Critical Research on Religion

Aims & Scope

Critical Research on Religion is a peer-reviewed, international journal focusing on the development of a critical theoretical framework and its application to research on religion.

It provides a common venue for those engaging in critical analysis in theology and religious studies, as well as for those who critically study religion in the other social sciences and humanities such as philosophy, sociology, anthropology, psychology, history, and literature.

A critical approach examines religious phenomena according to both their positive and negative impacts.

It draws on methods including but not restricted to the critical theory of the Frankfurt School, Marxism, post-structuralism, feminism, psychoanalysis, ideological criticism, post-colonialism, ecocriticism, and queer studies.

The journal seeks to enhance an understanding of how religious institutions and religious thought may simultaneously serve as a source of domination and progressive social change.

It attempts to understand the role of religion within social and political conflicts.

These conflicts are often based on differences of race, class, ethnicity, region, gender, and sexual orientation – all of which are shaped by social, political, and economic inequity.

The journal encourages submissions of theoretically guided articles on current issues as well as those with historical interest using a wide range of methodologies including qualitative, quantitative, and archival.

It publishes articles, review essays, book reviews, thematic issues, symposia, and interviews.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	0.5
2024	0.70

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.248

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	16

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	18659

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	62

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Arts and Humanities, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• An enchanted modernity: Making sense of Latin America’s religious landscape

  Citation: 44

  Authors: Gustavo, Catalina, Hugo, Néstor

• Religion and media: A critical review of recent developments

  Citation: 38

  Authors: David

• The will to religion: Obligatory religious citizenship

  Citation: 36

  Authors: Lori G.

• The paradox and tension of moral claims: Evangelical Christianity, the politicization and globalization of sexual politics in sub-Saharan Africa

  Citation: 32

  Authors: Kapya

• Critical religion and critical research on religion: Religion and politics as modern fictions

  Citation: 29

  Authors: Timothy

• The gods of institutional life: Weber’s value spheres and the practice of polytheism

  Citation: 25

  Authors: Roger

• Visibility, transparency and gossip: How did the religion of some (Muslims) become the public concern of others?

  Citation: 24

  Authors: Valérie

• Critical approaches to religion in China

  Citation: 24

  Authors: Michael

• Secular shadows: African, immanent, post-colonial

  Citation: 23

  Authors: Matthew

• Pastoral counter-conducts: Religious resistance in Foucault’s genealogy of Christianity

  Citation: 19

  Authors: Matthew

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