About the Journal

Notes on the compilation of Journal of the Study on Religion and History (JSRH)

In the current disciplinary structure of religion and history, the former is placed under the first-level discipline of philosophy, and there is no categorization of the history of religion under the first-level discipline of history. However, in actual research, the intersection and overlap between the two is obvious. The Department of History at Shanghai University and the Center for the Study of Religion and Chinese Society at Shanghai University have been working together with scholars at home and abroad on the study of religion and history. At present, the field of research has gradually expanded from the history of Protestant Christianity to the study of Catholicism and other religious fields. In the context of today's great integration of disciplines, we also hope to draw on the theories and methods of different disciplines, such as sociology, psychology, and political science, to promote the study of religion and history. To this end, the Center for the Study of Religion and Society at Shanghai University is launching the “Religion and History Series” to provide a forum for interested researchers, especially young scholars, to publish their results and to witness the continuous development of the study of religion and history.

 

The format of the journal is as follows:

This series contains thematic studies on Chinese religion and history, as well as a collection of related essays.
The journal accepts introductory and research book reviews of domestic and foreign works on Chinese religion.
This series accepts academic reviews and conference reviews on Chinese religion and history from home and abroad.
The journal accepts translations of foreign works on Chinese religious studies.
The annotation format of this series of journals adopts the annotation format of the Journal of Historical Studies.
The anonymous peer review system is adopted.

Center for the Study of Religion and Chinese Society, Shanghai University

2013

JSRH is jointly edited and published by the Center of Christianity and China in Los Angeles, USA, and the Center for the Study of Religion and Chinese Society, Shanghai University, China. 

Aims and Scope: JSRH aims to provide an academic platform for the study of religion and history, to promote interdisciplinary research on religion and history through the publication of high-quality academic research papers, and to promote the theoretical innovation and development of the study of religion, the historical study of religion, the sociology of religion, the anthropology of religion, the economics of religion, the ethics of religion, and other related researches on the basis of synthesizing the world's as well as China's religious materials and fields, so as to provide a theoretical foundation for the enhancement of research in the humanities and social sciences and for responding to the real issues. 
 
The journal welcomes academic papers related to religion, especially those that synthesize and apply humanities and social sciences methods to interdisciplinary research on religion and history; the word count is not limited.

Keywords: Religion, History, Social Science of Religion, Religion, History of Religion, Sociology of Religion, Anthropology of Religion, Economics of Religion, Ethics of Religion, Theoretical Innovation in Humanities and Social Sciences.

Format: JSRH adopts the Chicago annotation style; title, abstract, keywords, body, conclusion, footnotes, and references are required. Article templates are available.

JSRH is  an Open Access and all articles are published under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.