Focus & Scope
Journal of Religion and Decoloniality (JRD) is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal committed to advancing critical scholarship at the intersection of religion, spirituality, and decolonial thought. The journal explores how religious traditions, theological frameworks, and spiritual practices are implicated in, and can respond to, histories and structures of coloniality.
JRD seeks to foreground perspectives that challenge dominant epistemologies and uplift marginalized, indigenous communities and subaltern ways of knowing. It is particularly interested in contributions that interrogate the entanglements of religion with power, race, gender, and global systems of domination, as well as those that offer emancipatory, decolonial alternatives.
We welcome submissions of original articles that address topics including, but not limited to:
- Decolonial theologies and ethics as ongoing processes
- Religion and resistance in colonial and postcolonial contexts
- Indigenous spiritualities and cosmologies
- Coloniality of religious institutions, doctrines, and rituals
- Religion, race injustice, and epistemic violence
- Feminist and queer perspectives to decolonial religion
- Integration of environmental humanities and decolonial discourses
- Reclaiming religious textual heritages in colonial collections
- Decolonial approach to health, traditional medicine, and healing practices
- Digital humanities, media, and decolonization
JRD encourages contributions from scholars, practitioners, and activist-intellectuals, particularly from the Global South and other historically marginalized communities.
