Scholarly articles can be found in peer-reviewed journals. This page includes:
Scholarly Journals
Browse and search scholarly journals to find articles about your topic. Scholarly journals:
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OneSearch is a helpful tool which appears as a search bar on the library home page. It can take you directly to a variety of resources, including scholarly articles, books, videos, news articles, chapters, and more. The video below will help you get started.
Recommended Journals
The following journals will help you get started with your research. You may find others helpful aw well.
Religion and Gender
Journal of feminist studies in religion
Provides a forum for discussion among women and men of differing feminist perspectives as well as highlighting feminist scholarship in religion.
Journal of women and religion
Focuses on transformation and theological education to stop sexism against women.
Religion & gender
Explores the relation, confrontation and intersection of gender and religion, taking into account the multiple and changing manifestations of religion in diverse social and cultural contexts.
Religion and Science
The International journal for the psychology of religion
Presents articles covering a variety of important topics, such as the social psychology of religion, religious development, conversion, religious experience, religion and social attitudes and behavior, religion and mental health, and psychoanalytic and other theoretical interpretations of religion.
Journal of religion and health
Explores contemporary modes of religious thought with emphasis on its relevance to current medical and psychological research.
Mental health, religion & culture
Publishes empirically-based work exploring the relationships between mental health and aspects of religion and culture, and discussing conceptual and philosophical aspects.
Religion, brain & behavior
Provides a vehicle for the advancement of current biological approaches to understanding religion at every level from brain to behavior.
Religion and Sexuality
Sexuality & Culture
Provides a forum for the analysis of ethical, cultural, psychological, social, and political issues related to sexual relationships and sexual behavior.
Theology & sexuality
Provides a forum for publication of new theological work on issues of sexuality and gender.
Religion and Social Issues (general)
Culture and religion
Promotes critical investigation into all aspects of the study of religion and culture, particularly among scholars with an innovative and multidisciplinary focus.
Interdisciplinary Journal for Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society (Online)
Discusses the influence of religions on political, cultural and spiritual dynamics in globalized societies.
Politics and religion
Covers all aspects of the relationship between politics and religion around the world.
Religion and human rights
Provides a forum for the discussion of issues which are of crucial importance and which have global reach. It covers the points of contact, interactions, conflicts and reconciliation inherent to the relationship between teachings, principles, laws and practice of religions or beliefs on the one hand, and modern international and regional systems for the promotion and protection of human rights on the other hand.
Religion & American Culture
Embracing a diversity of methodological approaches and theoretical perspectives, this publication explores the interplay between religion and other spheres of American culture.
Religion and Violence
Journal of religion & abuse
Brings broad coverage of physical and sexual abuse issues from a religious perspective in an international, interdisciplinary and interreligious context.