Aim
The Journal of Digital Religion focuses on advancing critical scholarship on how digital technologies—including social media, mobile applications, artificial intelligence, algorithmic systems, and immersive media—reshape religious beliefs, practices, authority, and ethical reasoning across multiple faith traditions. Rooted in the Global South, JDR centers research perspectives, epistemologies, and lived experiences from Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America, while remaining open to contributions from all regions. The JDR unites technology and religious studies as core disciplines to examine digital life across multiple faith traditions.
Scope
The journal welcomes original articles based on empirical, theoretical, critical, and interdisciplinary research that offer significant epistemological, methodological, or policy-oriented contributions to the study of religion in digital environments. JDR foregrounds perspectives from Islam, Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism, indigenous spiritualities, and non-affiliated traditions, promoting multi-faith, context-sensitive, and empirically grounded digital religion scholarship.
It encourages interdisciplinary dialogue across religious studies, theology, digital humanities, media and communication studies, psychology, computer science, sociology, philosophy of technology, law, and bioethics. The scope of the journal includes, but is not limited to:
Emerging Issues
The journal also prioritizes emerging issues in digital religion, particularly those examining the transformation of religious authority, human agency, moral responsibility, and theological imagination in response to next-generation technologies, including:
