew Chesnut (Virginia Commonwealth University) ‏ @AndrewChesnut1
• David Chidester (University of Cape Town)
• Eugen Ciurtin (Institutul de Istorie a Religiilor al Academiei Românâ)
• Lynda Clarke (Concordia University)
• Emma Cohen (University of Oxford)
• Jean Comaroff (Harvard University)
• Douglas E. Cowan (University of Waterloo) [wikipedia]
• Harold Coward (University of Victoria, ret.)
• Deidre Helen Crumbley (North Carolina State University)
• Eduardo Rodrigues Cruz (Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo)
• Finbarr Curtis (University of Alabama) @FinbarrCurtis
• Carole M. Cusack (University of Sydney)
• Grace Davie (University of Exeter)
• Andrew Dawson (Lancaster University)
• Michel Desjardins (Wilfrid Laurier University)
• Michael Despland (Concordia University, ret.)
• Francisco Díez de Velasco (Universidad de La Laguna)
• Lorenzo DiTommaso (Concordia University)
• Wendy Doniger (University of Chicago) [wikipedia]
• Luís Henrique Dreher (Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora)
• Daniel Dubuisson (Université de Lille 3) [wikipedia]
• Martha L. Finch (Missouri State University)
• Paul Freston (Wilfrid Laurier University)
• Michel Gardaz (University of Ottawa)
• Armi Geertz (Aarhus University)
• Terry F. Godlove, Jr. (Hofstra University)
• Gregory Price Grieve (University of North Carolina Greensboro)@gpgrieve
• Silas Guerriero (Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo)
• Rosalind I. J. Hackett (University of Tennessee)
• Olav Hammer (University of Southern Denmark)
• Wouter J. Hanegraaff (University of Amsterdam) [wikipedia] @WJHanegraaff
• Graham Harvey (Open University)
• Michael Hawley (Mount Royal University)
• Sian Hawthorne (School of Oriental and African Studies)@Pomegranate101
• Marsha Hewitt (University of Toronto)
• Titus Hjelm (University College London) @TitusHjelm
• Michael Houseman (CEMAf – Centre d’études des mondes africains)
• Arnaldo Érico Huff Júnior (Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora)
• Aaron W. Hughes (University of Rochester)
• Julie Ingersoll (University of North Florida) @julieingersoll
• Jeppe Sinding Jensen (Aarhus University)
• Debra Jensen [1953-2012] (Mount Royal University)
• Tim Jensen (University of Southern Denmark)
• Paul C. Johnson (University of Michigan)
• Norma Joseph (Concordia University)
• Morny Joy (University of Calgary)
• Darlene Juschka (University of Regina)
• Mary Keller (University of Wyoming)
• Stephen Kent (University of Alberta)
• Chae Young Kim (Sogang University)
• Richard King (University of Kent) @RichKing66
• Hans G. Kippenberg (Jacobs University)
• Pamela Klassen (University of Toronto)
• Kim Knott (Lancaster University)
• Frank Korom (Boston University)
• Volkhard Krech ‏ (Ruhr University) @vwkrech
• Jens Kreinath (Wichita State University)
• Marc P. Lalonde (Concordia University)
• Denis O. Lamoureux (University of Alberta)
• Francis Landy (University of Alberta)
• Gerardo Martí ‏ (Davidson College) @praxishabitus
• Craig Martin ‏(St. Thomas Aquinas College) @cmartinrel
• Luther H. Martin (University of Vermont)
• Ruth Mas (University of Colorado-Boulder)
• Tomoko Masuzawa (University of Michigan)
• Dawne McCance (University of Manitoba)
• Arthur McCalla (Mount Saint Vincent University)
• Robert N. McCauley (Emory University)
• Russell T. McCutcheon (University of Alabama) [wikipedia]@McCutcheonSays
• J. Gordon Melton (Baylor University)
• David Morgan (Duke University)
• Lísias Nogueira Negrão (Universidade de São Paulo)
• Mary Jo Neitz (University of Missouri)
• Brian Nichols (Mount Royal University)
• Michiaki Okuyama (Nanzen Institute for Religion and Culture)
• Oyeronke Olademo (University of Ilorin)
• Michael Oppenheim (Concordia University)
• Leslie Orr (Concordia University)
• Robert A. Orsi (Northwestern University) [wikipedia]
• William Paden (University of Vermont)
• Susan Palmer (Dawson College) [wikipedia]
• Christopher Partridge (Lancaster University)
• Emily Pierini (University of Bristol)
• Eddy Plasquy (KU Leuven)
• S. Brent Plate (Hamilton College) @splate1
• Luiz Felipe Pondé (Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo)
• Michael Pye (University of Marburg)
• Ilkka Pyysiäinen (Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies)
• José J. Queiroz (Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo)
• Bryan S. Rennie (Westminster College)
• Dario Paulo Barrera Rivera (Universidade Metodista de São Paulo)
• Ira Robinson (Concordia University)
• Wade Clark Roof (University of California, Santa Barbara)
• Maria José F. Rosado-Nunes (Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo)
• Mikael Rothstein (University of Copenhagen) [wikipedia]
• Tom Ryba (Purdue University)
• Bettina Schmidt (University of Wales Trinity Saint David)
• Robert Segal (University of Aberdeen)
• Susumu Shimazono (University of Tokyo)
• Edward Slingerland (University of British Columbia)
• Afonso Maria Ligorio Soares (Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo)
• Sandra Duarte de Souza (Universidade Metodista de São Paulo)
• Michael Stausberg (University of Bergen) [wikipedia] @MiStausberg
• Ivan Strenski (University of California, Riverside)
• Randall Styers (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
• Margarita M. W. Suarez (Meredith College)
• Winnifred F. Sullivan (Indiana University, Bloomington)
• Håkon Tandberg (Ph.D. cand., University of Bergen) @hakontandberg
• Ann Taves (University of California, Santa Barbara)
• Bron Taylor (University of Florida) [wikipedia] @BronTaylor
• Faustino Luiz Couto Teixeira (Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora)
• David Thurfjell (Södertörn University) [wikipedia]
• Mihaela Timuş (Institutul de Istorie a Religiilor al Academiei Românâ)
• Renée de la Torre Castellanos (Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social [CIESAS])
• Thomas Tweed (University of Texas at Austin) @tomtwe
• Einar Thomassen (University of Bergen) [wikipedia]
• Paul-François Tremlett (The Open University) @paulftremlett
• Frank Usarski (Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo)
• João Edênio Reis Valle (Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo)
• Manuel A. Vásquez (University of Florida)
• Kocku von Stuckrad (University of Groningen) [wikipedia] @KvStuckrad
• Tisa Wenger (Yale Divinity School)
• Donald Wiebe (University of Toronto)
• Melissa M. Wilcox (Whitman College)
• Robert Yelle (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)