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. The JDR unites technology and religious studies as core disciplines to examine digital life across multiple faith traditions.

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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, digital religious authority and institutional transformation; religious identity, community, and platform cultures; artificial intelligence, algorithms, and religious life; digital religious psychology and measurement; immersive technologies, virtual worlds, and digital afterlives; digital ethics, surveillance, and religious freedom; and religion and next-generation technologies. Manuscripts that fall outside the journal's aims and scope will not be considered for peer review.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, digital religious authority and institutional transformation; religious identity, community, and platform cultures; artificial intelligence, algorithms, and religious life; digital religious psychology and measurement; immersive technologies, virtual worlds, and digital afterlives; digital ethics, surveillance, and religious freedom; and religion and next-generation technologies. Manuscripts that fall outside the journal's aims and scope will not be considered for peer review.