This journal has ceased (2018).
The Journal of Religious and Political Practice is a peer reviewed, interdisciplinary journal which offers a global and inclusive perspective on religion and politics. Taking ‘practice’ as its primary focus it promotes the discussion of organizations, parties, traditions, institutions, ideas, physical spaces, and objects that have political and religious significance: exploring religion and politics, not just as ideologies or belief systems, but as rituals, programs, mobilizations, and practices embodied in everyday activities, institutions, and structures.
Incorporating research articles that debate and analyze issues such as secularization, globalization, the post-secular, religious reform, media, intra- and inter-religious dialogues, power and authority, migration, citizenship, national identity, pilgrimages, violence and peace, and ecological movements, the journal aims to invigorate debate and offer new themes and directions for future research. It welcomes both qualitative and quantitative articles and is open to different methodologies from survey analysis to ethnographic studies. It will also publish thematic interviews with key scholars and review articles.
The journal welcomes contributions from the fields of political anthropology, sociology, political theory, geography, media studies, postcolonial studies, religious studies, international relations, critical conflict/terrorism studies and comparative history.
A promising new journal, The Journal of Religious and Political Practice (JRPP) will give an important focus to the many interconnections between religion and politics now being explored by scholars around the world.
Talal Asad
Distinguished Professor of Anthropology
City University of New York
An urgent intellectual and collective concern of our age is the appearance of public religions all around the late modern world. Public religions differ in theology, social temperament, and political ambition — but their implications for citizenship and pluralist co-existence within and between societies are everywhere profound. I can think of no new journal more timely and compelling in topics and ambition than the JRPP. I celebrate its appearance — and applaud the editors for a journal mission and vision second to none.
Robert Hefner
Director, Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs
Boston University
A journal whose idea has long since come, JRPP breaks new ground in relating articles on religion and politics to concrete practices rather than simply focusing on belief systems. Think Max Weber on Puritanism and Confucianism for economic practices, and imagine what might emerge under the direction of this creative global editorial board.
Donald N. Levine
Peter B. Ritzma Professor of Sociology Emeritus
The University Of Chicago
The Journal of Religious and Political Practice is an important initiative for fresh scholarship that has come of age during the process of conceptual de-centering of the West. With its team of a dynamic, diverse board of editors and robust intellectual horizon, JRPP will become a key venue for scholarly debates on religion and politics, in ‘West’ and ‘non-West’ alike.
Nivedita Menon
Professor of Political Theory
Jawaharlal Nehru University
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