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The Journal of Religion
Overview
The Journal of Religion is an academic journal published by the University of Chicago Press. The journal "embraces all areas of theology (biblical, historical, ethical, and constructive) as well as other types of religious studies (literary, social, psychological, and philosophical)." It was first published in 1882 as The Hebrew Student, then The Old Testament Student in 1883, next The Old and New Testament Student in 1889, then The Biblical World in 1893, and The American Journal of Theology in 1897. Finally, it became The Journal of Religion in 1921.
It is published quarterly and is issued by the University of Chicago Divinity School. In March 2026 the chief editors were Sarah Hammerschlag, Willemien Otten, and Brook Ziporyn.
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At the beginning of this work we announced that the religion whose study we were taking up contained within it the most characteristic elements of the religious life. The exactness of this proposition may now be verified.
Émile Durkheim, The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life
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By this central being the outward and the inward, past and present and to come, are made one. And as already indicated, Religion, emerging, as it does, from social man, from mind ethical, will retain traces of the two _foci_ in society: the individual subjectivity and the objective community. Retain them however only as traces, which still show in the actually envisaged reconciliation. For that is what religion does…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegel's Philosophy of Mind
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Part of Religious naturalism.