Journal of Religious Movements (JRM) is a peer-reviewed, open-access, interdisciplinary academic journal dedicated to the study of religious movements across historical, social, political, cultural, and transnational contexts. The journal provides a scholarly platform for research on how religious movements emerge, organize, circulate, transform, negotiate authority, and interact with broader structures of society, state, economy, media, and global politics.

JRM welcomes theoretically informed and empirically grounded studies of religious movements from all regions of the world and across different religious traditions. It is particularly interested in works that examine religious movements not merely as doctrinal expressions, but as dynamic social formations shaped by authority, identity, ritual, charisma, institutionalization, contestation, mobility, digital circulation, and public engagement.

We encourage contributions from scholars in religious studies, sociology, anthropology, history, political science, Islamic studies, theology, law, area studies, media studies, and related disciplines. By bringing together comparative, historical, ethnographic, textual, and theoretical approaches, JRM aims to advance the academic understanding of religious movements as key actors in shaping contemporary and historical societies.