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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 Islamic and Religious Studies (ISSN 2519-7118 [Online]) Pakistan: English, Urdu, Arabic
- 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
- Temenos – Nordic Journal of Comparative Religion (ISSN 2342-7256) Finland: 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)
- 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
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)