Journal of Religious Movements

Aim

Journal of Religious Movements (JRM) aims to publish high-quality, peer-reviewed research on religious movements in local, national, regional, transnational, and global contexts. The journal seeks to become an international forum for critical, comparative, and interdisciplinary scholarship on the formation, development, transformation, and public significance of religious movements.

The main aims of the journal are:

To advance scholarly understanding of religious movements as historical, social, political, cultural, and theological phenomena. 

To provide a rigorous academic platform for empirical, theoretical, and comparative studies of religious movements across different religious traditions and geographical regions. 

To encourage research that situates religious movements within broader debates on authority, identity, globalization, media, migration, conflict, peacebuilding, gender, law, state power, and social change. 

To promote international scholarly dialogue by publishing works from diverse academic contexts, especially studies that connect local religious movements with broader regional or global dynamics. 

To support methodologically robust research using ethnography, historical analysis, discourse analysis, textual analysis, comparative study, political sociology, anthropology of religion, digital religion studies, and other relevant approaches. 

To contribute to the development of religious studies and social sciences by examining religious movements beyond normative, doctrinal, or purely descriptive frameworks.

Scope

Journal of Religious Movements (JRM) welcomes original research articles, review articles, and critical essays on religious movements across different traditions, regions, and historical contexts. The journal particularly invites contributions on the following areas:

1. Theories and Methods in the Study of Religious Movements
   Conceptual, methodological, and theoretical studies on religious movements, including social movement theory, sociology of religion, anthropology of religion, religious authority, charisma, institutionalization, and collective identity. 
2. Historical and Contemporary Transformations of Religious Movements
   Studies on the emergence, development, transformation, decline, and institutionalization of religious movements in both historical and contemporary contexts. 
3. Transnational, Global, and Diasporic Religious Movements
   Research on religious movements that operate across borders, including missionary networks, daʿwah movements, evangelical movements, Sufi orders, diaspora communities, global spiritual networks, and other transnational religious formations. 
4. Religion, Politics, State, and Public Life
   Articles examining the relationship between religious movements and political authority, law, citizenship, nationalism, democracy, public policy, social regulation, conflict, peacebuilding, and humanitarian engagement. 
5. Media, Digital Religion, and Religious Circulation
   Studies on how religious movements use media, digital platforms, online preaching, religious influencers, virtual communities, and transnational communication networks to circulate ideas, authority, and practices. 
6. Identity, Gender, Ritual, and Everyday Piety
   Research on gender, family, youth, leadership, conversion, ritual practices, devotional cultures, moral discipline, religious subjectivity, and everyday lived religion within religious movements. 
7. Minority, Indigenous, New, and Alternative Religious Movements
   Studies on minority religions, indigenous spiritual movements, new religious movements, alternative spiritualities, syncretic formations, marginalized communities, and contested religious identities.